A warm welcome to the Richard Guest website! Each post here will focus on the story of a single work. And for the most part I’ll make the work available to buy in my shop.
The intention is to hop about through time (within reason – no one wants to see the terrible conceptual art I perpetrated at art college, or listen to stories about failed experimental operas) and present the work with a bit of context.
So, here we go…
Who Do You Do
Who Do You Do, digital construct, dimensions variable, 2022 – now available to buy as a giclée Print (Lucia Ex Pigment on Hahnemühle Agave 290gsm paper), 225 x 225 mm, accompanied by a digitally signed and numbered certificate of authenticity, in an edition of 200
While I’m working on images like this I call them digital constructs. Who Do You Do is made up of elements of sketchbook drawings in graphite and watercolour pencil, and paint marks from acrylic works on canvas paper combined using a piece of software called Affinity Photo.
For the last ten years or so I have been moving as far away from making conceptual art as possible. My aim is to make an accessible art created through improvisation. Marks are mostly gestural and not pre-planned. Images are suggested by whatever is happening at the time.
Who Do You Do was one of a series of digital constructs I made using purely pencil and paint marks – the works made immediately prior included photographic elements. Dive Deep below is an example (using a photograph of the Dorset countryside taken from a speeding train as a background)…
Dive Deep, digital construct, dimensions variable, 2020 also available to buy as a giclée Print (Lucia Ex Pigment on Hahnemühle Agave 290gsm paper), 297 x 420 mm, accompanied by a digitally signed and numbered certificate of authenticity, in an edition of 200.
If you would like to talk about my work, see more examples or discuss a sale, please use the contact form on this website or email me at richard.s.guest2015 (at symbol) gmail.com.
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