Questions for the artist:
What do you love?
Vegetables, fruit, watching wild animals, the body, Renaissance drawings, blue sky and sun.
What artists/works have had a strong effect on you and your own work?
Bring on the eighteenth century! And all those great Chinese painters! And Clodion, Germain Richier and Gaston Lachaise! As well as Munokata, Emilio Greco, Dix, Beckmann, Kollwitz, Bonnard, Cheri Samba, Moke, Zurbaran, Callot, Bonnard, Pissaro, Raphael, Dufy, and Donatello.
I really admire the sculptures done by in the Kamakura period in Japan, the Gandhara period in Afghanistan, and the Gupta period at Sarnath in India.
What are you working on now?
Maquettes for meditation figures, wall reliefs, female buddhas.
What themes (personal, political, cultural) do you find emerging in your artwork, either consciously or unconsciously? Food, impermanence, the inner life.
What do you think of “shock” artists like Damien Hirst? I don't, I'm interested in craftsmanship and technique. Ars longa, vita brevis, shock is short-lived and if you really want that you can always stick your fingers in a wall socket.
There's an old saying about not confusing the finger pointing at the moon with the moon itself, nowadays there is discussion of the hand, elbow, shoulder, clothes, new clothes, emperor and so on, meanwhile the moon has set.
The term artist is now so broad that it refers to anyone choosing to designate themselves as such, or anyone referred to as such by the media... this means the number of artworks is potentially infinite, and the question arises: which forces determine which works receive attention?
Speculators colluding with media and institutions can label any object a work of art and then realise enormous return on their investment. Something to laugh about, maybe the internet will let people see more different stuff.
Are there any trends in art right now that excite you? I'm really pleased at the way museum collections are going online, I can now pay regular visits to my favourite museum, the Musee Guimet, at http://www.museeguimet.fr/
How can people see more of your work or purchase items they like?
Go to the painting and sculpture gallery at veganica.com, or taste the fruit and veg at veganalia.com, or try veganartist.com.
All photographs and artwork are copyright Cyclops
The images displayed are: Headspace, Bull, Who am I, Wings, and Yoga.
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