SIT
| August 4, 2011 | ART | Posted by James Watkins |
SIT is an established and successful artist who has made himself comfortable in the art scene in Amsterdam for a number of years. Life as a graphic designer and creative in advertising led its usual course with true artists, to a point where he wanted and needed to sink his energy into his own ideas, his own concepts and craved the time needed to develop his own art.
Withdrawing back to basics and working with his hands with tangible mediums, he set to work and has ended up with a fantastic portfolio of engaging, graphic works which capture dark, primal, animalistic visuals blended with carnal, sexual and feminine imagery.
For the most part his surreal images are devoid of colour, creating a mildly melancholic mood. His technical ability is without question word-class, rendering beautifully detailed textures with at times startling realism, often within the reassuring vague lines of the edge of a real page, of real paper.
His work is laced with conceptual, thoughtful ideals. Using his work as a vehicle to express his misgivings about our contemporary world, the search for purity, vanity, the natural vs the materialistic and his own metaphysical translations of meaning.
