About
I never used to take my art all that seriously as it has always been there and something I have always been able to do well. I have no formal training other than at school up until I was sixteen.
In my twenties I was very interested in what I can only describe as spiritual art, for the most part Animistic in that it tried to show the life in all things.
I have worked with computer graphics for the last 15 years. Mostly in the T-shirt printing company I started in 1985 with my friend Terry. This has trained me to work quickly to a brief and within a time and price; good training for any artist.
Prior to starting Apple Screenprint I worked as a barber, factory worker, gardener and grave digger; I could say dead end jobs but life is what you make it.
I became interested in what the viewer sees and feels when they look at art after a trip to Japan in 2002.
One afternoon I went to an exhibition of art created by Onisaburo Deguchi. He was a poet, potter, painter, calligrapher and one of the founders and the driving force behind the Omoto faith in Japan. Part of the exhibition was one room full of his Kanji.
The person I was walking the exhibition with “Aia-Bella” who was kind enough to challenge me “as a none speaker or reader of Nihongo, (Japanese) to try to translate what each of the Kanji meant.
We were both surprised to find how close I was able to come to their meaning. I was able to do this by the emotion in the brush strokes and the over all pattern of the symbol. This has leaded me to try to find ways to promote emotions in the viewers of my art; I of course cannot say whether I achieve this; only you can do this.
Last year I entered four pieces of artwork in the Erotic Signature Art Competition “Ophelia” won the Master Award and another picture “Little Red” won a place in the top 200 pieces of artwork that were voted into the book of the competition “The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today, volume 2” which can be ordered from the Erotic Signature website www.eroticsignature.com.
Johnny Gray Unit 1 Stadium Industrial Park, Gateshead NE10 0XF UK Phone: +(44) 01914776972
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