Video: Douglas Walker's blue dreams
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When the deep night falls on the ground, and everyone is peacefully sleeping in their beds, the artist Douglas Walker takes out paints and begins to paint. Made exclusively in blue and white, his paintings resemble snatches of dreams or pipe dreams - romantic, incredible and a little strange.
“I prefer to paint late at night - between midnight and dawn,” says Douglas Walker. - In the dark, all the responsibilities that lie on me during the day fall asleep, and I can get into another world, created by me. This is a great time for painting."
The artist believes that our whole life is very dependent on childhood impressions deposited in our subconscious. For example, in his childhood, Douglas often skipped school, spending long hours watching black and white films: horror, science fiction, music programs - the boy watched everything. This monochrome, according to Douglas Walker, did not leave him in adulthood. His paintings are as two-colored as his beloved TV shows, but the artist replaced the black color with blue.
To create his blue and white paintings, Douglas Walker developed a unique painting technique that includes building his own easels and creating special brushes. With the help of such tools, the artist paints in a "non-linear way": instead of individual strokes with one stroke of the brush, Douglas creates, for example, the trunk and crown of a tree at once. “It seems that the image jumps out from under the brush, like a piece of our subconscious,” explains the author.
“I create my paintings that pose questions to the viewer:“what is this?”,“Where is it?”,“Who is this?” and "when did this happen?" I love the unknown and I hope that my work will awaken the excitement and delight of the discoverers in the viewer,”says Douglas Walker.
Douglas Walker was born in Brockville, Canada and currently lives and works in Toronto. In the early stages of his creative career, the author was engaged in photography and sculpture, but then completely focused on blue and white painting, thanks to which he became widely known.
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