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Matt34564
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[2013-01-13 22:31:00 +0000 UTC]
(United Kingdom)
# Statistics
Favourites: 5273; Deviations: 253; Watchers: 389
Watching: 1008; Pageviews: 29814; Comments Made: 6119; Friends: 1008
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Alexis HardingFavorite movies: Thats to hard of a question for me
Favorite TV shows: the original twilight zone & x-files
Favorite bands / musical artists: editors,joy division,FellSilent,death,decapitated,enter shikari,rings of saturn & rush
Favorite books: beauty in decay
Favorite games: Dead Space
Tools of the Trade: Painting
Other Interests: making art inside abandoned places
# About me
my website www.matthewtonyrussell.co.uk/follow me on facebook www.facebook.com/pages/Matt/34…
The passage of time is evident through cracked concrete and subsiding structures and this instability is further reflected through distortions as buildings are adopted for uses often abandoned to their initial intention. Each painting starts at an abandoned location, often institutionalised buildings, then the paintings are built through layers of techniques which rely on chance and control, such as pouring, smearing and the use of dispersing of paint. This chaotic process is then layered with more considered painterly responses mirroring the flux, fragile equilibrium of architecture and nature within each site. This idea and processes carries on during the making of these paintings, by leaving them on site for several days or weeks. During the absence of myself and by allowing the paintings to be open to the environment of the abandoned locations, over a course of time, allows the painting processes to carry on during the absence by allowing this passage of time and flux to affect the works. This occurs during weather changes and the surroundings of the locations, due to its forever decaying structure. Within these paintings I want the associations of the places to be present within each piece; by naming them after each location, weather condition and date from which they were made, to help with the connection between the processes and place. I am interested in the idea of how we project ideas onto inanimate objects and unused buildings or interior spaces can become the personification of a danger or threat that we feel may be prevalent within it. I try to link this idea with the paintings, by dissecting sections of the places and painting from them in an abstract language. The intent is to develop an abstract visual vocabulary by doing this, using an innate sense of relationships, to creating something new yet with a sense of subconscious familiarity that are controlled within the space of a painting. They don't try to depict reality, they rely more on colour, contrast and texture to convey my feelings and make things visible to the viewer in some respects.
# Comments
Comments: 2006
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good life and happy birthday good wishes dear friend... ..
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many good wishes for a peaceful day and a lot of happiness......
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Hey, good afternoon, Matt -- and a happy birthday shout out to you from California. First of all wishing for you a joyous holiday season -- in whatever way and with whomever you celebrate it -- and a year ahead of peaceful skies and creative inspiration.
Cheers and best regards,
Ed
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Happy birthday and enjoy your great day
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Thanks for the fav and the watch! I like your art a lot, very inspirating!
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Your welcome and thank you also
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Hello Matt ^^
Thank you so much for the watch : it touched me
I wish you a kickass day !!!
Take care
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Your stuff is very very very great ^^
I watch you back
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Thanks so much for the faves and watch. Your gallery is awesome!
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your welcome and thank you also
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Thank you for the tremendous amount of love
you have shown me. All the favs you have
given are much appreciated and I really am
happy to see that you enjoyed my artwork.
*explodes from happiness*
(Be scared of the Memes...be very scared... cause they are not of my
doing...*whisper* BEWARE!!!!)
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Thank you so much for your kind words
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i am good thanks how are ?
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many thanks for your faves, comments and the watch, you have been spoiling me!
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