Website

http://www.darkblackart.com

Relationship status

in a relationship

College / University

self taught artist

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Painting, Sculpture

I am...

I’m a self taught artist, all my life I’ve loved to draw paint or create. I remember when I was 18 seeing a friends new tattoo. Immediately I new this was the genre I wanted to work in. So 1987 I apprenticed as a tattoo artist. My mission as a tattoo artist, was to use my artistic skills to help clients express there inner visions on there skin, and mark there rites of passage in a time honoured way. I owned and ran a tattoo studio for many years. In this time I met many fantastic people, who intern enriched my life experience; it was very fulfilling to share in this holistic, shamanic experience with them. Towards the late nineties deep inside of me there were new missions growing that I felt compelled to express, but they were out side of the tattoo genre. So in 1999 I stopped tattooing. I then visited the USA and Canada. While in the USA, I spent time with the Navajo and Hopi tribes. While in Canada I lived and worked with the Huron [Mohawk/Mohican] tribe on their reserve. I feel privileged to have been embraced by these peoples, some of whose traditions, craft skills and mystical healing arts which I now incorporate in my art and my life today. This intern was the catalyst for my mission of carving the crystal skulls [The Sedona crystal Skull, the Stonehenge skull, and the Rose Quartz Crystal Skull], and then moving on to my visionary paintings.

About my artwork

I am inspired by the unseen the mystical. When I am painting I go to a different world, dark symbolic. Painting is the medium I feel is best suited to share theses visions with you. I still own sacred symbols body art studio, but I now dedicate my time to painting. I’m now working towards for my first solo show [Pandemonium in the rose garden] this will be in Bath 2008. A selection of my original paintings and sculpture are on exhibition at Sacred Symbols fine art gallery

Artists I like

Zdzislaw Beksinski

Hans Bellmer

Interests

Painting,sculpture

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

'PANDEMONIUM IN THE ROSE GARDEN'

The Visionary Art of Steven V. Mitchell

Walcot Street Mortuary Chapel,

Walcot Street. Bath

21th-29th June

The centre of the artworld is

New York, London, nowhere and everywhere