GUY WARREN
Guy Warren's work traces an experience in paint which stretches back fifty years. The new paintings are celebratory in nature, often uninhibited in colour and sophistication in execution. They contain figures at once looming in, and equally part of the landscape, the internal pulse of nature's energy and have a sense of materiality as well as dissolution.
His theme is consistent and is about prescence. The mythology and metaphors we construct in order to make sense of man in nature and equally the presence of nature in man in nature and equally the prescence of nature in man.
Immensely curious about cross cultural myth Warren invokes everything from the primeval earth goddess Gaia, who symbolises the relationship between humanity and the environment, to aboriginal lore and the Greek myth of Iarus. The artist intuitively understands that we ARE nature.
The paintings are als the markers and residue of a life defined by experiences in the landscape from the Shoalhaven river in the 1930s through Papua New Guines in the war years, and the simple rainforest retreat which he frequents with his wife Joy on the Illawarra escarpment at Jamberoo south of Sydney.
- Bill Gregory, Sydney 2000
[Extract from exhibition catalogue]
His theme is consistent and is about prescence. The mythology and metaphors we construct in order to make sense of man in nature and equally the presence of nature in man in nature and equally the prescence of nature in man.
Immensely curious about cross cultural myth Warren invokes everything from the primeval earth goddess Gaia, who symbolises the relationship between humanity and the environment, to aboriginal lore and the Greek myth of Iarus. The artist intuitively understands that we ARE nature.
The paintings are als the markers and residue of a life defined by experiences in the landscape from the Shoalhaven river in the 1930s through Papua New Guines in the war years, and the simple rainforest retreat which he frequents with his wife Joy on the Illawarra escarpment at Jamberoo south of Sydney.
- Bill Gregory, Sydney 2000
[Extract from exhibition catalogue]