Video: Geometric painting by Simon Birch. Paintings of an artist suffering from cancer
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Everyone copes with a serious illness in their own way: one has a desire to see every last one of his relatives and give them his things, another wakes up a passion for travel, the third has a brutal appetite and a desire to make as many purchases as possible … British artist of Armenian origin by name Simon Birch, now based in Hong Kong, was diagnosed in 2007: cancer in a rare form. Since then, he has been painting these geometric pictures, colorful and very strange. Armed with a brush and palette knife, Simon Birch paints on canvas, applying paint in sloppy wide strokes, as if trying to brush aside what lies ahead. But by some miracle, this technique allows him to maintain realism in his strange geometric paintings. Everything is important in them - both form, and colors, and images, and emotions …
The series of colorful geometric paintings is called "Laughing With a Mouth Full of Blood". The name is not pleasant, but the artist's life is not easy. Probably, his paintings serve for him as a kind of healing art therapy, showing the strengths of his character, not letting him lose heart and brightening up everyday life.
Simon Birch was born in 1969 in the UK. At one time he received a master's degree in fine arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. You can get acquainted with the work of this author on his website.
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