Artist: Gary Goodman
Title: Girl With Glass
Medium: gouache on paper
Size: 29 x 20cm

Visit: www.gary-goodman.co.uk

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Gary Goodman has exhibited extensively since 1987, from Alaska to New Zealand and most recently, Norway. His  work is in many private collections and, most recently, has been bought by South East Arts for their permanent collection of contemporary art.  In 1994 and 1995, Gary was represented at the Frankfurt Art Fair by Galerie Goethe. In 2004 he was awarded an Arts Council grant and exhibited his work in Atlanta. He is a poet, writer and currently working with Billy Childish towards a two-man show at HQ.

“It's rare that I make a purely conscious decision about what I'm going to paint. I believe that any creative process involves a kind of calling-up of the spirits of the subconscious. What lurks there? My daughter, Tilda, was born with an incurable metabolic disease. My fears and concerns regarding her welfare have a starring role in my own subconscience, my inner eye. And, more broadly, so does the horror I experience at the insane selfish abuse of other people (especially children) - destroyed, hurt, orphaned, made-homeless, had their innocence wrecked or taken away...
My aim is to use the colours and shapes and to apply the paint in a passionate, celebratory way; to translate Tilda's efforts into positive creative energy. I'm optimistic about my pessimism. I paint a carnival of sadness. Life is a joke and a tragedy at the same time. In my pictures, through things seen and things felt,  I like to think the positive usually wins out in the conflict.”