Video: Painting by Kelsey Brooks, or Meditations of the Microbiologist
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American Kelsey Brooks (Kelsey Brookes) is a microbiologist by training. By his own admission, he learned to draw on his own and mainly "out of curiosity." It is unlikely that the author could even think, having first picked up a brush, that in a few years he would voluntarily leave science in order to become an artist.
Kelsey Brooks explains her style in painting with an educational system that "refuses to teach drawing to people engaged in science." The artist calls each painting a series of "blunders and mistakes" that he cannot control. According to the author, at the beginning of his work he must have an idea about the structure of the future work, but the creative process itself seems to him as a kind of "meditative act", in the course of which even the artist himself cannot interfere. And only, finally, stopping and putting down the brush, Kelsey Brooks finally sees what he managed to create and how much the result coincides with the original plan.
In most of Kelsey Brooks' works, the figure of a person or an animal is central, complemented by abstract forms and text. According to the author, his striking and unusual works were created under the influence of "Hindu and Buddhist deities, exotic animals and sex, as well as mosaics from fragments of rustic American life." The artist believes that it is the oriental religious art that has reached the greatest heights in depicting a person, therefore it is he who is guided by in his work.
Kelsey Brooks was born in 1978 in Denver, Colorado and currently lives and works in San Diego, California. He first showed interest in art in 2002, and in 2005 left science, deciding to devote himself to painting. The author has several solo exhibitions in the USA, as well as participation in group exhibitions in the UK, France, Palestine and Australia.
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