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Abstract Art

 

  

 

 Graham Knight Sherring is an artist living and working in Falmouth, Cornwall. He was born in 1952, in a small village in Somerset, England, called North Cadbury. After leaving school he went to study at the Yeovil School of Art before going on to study at the Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall.

 

 

   After leaving college and hitting the real world and finding he had to earn a living, life became a constant battle between doing his painting and earning a living wage. This battle went on for at least the next 10 years before artist decided that earning a living was his priority and painting had to take second place. He never stopped painting in fact all his spare time was taken up doing his art work and visiting art galleries.

 

 

   So at the age of 34 artist Graham Knight Sherring decided to move from Cornwall and went to live in London where there was more work and he was closer to all the art galleries and the art world in general. At this time he thought that if he worked and saved really hard the time would come when he would have enough money to concentrate on his painting full time.

 

 

   Well to cut a long story short, it took him 20 years to achieve his dream, it sounds a long time, but for all those years, in his mind, he was living as an artist he just wasn’t producing the amount of work that he would off liked. Looking back he has no regrets, Graham paints now with so much freedom and peace of mind that he doesn’t have to worry about his paintings being liked, but he hope that they are.. What- ever happens artist will never stop painting, without painting he would be nothing. Graham Knight Sherring was born to paint.

 

 

 

 

 

Art Work

 

 

   Graham’s work is inspired by native art from around the world, and the abstract painters of the 20th century. The simplicity of native decoration and the complexity of abstract art have always held a fascination for him ever since childhood. What is it that makes color and shapes, bring out emotions in your mind.

 

 

   The paintings that he does are all about exploring lines, shapes and color and why presenting them in different ways creates different emotions, in a similar way that instrumental music does. Everyone will have their own thought patterns when listening to music, they will also have similar thoughts when looking at an abstract picture. All Graham tries to do with his pictures is to stimulate those thought patterns.

 

 

   The first thing Graham has to do is create something that is pleasing to the eye, to get the viewer’s attention, then he has to find a way of keeping that attention, using color and shapes and from then on, hopefully he has been stimulated and his own thought patterns will have taken over and of he goes on his own journey.

 

 

   What artist has been doing for the last three years is instead of giving his pictures titles he has numbered them 1-10 etc. so that the viewer can not only go on his own journey with each picture he can also go on a journey from picture to picture, as you would go from chapter to chapter in a book.

 

 

 

 

   

 

When Graham looks at an abstract picture by another artist, the first thing he asks himself is what came first, where did the picture start, was it that line, was it that shape. Then, why that color. You don’t have to ask yourself many questions before you get hooked and of you go in your own thoughts. If you can’t answer any questions when you look at a picture, then that picture is not for you.

 

 

   Being an abstract painter it is so easy to think that you have to paint on large canvases. It is true abstract pictures do seem to work better on a large scale, but then you have the problem of what to do with them, unless they are commission pieces, or end up long term in a gallery, your market is very limited. He likes to think that his work is for everyone to buy no matter what size house they live in. So many people, will go out and buy a print of a large abstract painting to hang in their house, some- times costing hundreds if not thousands of pounds when they should be spending their money on original pieces of art, it would certainly be a better investment.

 

 

   Graham Knight Sherring paints most of his pictures on 3’ by 2’ canvases or multiples off, he wants the general public to get more involved with buying original works of art, he wants to cut out the snobbery that exists around art.

 

 

   Now this leads him on to knowledge of art and prices. You do not have to have any knowledge to know that you like something, weather it is food on a plate or paint on a canvas, knowing that you like something is good enough, you don’t have to justify it, just enjoy it. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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