I have a strong love of cubism. I sometimes call myself a contemporary
cubist, but I don't always paint with cubism in each painting. Usually, I
use cubism to compliment other elements and styles of art, such as
impressionism, expressionism, realism and art deco. In each painting I try
to create something beautiful that is original and something I personal
enjoy to look at. I can sometimes be almost finished a large painting, not
be completely happy with it and discard it -either taking it off the
stretcher or painting over it with a big coat of white for another go. So
being a perfectionist, each piece definitely starts with sketch first.
Sometimes a very detailed one using a several different lead pencils.
Though I figure out the design of each painting before hand, I will always choose
the colors as I go, never knowing what colour the bird, wall or hat will be
until I get to it.
I am a compulsive doodler. I doodle sometimes when I'm thinking without
realizing it and it sometimes frustrates me. But doing these absent-minded
sketches (sometimes whole sketchbooks of mindless mess) I find my own
personal style that is without influence, inspiration or decisiveness. From
my brain, through my hand, out the pencil and onto the paper. As time
consuming, paper consuming and plain annoying these doodles can sometimes
be, they help me to truly understand the style, moods and subject matter
that I finally put into my paintings.
So if you ask me, (which people have),
why I am mainly cubism orientated - the answer is, I really don't, it's just
what comes out. (Although I do find I like using it to create raw emotion is
a painting). But I think enjoyment, nourishment and fulfillment are the main
goals for myself in each painting.
Deep down I've always know I would be an artist, I always had the talent
and was always told it was what I was best at. Sometimes when I was younger
though I didn't want to except it, thinking I didn't want to spend the rest
of my life in front of a canvas - I was very physically and mentally on
going. As a very active boy and teenager involved in athletics, tennis,
composing music, playing drums and extra activities, including some more
reckless ones, my future goals and ambitions would change with the seasons.
Of course I didn't know what it meant to be an artist. It holds many
challenges as well opportunities, and lets out all my creative and a lot of
my physical energies.
I have started painting full time for over a year now achieving things I
didn't expect to. Before than my painting experience was very minimal.
During my teens I tried painting landscapes with oils, sometimes pulling off
a nice piece of work, but absolutely never happy with what I was doing or
enjoying the painting/ learning process at all. After leaving school at 16,
doing odd jobs and some studies in graphic design, an area of current
interest at that time; I discovered an unexpected joy in painting when
started again in 1999. I saw a friend's abstract expressionist work and
loved it. Of course I love art, so I tried to paint again, this time with a
lot more freedom, contemporary ideas and enjoyed outcomes. I most certainly
haven't looked back. It is so obvious to me now, what I have known all my
life; my art is what I wish to do with my life.
Timothy McConnachie
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