{"id":1047,"date":"2020-08-24T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americannoirpaintings.com\/blog\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2020-08-25T06:39:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T06:39:10","slug":"life-after-lockdown-renowned-artist-fletcher-sibthorp-on-self-isolation-and-entropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americannoirpaintings.com\/blog\/life-after-lockdown-renowned-artist-fletcher-sibthorp-on-self-isolation-and-entropy\/","title":{"rendered":"Life After Lockdown – Renowned artist Fletcher Sibthorp on self-isolation and entropy…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Fletcher Sibthorp<\/strong><\/a> is an English fine artist, especially known for his large-scale figurative oil paintings depicting movement in the form of dance.  His works are included in world-wide private and public collections, including The Royal Ballet<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLike many artists, I found the concept of self isolation a familiar one I had spent the past thirty years practicing.  The idea of isolation was a comfortable one, so when people were freaking out at the concept of all that time in a confined space, artists were wondering what all the fuss was about. <\/p>\n

However, what at first was considered a blessing for productivity, in reality was an existential curse for me, at least for the first few months.  The idea of painting seemed to be a worthless act while people were dying by the thousands.  I just didn\u2019t feel like painting.  It wasn\u2019t until many weeks and spending time thinking about it that I realized art plays an important part in society, even in times of radical change.<\/p>\n

Churchill, when asked to cut funding to the arts for the war effort said, \u201cThen what are we fighting for?\u201d  As a species, we are the only ones that express ourselves through art.  Self-expression and survival have gone hand in hand with humanity \u2013 It is what makes us human.<\/p>\n

My work this past year has focused on the figure and processes of entropy \u2013 the slow disintegration, \u2018the bigness and smallness of things,\u2019 using abstract mark making and serendipity to slowly build a representational image.  By using elements like water, sand and fire with the charcoal and oil paint, I remove some control and let chance do its thing.  This is especially true for the studies.<\/p>\n

I draw up a number of studies and work on them all at the same time, to see how they progress and change.  Each one takes on its own character, especially as I am at liberty to try things out on each one, as I have four to play with.  The germ of the idea is how we are all made from the same genetic pool of stuff, and over time, life changes us and things become more apparent, more polarized as we get old, developing character over time.\u201d<\/p>\n

www.fletchersibthorp.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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