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Chloe

Always striving to be Erumpent.

About Me

'Unflinching honesty must be observed in all your studies. It is only then that the "you" in you will eventually find expression in your work. And it is this personal quality, this recording of the impressions of life as felt by a conscious individual that is the very essence of distinction in art.' - Harold Speed, The Practice and Science of Drawing

I live in rural (WEST) Dorset in England among some nature which I (perpetually) need to pay closer attention to. Especially the trees. (Maybe not just the trees though)

I'm mainly about painting pictures and drawing but with a social conscience and more intensity than is strictly polite.

My Great Grey Intense blog not updated as much as it used to be, but there's a bit of an archive of my little mental wranglings in there.

(But when I say 'great grey' I'm referring to it as if it was a species of seal, I'm not proclaiming it as a great literary work. Also even though I want you to look in it and potentially get in aforementioned Good Books, the purpose of it is to help me think, function and paint flowingly and not to show off my vast knowledge and wit. Because what whatever intelligence I have, it's not for me to say I'm using it for proper virtuous purposes... And also I like interiority.)

My fun white blog is mainly for my very latest pictures and you're welcome to leave comments there.

And I also have a website with lots and lots of my pictures on it .


I edited my profile with Thomas’ Myspace Editor V3.6 !
P.S. I have a moderately interesting collection of physical ailments, which I wouldn't mention except who knows, maybe they mean I have something in common with other sickly strays out there, maybe even you. They include: juvenile rheumatoid arthritis since being tiny, total deafness in one ear following labyrinthitis in 1997, and having had an exotic facial surgery at age thirteen to counter wonkening and lopsidery of the jaw ball.I'm quite healthy now though. I may burst from the health, it's true, and I can do the crab. Pose. ..

My Interests

thinking, drawing, being simultaneously fully three dimensional and fully 2 dimensional, painting, paint, pencils, killer draftspersons, sound metaphysics, Cathedrals, pro wrestling*: (*for further illumination of this kraftily kounterintuitive kultural krossfertilisation, see my grey blog ) (Additional note, June 2008: Me and wrestling might have broken up.) , classic cartoons, omnology, Krazy Kat, becoming cerebral about pop music, getting lighthearted about heavy things, blogging as an act of faith, reading, books, John Ruskin, Grunewald, Ren and Stimpy, JMW Turner's whisps and puffs

I'd like to meet:

FRIENDS. Allies. (real ones) Wealthy patrons/eccentric benefactors, people who empathise with the things I say in my blog in any way at all, people who find my pictures to be acceptable. Those who beleive in beauty and put their money where their mouth is.

Maybe also chaps who want to take me on exuberant art materials shopping expeditions. Oh, life could be so sweet.

The best way to show you love my pictures is to buy one. Because that helps me to keep doing them. Yes it's true. It's damn true.

Music:

bollocks. Beach Boys, Joe Meek, Mozart, Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Prince, Motown, Carter Family, Ivor Cutler, artful comedy bands, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Incredible String Band, Charles Ives, Currently Elgar, joyous dumb bubblegum pop, death songs from the late 50s/early 60s, dumb music when I find it to be a gateway to an atmosphere, Beatles, Everly Brothers, *I'm not really comfortable with anyone trying to deduce my essence from lists of this sort... I'd like to think I'm far too erumpent and charismatic to be reduced to such linear squareness. Also, I have had a willfully retarded approach to music appreciation since I lost the hearing in my right ear when I was seventeen... I'm not frantically searching... but I am gently curious

Movies:

Random Harvest, All About Eve, anything with young Clark Gable, currently things with Bette Davis, Eisenstein face closeups, Some Like it Hot, Pinocchio, Rebecca, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Airplane, The Elephant Man, possibly Mullholland Drive but I've only seen it once, I like David Lynch things, Crumb, Dumbo, Princess Mononoke, Paul Newman's eyes and Paul Newman's consistently getting wet, Rocks are Ludo's friends, really I'm wilfully ignorant and I've given up collecting cultural allegiances in earnest, or at least, I've given up holding them tightly; so... I'd like to be able to use culture as a means by which to reach beyond culture. I say this partly because my films list looks somehow wrong, like I haven't seen enough films to have favourites, or I'm not cut out to have favourites at all.

Television:

Doctors, Newsround, The Box of Delights, Watercolour Challenge, The Young Ones, Father Ted, Monty Python, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, WWE Raw, Newsnight Review, Harry Hill's TV Burp, The Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Look Around You, The Day Today, Jim Henson's The Storyteller, the Wonder Years, Ulysses 31, Ren and Stimpy, Moondial, Twin Peaks, Lost, Neighbours (it's Scott's fault), Rolf's Cartoon Time

Books:

Currently reading (as evidenced by large pile by my bed... I didn't plan it this way...)Depression: the Way Out of your Prison by Dorothy Rowe, The Ode Less Travelled by S. Fry, Victor Ambrus's drawings from Time Team, a book of Durer's drawings which I'm studying from rather than reading mainly, Meditations on the Tarot, Wrestling with the Angel (about the Delacroix mural), Beatrix Potter biog by Linda Lear, Modern Painters vol. 2 by John Ruskin (which is still in one peace as I only read it gently in bed), Michael Palin's monty python diaries, The Pathway by Henry Williamson...

Heroes:

Rembrandt, Samuel Palmer, John Ruskin, Beatrix Potter, George Herriman, Orson Welles, Stimpy, my cat Hal, His late and much missed amazing brother Stephen, Sister Wendy Beckett, Brian Wilson, Robin Williamson, John Kricfalusi, William Blake, my friend Bob (the world's best person), most flowers and trees and the odd duck here and there... some nice people. Not that niceness is the be all and end all. I hiss like a snake sometimes! (I hissed like a snake at the end of the horror film Love Actually)