by John Murray
We are attached to our phones; our phones are attached to us. We are appendages of one another. It’s hard to say which of the two benefits most from this symbiotic relationship.
Whatever, this series records the human-phone relationship visually, representing it in drawing and painting.
For me, painting is ultimately a personal expression of who the artist is. Looking at my own paintings, I sometimes wonder what I’m trying to say through them. What they tell me is that I’m interested in how people – including myself – act in the world with others, how our own contradictions and struggles, our passions, our likes and dislikes condition our behaviour and shape our world.
I have lived in many countries, but, as the song goes, everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you. So it is that my paintings, whether they reflect my experience in Russia or Spain or China or Indonesia, ultimately reflect who I am and how I respond visually to where I am at any given moment in time. In other words, what you see in my paintings is my take on the world.
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