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Tori’s Art Statement
I’d much sooner you gave my art a look than listened to me explain it – I’ve a website for that, and a blog, overflowing with all that wordy, flowery, self-analytical nonsense. If it’s answers that you’re after – I’ve got an email address for that too. Ask me and I’ll answer. I want my work to involve people. If the idea keeps on burning, it’ll ignite other fires elsewhere and the creativity spreads, well, like wild-fire. I believe art is there for the sharing, to make connections, to help mend broken lives and empty hearts. I suppose that’s my mission if there’s one that I follow.
Ideas that come to mind find themselves quickly wrestled into submission as acrylics on canvas, given a title and framed. That’s how I like it. I never sketch anything and nothing is meticulously planned. I just start at the start and let it grow as feels best. My laptop usually lends a hand in mocking up a rough guide to where I’m headed. All of my ideas are made-up from parts of my world, of course they are. The drama between my friends, my family, the lasting effect of certain events, my spiritual home of Brighton, hopes, dreams and panic-attacks all provide the sparks. We’re all just separate worlds colliding. Am I quoting a lyric there? Probably. Put your ear to any one of my works and you’re bound to hear something. I couldn’t work without music, it’s the one thing I let influence me totally. This could be why I enjoy collaborating with musicians to create their artwork, or just to mutually inspire. I’ve done this a few times, it’s one of my favourite things to do.
It all comes back to that want to involve people, to make connections, to start something new. It occurs to me now and then when I’m working, that the painting I’m creating is unique, the only one of it’s kind – and how often can you say that about something in your life? It’s personal, it’s my expression, my way of reacting, of making sense, of understanding and of trying to help you understand it too.
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