I’ve been meaning to link to James Gillick ever since I first saw this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt6vSHMbkGM&feature=player_embedded
I have watched this many times, and never without that ache that comes with just knowing, with every nerve ending, every fibre of being, that the moment I come out of my hiatus I must apprentice myself to James Gillick and learn everything he knows. This is my kind of Fine Art, the sort that resonates in your bones and makes your soul scamper against the skin of things. The way he weilds a palette knife causes me to gaze at my paintbox in agony of restraint. But I can’t possibly paint like this. Not until I have a shed with a drop down roof in any case.
Yes it’s true, I confess: the shed, the leather jacket, the humanity and the love at the heart of this artist’s practice is what inspired hiatus art blog in the first place.
Gah.
