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Cultural Magazine El Sismógrafo



June 2004
Richard Wazejewski & Claire Waterhouse



This month Artpoints presents a young english couple of digital artists, Richard Wazejewski and Claire Waterhouse.

I've always had an overwhelming desire to find a 'voice' and to harness my feelings and ideas, my dreams and visions. Motivated by the desire to liberate the workings of the subconscious mind; disrupting conscious thought processes by irrationality and enigma, and perhaps find a unique voice and share with others that which I'd discovered.

    

Most certainly this is the dawn of a new artistic age still in its infancy, but vastly expanding. Photoshop enables the artist to make real their wildest fantasies or darkest fears. This is what we aim to achieve in our artwork; sometimes in a beautiful and poetic way, other times in the most wild and hideous of ways or maybe a comfortable juxtaposition of the two.

 

Richard P Wazejewski

Relying on my very first memories, I have always realised that my destiny and ambition was directed somewhere in the artistic world.

My teaching experience has enabled my own concepts to develop, and I now embrace the opportunity to work in all mediums, rather than being restricted to my specialism in 3D design. The use of computers enables us to explore mixed media, without any fear of failure. 'Adobe Photoshop' offers the artist to explore realism and abstraction to an unlimited degree.

Whilst I am constantly working in practical materials through my teaching, I particularly relish the cleanliness of the computer as a  tool. 

Claire A Waterhouse

In their artistic work, Richard Wazjewski and Claire waterhouse dominate their savaga fantasyby way of a strong composition, for which the digital technique is specially suited.

Realism and abstraction are intermixed and the colour gamma, visibly discreet with some surprisingly clear touches, gives expression to a world somtimes frightening, sometimes chicking, essential, and humoristic, always deep and sometimes kind and tender as in fairytale.

Their irrational dreams and visions remind us sometimes of the flemish masters, (Bosch and Breughel) in the middle of a dream landscape.

They thus transform their ideas in a passionate own artistic world and express in a masterly and convincing way their knowhow through the palette of the computer.

Aguila. Curator.


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