Gwyn Brookes ~ The Artist

Gwyn Brookes ~ The Artist

Art of all kinds is something I enjoy greatly .. and I paint, therefore I am an Artist. I suppose as I have sold pieces to complete strangers I am qualified as a professional Artist, however, I have no real formal art training except for the usual stuff completed at high school.

The graphic work I create on the computer is realized using a WACOM Intuos graphics tablet and pen - well, thank goodness we are not limited to the confines of the mouse any longer - it's such an unnatural feeling for an Artist to hold this flat ovum and draw with it, how can you really express a brush stroke with something akin to a rock? If you really want your art to flow, you need a pen and tablet!

 

I use several different graphic packages depending on the effect I want to create, my favorites are Fractal Design Painter and the Adobe products Photoshop and ImageReady. I much prefer these types of software compared to the vector based products, although, when the need arises I also use those!
Tribal or primitive art is something that interests me greatly. The aboriginal art found in Australia is soothing in its simplistic style of lines and dots, this is a style that I like to apply to a different type of subject as for the lizard shown here.

 

I am also interested in what may be termed as "ethnic" or "island" art where the subject matter is of an African or Caribbean feel, as in the piece below Invisible in the Corn, developed using Fractal Design Painter software:

 

 

The hidden temples in Asia are also a source of inspiration for me. The theories as to how the different religions and beliefs spread to seemingly inaccessible parts of the globe at a time before we thought distance travel was possible is also fascinating. In particular the temples in Cambodia hidden by growth of the jungle over them I find mysterious and beautiful.

There are many things in this world that we are only just starting to understand, and many more that we will probably never have the answers to.

space - blind!

        

And these two ladies are some imaginary aliens created with Adobe Photoshop using layers and blending.