Hi!
Thank You for your comment ! Actually I have always thought that Im not working enough ..
I found your abstract rope works and some other 3D objects rebellious and interesting , as something from opposition to practical world .
All the best from fonarik!

Hi there Rob,

you mention on your page that you would like your work to interest people more - or reference to that. Your work interests me very much. I love your piece Figurative Landscape but would like to know more about how it what inspired it? Look forward to hear your input! Do tell.

Best from Luke

Hello Rob,

Hope you're doing great.
I've updated my website and since I know you like to comment constructively about art or paintings or whatever it is I am making... I'd like to invite you to visit my website and let me know what you think of my new work.. it'd be much appreciated..
Bests,
Rogelio

Cheers Rob..... Have a good one!

lol... not at all Rob:
it's just that at that time I was very busy and didn't have the time to get back to you... my apologies. Your comments are more than welcomed since they were very constructive...

I do agree where you comment about the contradiction of our typical perception of things... I do in fact intent to disturb and instigate people... not just for the fun of doing so, but to somehow make them react to them in a different manner. To me art is about making noise to catch ppl's attention and tell them a different story other than the ones they already know... if I want to wake you up I need to shake you... I don't just want you to open your eyes... I want you to observe and act.

Lately I've taken as a subject the human face because I guess I'm trying to speak to ourselves... as if the message was for the character itself. And lately I've been painting in smaller scales.. that's why a more painterly quality has been added to them.. some people like them better.. some prefer my previous work. I don't like either one... funny but true... I don't like my work... in every piece I create there's always something missing... and my love for it suddenly disappears, as I don't like either what I end-up painting... the subjects... they're always sad or angry, in pain or in desperation... so I decided to include some "happy" or optimistic materials and colors to my work to try to find a counterbalance to it... I'll show you some of these pieces when they're finished; then the trends out there make me doubt a lot about it which make it even worse... but I try not to resist the temptations they create in me and let them influence my work... ... I am working on bringing out more the imagery, as you suggest, and I totally agree with you on that... I just wanted to take it easy on that as I was trying to create an environment of isolation, but I think I found the way to tackle that subject. And yes.. my work will continuously be moving on since I'm very pragmatic... my studio is full of stuff and who knows what can come out of it... it's exiting...



Thanks Rob... please keep talking to me.. I find your comments very helpful and they are highly appreciated.

Not sure yet, we're down to london for xmas, might see if we can 'pop in' on the way back. Really sorry to hear about the studio situation - can't quite bring myself to believe it - doesn't seem possible.....

No not at all amigo.

You were supportive of my sketches when I first joined. That you mentioned Brenelles piece is interesting, as it features the 'spilt paint accident', I have begun pushing that concept a bit further on two new pieces, freeing things up a bit. I will send you something across in a bout two weeks. Best, luke ::~)

Dear Rob,

thanks for taking the time to comment on so many photos!! Appreciated.

Well you have been a tough critic..... Bravo!!

I want to argue your main point. Arbitrary. To some degree you are right - my work is, to a degree, abritrary. The reason is that most of my work is done as a retrospective look at my favourite music - most of which was written in the 1920's. That is the emotion that I breathe and cunjures the images for my work. I set out to recap different styles of art in a retrospective way. HOWEVER.........

I Do make it a point to blend retro techniques with 'action' techniques or simply - forced accidents. The pieces with forced accidents, such as the one you liked or found interesting BRENELLES FTN with the poured white paint mixed in with the subject, bring new energy for me and influence what I sketch, feeding back into what I paint. So you mentioned 'retro' and I answer YES!!! hALLEJUA - bring in the reto by the bucket load - or rather - I think retro can be fertile as memories to trigger a painting, for any painter, then of course as you say the painter has to do the job to pull together a tighness in their work with a technique.

To conclude - I have been selling the collages for 14 years and so my paintings are nothing more and nothing less than extensions of that work. Also I want to say I find your way of working with objects extremely interesting and thinking about doing some wooden sculptures after seeing your work. Best fr Luke

H! I have taken it as a constructive criticism; I always welcome new friends like you,
I believe in everyday learning, it never ends; a journey always from know to unknown one knows some thing and try to keep knowing something more, if not one can not practice.

You are doing fantastic, I have seen your group studio, and how you all established it. Really you have made great efforts, congratulations,

Best regards