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Artist Statement for Carl Hodges
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My art is produced in mediums such as: Watercolour, Charcoal, Oil and Pastels. I have exhibited at the Art of England Art Show - you can read about me and my works in the June 2006 issue. At the moment I am completing abstract works that combines sculpture and abstract art but also a personal piece - a large oil painting of Notre Dame in Paris where I proposed to my beautiful fiancee.
Landscape Blog
Landscapes are not just a collection of trees breaking the dawn sky in Wales. They are not just a set of jagged and sharp rock formations looking west to Isle of Skye. Landscapes are deeper than that, deeper than just conscious shapes your mind follows as you contemplate a landscape piece. Landscapes are part of you and I and partly are what makes us who we are. Without landscapes there is no location and without that you are lost with memories of only people. Location and places provide a sense of belonging in the world we live. And belonging depends on memories of experience that very much includes places and landscapes. It doesn’t matter if you are creating a landscape of skyscrapers or a thick wintry forest scene. Any landscape has meaning for someone somewhere and it is compelling to make pieces and to witness the reaction on a viewer’s face when they associate something they have done, a memory, with the landscape they are viewing.
Abstract Blog
Abstract works are such a challenge and can be very stimulating both emotionally and intellectually. I think generating the right emotions from an abstract painting can be one of the most rewarding experiences for an artist. To add intellectual stimulation can provide a real mix of emotions that can be either support or even oppose an intellectual aspect. For example, an art piece without any real life representation can generate emotions of relaxation using just harmonic colours whereas other abstract pieces allows an individual to realize there are distinct real life objects or forms of association such as a vase resting on a table.
I live in Newcastle-under-Lyme in Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire, UK with my family and two crazy tom cats.
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