Artist Information:
Mike Aitken Pseudonym Lago
Maire L'Evescault,
France
Member Since: Aug 2002
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Artist Statement:
THE BEGINNING.....'A BRUSH IN
MY HEAD'
BORN October 1941 SCOTTISH
ARTIST LAGO...............
47 years ago after spending 2
happy weeks painting a
landscape for my final art
exam at school my art teacher,
a very good one, looked at my
work and after some time said
''Michael what on earth is
this, the people are just
blobs in the distance, it
isn't real, it has no detail,
not at all what I expected
from you, I am very
disapointed''.
His remark has stayed with me
ever since and some years
later after continuing to
paint animals, flowers,
landscapes etc. selling them
to friends and associates, I
came to appreciate one artist
in particular, Lowry and his
famous 'matchstick men'. I
often wondered what my teacher
would have said to him, blobs,
matchsticks? That sentence
helped me understand that all
great artists are 'one-offs'
Of course I also respect
Dhali, Picasso, Elisabeth
Frink, Francis Bacon, Roald
Dahl, Van Gough, Matisse, etc.
etc., the list is endless but
I prefer my own work! In fact
I don't normally like looking
at other artists work because
I believe it is inevitable it
will influence me and have
striven for ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
ENGLAND
1965 The Fish Cellar, Hythe,
Kent
1971 Studio Red Rose, Golders
Green, London
1972 The Euston Gallery,
London
1973 Cross Street Gallery,
Islington, London
1993 The Art Studio, Bodmin,
Cornwall
1977 MOST MAJOR WORK OF ART
COMMISSIONED BY THE
Halifax Building Society,
Sevenoaks, Kent
A MURAL 2.5 x ...
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Mike Aitken Pseudonym Lago's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Mike Aitken Pseudonym Lago's Portfolio. Browse Aitken Pseudonym Lago's body of work: THE BEGINNING.....'A BRUSH IN MY HEAD'
BORN October 1941 SCOTTISH ARTIST LAGO...............
47 years ago after spending 2 happy weeks painting a landscape for my final art exam at school my art teacher, a very good one, looked at my work and after some time said ''Michael what on earth is this, the people are just blobs in the distance, it isn't real, it has no detail, not at all what I expected from you, I am very disapointed''.
His remark has stayed with me ever since and some years later after continuing to paint animals, flowers, landscapes ... |
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