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Artist Spotlight |
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This Month We Spotlight Fellow ArtBeacon Artist Jory Gaunce.
Jory Gaunce is a painter currently residing in Santa Monica, California. Jory's work can be seen and purchased from his web site:
"1 of 3 Blind Arts".
Q: What spurred your interest in the arts?
A: When I was a child I would flip through my mom's art books and I would wander through the paintings. It was a magical landscape; one from an artist's mind. What wonderful things you can find in the mind, and what freedom you have in your own creative imagination. Also I am dyslexic and as I became older I found that writing and words did not interest me as did images. (Don't get me wrong I can read and love a good book.) I think with a vocabulary of images and icons, I enjoy telling stories through this method. When I was little I would find a story in the paintings and it was my escape... just as much today.
Q: Who or what influenced your pursuit of painting / drawing?
A: My heart, my mother, my mind and other artist. Oh and my need.
Q: What role does art play in your life?
A: A love / hate role. I love to think, work and be in the "zone" while I am working. But when I am not working I feel I am losing out on not work and I get frustrated. Some times I just have to take a break. I have so many ideas I lose some of them. It does not help being lazy. J/K So I have a love hate relationship with my work. But in the end artwork is a positive role in my life, it makes me happy and proud.
Q: Who or what artistic style has influenced you the most?
A: There is not one style that influences me, I would say it would have to be the soul of the work that moves me and has influence. I love any work that makes you think. There are too many artist to name, but here are a few: Joe Coleman, I really enjoy his packed-to-the rim of imagery and information. The stories his paintings tell are vary interesting to say the least. I am also in love with Frida, her painting mean so much to me, also in recent years I like what Alex Grey has achieved. I enjoy his paintings and master works but he's not my favorite. Joe Coleman's work is my favorite.
Q: Out of your portfolio, what pieces of artwork have you found strike a nerve with art enthusiasts the most?
A: Metamorphosis, I get the most reaction from. It is one of my favorite as wells.
Q: Which of your paintings was the most challenging to create? Why?
A: Superior Order was the most challenging one. The concepts behind it were difficult to address. There is a really deep meaning in the work. The composition was set up through mathematics, stepping on sacred geometry. The work is about human existence, spiritual need, the human DNA, atoms, and the open endlessness of our universe. Who are we and what is there? I am wrapping it all into one painting. It made my mind bleed, and gave me hope. Sometime I don't know what I am making I just know I have to make it. It makes me feel blessed.
Q: How have you dealt with less than flattering comments about your work either heard casually or through reviews?
A: Oh, I don't care; I have heard that my work is not "Art" with a capital "A". Does not matter to me, I am just happy I can produce work that I love. Also even if someone says something bad at least it made him or her look and talk about it. So Ha. My work got you! J/K.
Q: What has been the oddest comment(s) you've received in regard to your artwork?
A: Well hmm, the oddest... The one I hear the most is what type of drugs do you take? I don't mind that, but I find it sad that some people feel that drugs are the product that makes you think. My work is drug free. My mind works with imagery, conversation, music, soundÉall have images to them, I just have to close my eyes and see the world through my "Third Eye" per se.
Q: Do you print your own work? If not how is your work printed?
A: Yes, I also have a friend who works with hi-end printers who gives me a deal.
Q: Have you found particular challenges associated with printing your work? If so how were these challenges overcome?
A: No not yet. I hope you have not cursed me.
Q: How long have you been displaying and/or selling artwork online?
A: I have been displaying my work for about 4-5 years online, and about 2 years selling online.
Q: What challenges have you found impacting your ability to display or sell work online? Have you found a way to overcome these challenges?
A: One challenge I have found is getting the traffic to come to my website. What I have found to overcome that challenge is to submit my work to all websites and swap links.
Q: What goals do you have in regard to displaying and selling your work?
A: My goal is to share the work, to share the ideas with other humans. Another goal is to sell as much as I can so others can live and have the work while I have the materials to keep making it.
Q: As an off the wall ending to our interview... if you had a tail how would you use it?
A: I do have a tail it is called a Cat of Nine tails. To really answer your question I would say a whales tale it might be heavy out of the water but man would I have some power out in the ocean.
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