Nate Guimond When I was young, I was very interested in the way things worked. I drew obsessively. For me, creating art was not so much a way of expressing what I felt, but of dissecting and understanding the world that I saw. Copying the things around me was how I made sense of things, how I looked for meaning in complexity and randomness. I used to use pencil almost exclusively. Paint seemed too unpredictable and messy. When I did begin painting, after I finished university, it was natural that I continue using only black and white. Why fix something that works? It was only after I began to paint that I discovered art as a way to express ideas and tell stories, rather then as just a way of studying and recording observations about the world. I DREAM IN COLOUR I really enjoy seeing and experiencing things outside of what I previously thought or imagined. For this reason, I like travelling, reading science-fiction, and dreaming. I learned about imaginative drawing from working with children. Kids like art because it is interesting and fun, and not because it is technically flawless. When I’m making drawings, colouring pages, and murals intended for children, I get to excercise a part of myself that imagines possibilities and is unafraid of making mistakes. This is the world that I like to illustrate through art: A world of infinite possibilities, timelessness, and blurred boundaries between fantasy and reality – a kinetic future in which technology and nature are in balance.
Saint John Arts Centre
5pm July 10 - Sept 4, 2009
Last Day of Camp, acrylic
I THINK IN BLACK AND WHITE.
Dream Voyage, Acrylic
In my dreams, colours are more vivid than in waking life. I can fly, there are telepathic dinosaurs and talking animals, and all sorts of strange events can happen without my questioning them.
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