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Gary Goodman is a painter and writer. His imagery is resoundingly direct, unbothered by artistic self-consciousness and politeness; unrefined, unmannerly yet extremely sensitive. Gary has exhibited his work and performed his poetry around the world: from the frozen wastes of Norway and Alaska down to the warmth of the southern states of USA . He works from his shed at the end of his garden in Sussex .“There is a good deal of the shamanic in Goodman.” Prof Michael Tucker “Gary Goodman is driven – his work is elemental, searching, honest.” Veronica Travers “ gary goodman is not trying to impress anyone with his art gary goodman is merely saying hello with some drawing.” Billy Childish “Goodman’s paintings, with their fear, their pain, colour, beauty, truth, have touched my soul” Sally Scott “Far from brutal, Goodman’s way of painting is highly poetic” Prof Norbert LyntonI am painter I am writer I am father I copy myself I chew the inside of my mouth I won't murder anybody neither for money or loveI refuse to make anybody feel smallI do what it is I doI do my best which is what I feel is right with no self-seeking motiveI am not a shaman yet I could easily be the wounded healer to many or to oneI'm asthmatic and psoriatic I am weak in mind I don't eat meat and I can't drink coffeeI smoke and drink and in my wheezy chest-tightened stricture I am at edge of storm splashing paint vomiting words most importantly looking for life amongst the ashtrays and sticky glasses and unmade beds and late night telephone calls and trans-Atlantic flights and...come on! there's no way I would cut off my ear and definitely I couldn't shoot myself because it seems to me that there is always the possibility of something wonderful lurking like a maggot at the bottom of a Tequila bottle just around the cornerwww.gary-goodman.co.uk
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