Portrait One_
Joe Holbrook is an artist from south London now based in Amsterdam. I came across his work from the Sid Lee Collective.
Portrait Two_
Danny Roberts is an artist/thinker based in California. I’ve previewed a little of his work before with Igor + André.
Creating Connections
What I find interesting is the complete unifying force held within the visual medium. Love or hate art or specific artists, there’s no denying that creative talent transcends borders, cultures and beliefs.
Great art means different things to different people (this blog looks to find a common thread), but all art touches us somewhere inside ourselves. Art and creative communications has the immense power of uniting often very different people from very different places.
I’m not a purist, art for me can be commercial, it can be technical, it could be a great advertising concept or a beautiful piece of product design. If art is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination – when you experience it, it can truly stop your world.
The two artists I’ve stumbled upon here, come from very different places, and, I assume, have had very different experiences. But both produce exceptional work. Somehow there’s a visual magnetism running through the canvas, attracting the soul.
What links me to anyone else who likes their work? Capturing that connection is a powerful thing, but something that is to often demoted in the rush to do business.
So get out, see these artists work. Look at the work of the many other creative talents out there. Feel the magnetic effect that pulls us all together in a common, unifying goal to connect with each other through the freedom of expression.
