MIKE BARKER
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As an artist, I aspire to record those moments of quiet solitude and inner contemplation brought on by a quiet drive on a country road or walk through the forest in early morning. This same meditative state or feeling of inner peace is also something I experience when make art. The combination of these emotions inspires me to create and express how I see the world through my artwork.
Watercolour allows me to connect with nature on an elemental level and paint the feeling of the environment in a way that can elicit a response in the viewer of experiencing the landscape themselves. Watercolour flows and has an unpredictable nature that produces a spontaneous and lively quality to my work. It is a medium as untameable as mother nature which serves as a reminder that I am a part of nature, not apart from it. It is this harmony of man and nature that best describes my work.
Watercolour allows me to connect with nature on an elemental level and paint the feeling of the environment in a way that can elicit a response in the viewer of experiencing the landscape themselves. Watercolour flows and has an unpredictable nature that produces a spontaneous and lively quality to my work. It is a medium as untameable as mother nature which serves as a reminder that I am a part of nature, not apart from it. It is this harmony of man and nature that best describes my work.
