Our community of artists is the core foundation of Artfinder. With such a vast community based in all corners of the world, we wanted to help them share more about their artist journey, their artistic process and technique and what inspires them. Today, we chat with one of our amazing artists, Adam Grose.
Can you introduce yourself, where you are from and how long you have been with Artfinder for?
I'm Adam and I have been an artist ever since I could make a mark on a surface and I have never stopped. I was born in Cornwall and grew up in Somerset, where the landscape, comics, film and music have inspired my creativity. I have been with Artfinder since July 2014 when I returned from living and working in Cyprus and Spain.
How would you describe your work?
My work currently explores fragility through layering and entropy. It responds to history, memory, the landscape and the human condition. These semi-abstract glimpses are drawn from observation when travelling, gathering images through sketching, photography and my memory.
What influences you and your work?
History, landscape and other artists inspire my curiosity, my creativity and my learning. Through travelling in the landscape, researching about the past, particularly exploring those who lived many years ago, yet have become forgotten, obscured and mis-remembered.
What does your creative process involve?
I build work through utilising either drawing, painting or printmaking, exploring materials, techniques and styles. Through applying layers of colour, images, forms and marks, a painting or print is gradually built up over time, allowing elements to grow and breathe, allowing time for an image to evolve, finding itself and develop through observation, experimentation and utilising chance and the accident to inform the work. I like to be surprised by the outcome.
Have you changed as an artist overtime?
Yes. I used to create mainly portraiture and figures, but during my time on residencies in Cyprus and Spain, the influence of the landscape gradually found its way into my work, expanding my work, exploring materials, pigments and ways of making work through erasure, weathering, entropy and observing how the physical changes over time, forming new ways of seeing how a work can be produced. I'm currently drawn to screen-printing and Japanese styles of print application.
What’s your favourite artwork you created and why?
A difficult question to answer, yet I would probably say Cezanne's Montagne Sainte-Victoire paintings. These paintings completely opened up painting and what it can be seen as, forging new ways of seeing and making, as a form of representation, abstraction and conceptualism.
What do you think is the role of art/artists in society?
The role of an art for me is to enable others to access creativity, however small in their lives and improve their understanding about what creativity is and its benefit to one's health and wellbeing. The message will be individual to the artist/creator, whether it is for pleasure or for the polemical.
What advice do you have for emerging artists looking to make a living out of their art career?
Create everyday, share your work widely, don't compare your art to others and help others to benefit from your creativity. Become a master craftsperson in your style and you will be the best at what you do.
Cover image via Adam Grose
