Artist Hamish Blakely
Universally-applauded
contemporary figurative artist, Hamish Blakely once saw the world only in
monochrome. The would-be/future artist’s black and white existence was only in
the 2D form, thankfully as whenever he turned his hand to art when of a
youthful disposition, chances are it would be rendered in pencil and charcoal
and amid an equally flat color and surface area. But then one day he
experimented with a life outside of his tried and tested monochrome comfort
zone when tackling the portraiture subject of his very own father. Adding color
via paint to his dad’s picture, Blakely was clearly taken aback by the results.
From this point everything changed as Blakely immediately fell in love with
paints. He still sees drawing as the original expression, but appreciates that
to capture it fully he must introduce color swatches to the pictorial equation
so as to grant it life beyond the blacks and greyscales. Periods of higher
educational study at both Wimbledon School of Art and Kingston University
helped and encouraged him to explore with color further and it’s fair to say
that he’s never looked back. From this juncture painting usurped the need to
draw completely to Blakely’s agile, creative mind, and with almost immediate
effect he withdrew his pencils from the thick of the creative action.
Preparatory-wise and any other interactions.
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