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Neoclassicist

A new revolution to beauty, wonder and grace

About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 I am an artist who believes in the consistency of beauty. View my works in pics or go online to www.thetemplegallery.co.uk. I was brought up in Northern Ireland and now live in Highland Perthshire in one of Britains most dramatic landscapes. While at Art College I broke my leg quite badly and was resigned to lying with my leg up for a number of weeks. During this time I received a vision or dream (not quite certain how to term it) were I saw a Temple. Since then all my abilities have been focused on such a goal. The rebuilding of the Temple campaign has begun.The Temple Gallery was established three years ago. At first I turned a room in my house into a gallery and then I purchased a shop building which I live above in an Old Temperance Hotel. I live here with my wife and two children - Judah David and Aria Grace. The shop building houses the new Temple Gallery which exhibits a permanent collection of my Fine Art and other invited artists. I also have a gallery shop which sells Winsor & Newton art supplies, Fabriano paper, Moleskine sketch books to name but a few.The Temple fades in and out of my reality, at times the most Terra Firma place my feet can tread then suddenly blindness... Not black and dark but white, so white that I think I will never see again.

My Interests

The Temple Gallery has slowly begun its long arduous attempt at rebuilding. Its private publishing press, The Partisan Press which recently won an award will start its role of pamphletering and message distribution in a greater capacity with limited edition books on sale soon.

I'd like to meet:

Those that see beyond their today, who have not been captivated by modernism's complete spin. You embrace history full on and appreciate the masters of art. You see the transcendental nature of beauty through the ages as it continues to raise its head. You have noticed it in the Greeks, at the Renaissance, in the Baroque and with the Neo- Classicists, the Nazarenes and the Victorians. You cannot escape the tethering beauty and wonder of art. And you have felt the inner swell of the divine. You may also have a part to play in the rebuilding of the temple. Just being here interested is the first step.Anybody else who lives not for air but the breath of beauty and the sound of the sublime.

Music:

Sufjan Stevens, John Taverner, Jose Gonzalez, Emiliana Torrini, Schumann, Gluck, Fourtet, Sigur Ros, Beethoven, Polly Paulusma, Nick Drake, DJ Shadow, Arvo Part,

Movies:

Wings of Desire, Amelie, House of Flying Daggers, Cinema Paradiso, The Man who Knew too Much, Bourne Supremacy, Jerry Maquire

Television:

I am at odds with the idiot box. Its dazzling pictures flick and flash and are so absorbing and yet so repulsive. It is my great nemesis, the paradox of my soul.

Books:


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Heroes:

Painters: Caravaggio, Michelangelo, John Flaxman, Nazarenes, Zurburan, Ribera, Sculptors: Michelangelo, John Flaxman, Alexander Stoddart, Giambologna, Bernini, Thorvaldsen Architects: Alexander Greek Thomson, William Playfair, Robert Adam, Palladio, Schinkel Poets: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Francis Thompson, Holderlin, Keats Authors: Dostoyevsky, John Herdman

My Blog

Do we see light?

Do we see light?I have heard it said that the shadow is a memory A back lit vision as the day turnsBut I am lessened by a thoughtThat the shadow steals my attentionWhilst my mind needs to see the ligh...
Posted by Neoclassicist on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:39:00 PST

Traditional artist, narrow minded, nostalgic, stuck in the past, out of date etc etc.

Greek thought cannot be regarded as irrelevant - especially considering the dizzying heights they reached in the arts, life and culture. To have such timeless pieces of beauty that has stimulated each...
Posted by Neoclassicist on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:30:00 PST

Modern art is facile

Modern Art is FacileGood abstract art is just good design. Installation art cannot exist ouside of the gallery space. The word ..Art.. is failing us. Modern art is facile, facetious, arrogant and fash...
Posted by Neoclassicist on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:27:00 PST

Myspace Mental Lurgee

Does Myspace encourage introspection or build real friendships? Is myspace an unatural environment that incubates itself and feeds its own interest. Like some kind of infection or addictive drug. Or i...
Posted by Neoclassicist on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:05:00 PST

Drawing Dreams

Those who draw seem to live in a suspended world of tonal realities and linear dreams, its where new visions are seen and where maps that guide are revealed.
Posted by Neoclassicist on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:12:00 PST

Sabbatical: A New Play

A Short Play entitled SabbaticalTime, history and narrative. All play out in this theatre game. Time, a frenzied bepeckled man takes the stage to bore the audience with his incessant mutterings about ...
Posted by Neoclassicist on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:36:00 PST

Architectural Principles in an age of Nihilism

Architecture, classical or modern? Well the establishment has accepted modernism as the norm. Glass and modern materials in the city, natural and local materials in the country - not a bad thing reall...
Posted by Neoclassicist on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:37:00 PST

Subsidence: The Full Story

Subsidence. My father spoke of his childhood home, a little end terrace that was sinking into the ground. No inside doors of the house would close, the main window sill for the living room was cracked...
Posted by Neoclassicist on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:29:00 PST

Passionate Observation

Without a patron artists are confined to bedsits - awake with groaning bellies, failing relationships and over-anxious worrying. So often I hear people speak of their unartistic abilities and then pra...
Posted by Neoclassicist on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:33:00 PST

Wasteland

Dante came to a pathless forest - a nowhere land, a place where he was open to attack. Although the beasts came, Virgil appeared as his guide. The new nowhere land is the poet T.S. Eliot's wasteland. ...
Posted by Neoclassicist on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:46:00 PST