Welcome
Timothy Blewitt
Una Beaven
Scilla Allen
Caroline Elderfield
Natalie Fernandes
Jane Hanley
Des Kilfeather
Rose Mackew
Philip Ridler
Tina Ryan
Graham Westcott
Jenni Watson
Tana Jackson
Hadkhu Samdan
Marina Burgess
Sally Jane Payne
Artists' Entrance (All)
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CREATING IMAGES WITH A COMPUTER.
I began creating images on a computer in 1997. My previous attempts to be creative were through photography and traditional methods of painting. (I have exhibited work since 1978.) My main particular interest in painting would I suppose be categorised as abstract expressionism. The computer and specialised software has become a useful tool towards my endeavour to produce progressive and hopefully articulate abstract images.
As an artist who produces two dimensional images using computers I am aware of the debate at present regarding their use for creating artwork. Computers have been used effectively for cinematography, advertising and television.
However, is the individual artist able to justify the exchange of skill with brush and paint for the electro-digital response of the computer.? Has the artist skills become redundant?
Does the computer take away the artist individuality or facilitate artwork that may not be reproduced manually by brush, paint and paper? It can of course do the latter but I believe the computer can also help develop and enhance the artists creative individuality and ability to express himself. It need not necessary undermine it. The use of computers will allow the artist to discover and explore new visual concepts, dimensions and boundaries; which should be limitless and for me at least, challenging and exciting.
I would suggest those that may have been put off by paint and paper or perhaps for whatever reason are unable to develop fluent manual skills may be more creative using computers, computer-generated artwork may therefore bring out the artist in all of us.
Any finished artwork has to stir the emotions of the viewer to be relevant, whatever the medium, quality or degree of ability shown by the artist. To me, that is one of the joys of art-that each piece of work has a different interpretation intellectually and spiritual response to and for each individual viewer.
The debate will continue, the mouse 'may' have replaced the brush? But the artists soul, intellect and vision remains prevalent in the artwork and is definitely irreplaceable.
Philip Ridler.
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What is SWAG ?
Sunny Worthing Arts Group
