Heather Harker
Red Is The Only Colour
When I was asked to submit work to be featured in Dream Catcher I couldn’t resist the temptation to offer some work which uses visual images incorporating text. It seems a perfect opportunity to share the way in which I span the distance between my loves of both words and visual images.
The words are fragments of text taken from longer writings of mine, and in using them I had the intention of removing them from their context so that they became part of something else, something the viewer/reader could imprint their own meaning upon.
These phrases in paintings and prints are in no way an attempt to explain the visual images, neither are the images an illustration of the text, they are just two parts of my thinking which come together to form a visual language which I dare to call art. Not suprisingly I am influenced by the works of other artists who use text and image such as Ian Hamilton Findlay, poet, philosopher, and visual artist.
If you have not seen or read his work I recommend it to you. I claim not his genius or his wit but the influence of his clarity of vision and his whimsy, each of which I aspire to.
I am reminded as I write this artist’s statement of a quotation attributed by some to Frank Zappa which goes something like “Talking about art is like dancing about Architecture,” I understand the sentiment but can’t agree.
Anyone for the next Renzo Piano Waltz?
All illustrated work from a series entitled “Red is the Only Colour.”
The artist can be contacted via Artlink 01476 592284
The artist’s work can also be viewed on Axis database @ www.axisartists.org.uk
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