John Morris
About My Art
I make paintings. Because of my age and background I am a bit of a purist (or old-fashioned). I use oil paint because I always have and because I like it. I like its texture, colour-intensity and smell. I like that it is flexible, it accommodates my mistakes and it takes decades to dry. It's expensive, but so is Champagne and where would we be without that?
I prefer to work on large-ish canvases. I work fairly quickly and without hours of student-like preparatory fiddling (I suppose I mean I'm "spontaneous") which I believe results in dramatic, highly-coloured work that stands out and speaks for itself. Sometimes I make mistakes which I often over-paint. Can you name an Old Master who didn't do that?
I have dabbled with abstraction but always come back to the figure - I still have a lot to say about the (female) human form and about objects in general. I don't paint with my emotions as such but emotions are sometimes implicit in my paintings. Abstraction aside, my best fit for genre is '(usually decontextualised) contemporary realism'
I like my individual paintings to be stand-alone statements or self-contained ideas, but I am also prone to visual obsession, so I often make several paintings of the same subject matter, be it apples or bare backsides. I'm good at nipples and bums.
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