CHRISTOPHER GAWOR

"SCULPTED ART ON CANVAS"

After a varied background in music, film and advertising, writing and photography, Chris has now turned his full attentions to his continued love of art. He uses his unusual eclectic track record of media skills to develop an art form, which he terms as "sculpted art on canvas".

Using his desire to bring about an "unfiltered" response to the beauty of the feminine form with a purity of a woman's sexuality, Chris has chosen to express his creativity with this newly created art form. With his artistic eye and hand, he has created this "sculpted art on canvas", using a complex and painstaking process, which requires a number of cross-over artistic skills. As with any major work of oil on canvas, the process he works with allows no two pieces of art to be re-created identically. Each image is unique, and has been developed over years of capturing the original photographic image before commencing on the sculptor's journey of turning the images into finished works of art on canvas.

Chris regularly creates photographic images of the feminine form along with images of nature and man made shapes. He sculpts them into unique and challenging art pieces to alter our perceptions of how we view things in this fractious world. Thus also removing the usual stereotyping that clouds our judgement on first glance, and the masks we so often keep on ourselves and others to survive.

With so many permutations possible crossing this whole "sculpting" process - that is, of the photographic image (or part-image) chosen; of colour (and its saturation and luminosity); of texture; of lighting; of shading; combined with the depth, style and succinctness of each paint stroke and effect used; makes each piece of sculptured art on canvas totally unique. Simply put - allowing "sculpting art onto canvas" through use of all the elements available, such as light, shade, colour, texture, form and shape.

Through the abstract forms created out of reality, we enter a new place of learning about the human form and nature. The use of photographic images of nature, such as the sun or water, can also be aligned with how the traditional sculptor takes earth and uses it to help create his final art work, and also expresses the myriad of colours that nature is capable of producing, thus raising the questions of Who is ultimately responsible for this natural beauty?

Embracing the coming of the digital age purely for creative design, has allowed Chris to increase the options available to experiment and push those boundaries previously unavailable, in terms of shape, form and colours, and thus allow for a unique combination of the real and the abstract within the completed art work.