Peter Lee Crookes
My work has always been reflective of emotions, how they are felt and seen in the physical form and conveyed to the viewer without the use of words in Biro on canvas and paper.
In the Spring of 2013 I was diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder. Without realizing what was happening I had come to a point where I found myself retreating more and more within myself and increasingly blocking out the outside world, my family and my friends and finding it difficult to explain to people my fears and dread of everyday life. Through counseling and personal reflection, part of my therapy was to discuss my life, through my childhood into teenage then adult life to find how the condition had developed and how to come to terms with it. I needed to understand the Disorder itself and drew upon my artwork to not only explain how I felt to myself but also to explain to others how I felt as I found it hard to find the words to explain , let alone the fear of actually holding a conversation.
During this time I decided to enrolled onto the Fine Art Degree, not only to further my art, which I felt had come to a point where I needed to expand, but also as part of my own personal therapy to give me a reason for meeting people. The time took me away from my biro work, which is what I felt I needed at the time and pushed me into using colour for the first time in my life and looking at other areas of art and helped me push myself and my skills. Where my Biro work had been influenced by H.R.Giger and by the writing of Clive Barker through the degree I was starting to draw on different mediums and ways of thinking what art meant to me on a much deeper level.
Towards the end of the first year, I was introduced to Performance Art. This changed my whole viewpoint of how to convey my art. I could now show a true representation of my emotions. I'm finding my work is taking me deeper into my own thoughts and feelings stirring memories and helping to find my own self. Emotions and Feelings are always a key theme to me as these are true to myself, but where my work was more of a reflection of my feelings, an interpretation, I am now in the process of delivering the truth of my inner self through developing my Performance Art as I travel through my life encountering new and different situations with a view to future thematic exhibitions centered around a main live performance with my artwork, in Biro, pastel and charcoal alongside.
My work has always been reflective of emotions, how they are felt and seen in the physical form and conveyed to the viewer without the use of words in Biro on canvas and paper.
In the Spring of 2013 I was diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder. Without realizing what was happening I had come to a point where I found myself retreating more and more within myself and increasingly blocking out the outside world, my family and my friends and finding it difficult to explain to people my fears and dread of everyday life. Through counseling and personal reflection, part of my therapy was to discuss my life, through my childhood into teenage then adult life to find how the condition had developed and how to come to terms with it. I needed to understand the Disorder itself and drew upon my artwork to not only explain how I felt to myself but also to explain to others how I felt as I found it hard to find the words to explain , let alone the fear of actually holding a conversation.
During this time I decided to enrolled onto the Fine Art Degree, not only to further my art, which I felt had come to a point where I needed to expand, but also as part of my own personal therapy to give me a reason for meeting people. The time took me away from my biro work, which is what I felt I needed at the time and pushed me into using colour for the first time in my life and looking at other areas of art and helped me push myself and my skills. Where my Biro work had been influenced by H.R.Giger and by the writing of Clive Barker through the degree I was starting to draw on different mediums and ways of thinking what art meant to me on a much deeper level.
Towards the end of the first year, I was introduced to Performance Art. This changed my whole viewpoint of how to convey my art. I could now show a true representation of my emotions. I'm finding my work is taking me deeper into my own thoughts and feelings stirring memories and helping to find my own self. Emotions and Feelings are always a key theme to me as these are true to myself, but where my work was more of a reflection of my feelings, an interpretation, I am now in the process of delivering the truth of my inner self through developing my Performance Art as I travel through my life encountering new and different situations with a view to future thematic exhibitions centered around a main live performance with my artwork, in Biro, pastel and charcoal alongside.
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