Street Arts
- Lsd Magazine Interviews German Artist Ecb
Probing the memories of silent time so serpentine and careworn focus dripping wisps of the sublime, German artist ECB has truly taken monumental portraiture to the next level. Painting abstract stories of earthy reality into the creases and peeling...
- Lsd Magazine Interviews Sao Paolo Artist ' Magrela' Issue 7
Lighting up the sun dyed streets of Sao Paolo with the rich recesses of imagination comes the work of Brazilian artist, Magrela. Taking the mind bending characters of her ‘Vomitos’ series through a spiralling journey into textured layers of psychologically...
- Lsd Magazine Interviews - El Seed (issue 5)
Building bridges across communities, cultures, preconceptions and artistic forms, El Seed is throwing up a unifying mirror of colour, clean form and the universality of cross cultural humanty. Fusing the ancient medium of calligraphy with the urban...
- Lsd Magazine Interviews - Indigo (canada) (issue 5)
Rippling gently with the stillness of whispered emotion frozen into a moment, Indigo’s soft serenade of stencil and spray over the last two years has graced our universal public spaces with profound echos of an intangible dream. A stunning photo-realism...
- Lsd Magazine Interviews Artists Best Ever
LSD: You originally started out as graffiti writers, tell us a little about the journey from writing on walls to creating photorealistic wall impressions. B: in around 2005 I'd kind of had a break from painting letters for a year or so when me and...
Street Arts
LSD Magazine Interviews Ian Phenna (Issue 7)
Lashing a passionately poignant prism of portraiture to the end of his spray can and letting fly with the visual poetry of textured metaphor, Ian Phenna is coughing up some seriously sublime slices of figurative art. As the line between ‘street’ and ‘fine’ dissolves into a radical synthesis, aspects of the can and stylistic starting points born onto brick dance through an ethereal mirror of human emotion where lonliness and alienation meet mishief and a wry twinkle and settle in for paint drenched piss up. Playing with texture and mediums, some of Ian’s most fascinating work lifts the cult of letters out of graffiti and abstracts them into layers of elusive, indefinable feeling...
Did you initially start out writing and develop into wider forms of painting, or did you have an ‘finer’ art background?
I started drawing and painting when I was very young and never had any formal training but was a vandal before actually thinking about ‘art’
How did portraiture become the major focus of your work?
I’ve always been naturally compelled to draw and paint people around me...
What are you looking for in a face?
Contrast, expression, gaze, I dont really know...some faces come directly from my imagination
How do you weave emotion and the abstract into a portrait?
One «tag» or symbol starts the process..then I find and lose an image repeatedly with tags until the process stops,I think this way of working adds an emotive edge.
Should realism ever be an end in itself ?
Why not? For each their own... I can paint realism, it just doesn’t really engage me...I prefer the unpredictable way of working
What is it about seminal musical figures like Bob Marley, Sid Vicious and Jimi Hendrix that speaks to your spray can?
They are just good subjects to paint...
Did you initially start out writing and develop into wider forms of painting, or did you have an ‘finer’ art background?
I started drawing and painting when I was very young and never had any formal training but was a vandal before actually thinking about ‘art’
How did portraiture become the major focus of your work?
I’ve always been naturally compelled to draw and paint people around me...
What are you looking for in a face?
Contrast, expression, gaze, I dont really know...some faces come directly from my imagination
How do you weave emotion and the abstract into a portrait?
One «tag» or symbol starts the process..then I find and lose an image repeatedly with tags until the process stops,I think this way of working adds an emotive edge.
Should realism ever be an end in itself ?
Why not? For each their own... I can paint realism, it just doesn’t really engage me...I prefer the unpredictable way of working
What is it about seminal musical figures like Bob Marley, Sid Vicious and Jimi Hendrix that speaks to your spray can?
They are just good subjects to paint...
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- Lsd Magazine Interviews German Artist Ecb
Probing the memories of silent time so serpentine and careworn focus dripping wisps of the sublime, German artist ECB has truly taken monumental portraiture to the next level. Painting abstract stories of earthy reality into the creases and peeling...
- Lsd Magazine Interviews Sao Paolo Artist ' Magrela' Issue 7
Lighting up the sun dyed streets of Sao Paolo with the rich recesses of imagination comes the work of Brazilian artist, Magrela. Taking the mind bending characters of her ‘Vomitos’ series through a spiralling journey into textured layers of psychologically...
- Lsd Magazine Interviews - El Seed (issue 5)
Building bridges across communities, cultures, preconceptions and artistic forms, El Seed is throwing up a unifying mirror of colour, clean form and the universality of cross cultural humanty. Fusing the ancient medium of calligraphy with the urban...
- Lsd Magazine Interviews - Indigo (canada) (issue 5)
Rippling gently with the stillness of whispered emotion frozen into a moment, Indigo’s soft serenade of stencil and spray over the last two years has graced our universal public spaces with profound echos of an intangible dream. A stunning photo-realism...
- Lsd Magazine Interviews Artists Best Ever
LSD: You originally started out as graffiti writers, tell us a little about the journey from writing on walls to creating photorealistic wall impressions. B: in around 2005 I'd kind of had a break from painting letters for a year or so when me and...