David Skelton's Extraordinary Patterns... 

Born in 1951, I was a teenager in 1968 and at art college in Rochdale. I spent a year doing surface pattern and a year doing a foundation in fine art. I had a lot of time to play, explore and learn, in a very creative environment, especially with being in the middle of the psychedelic times and the Aquarian on the horizon. Exploration of inner space, discovering clearer states of being became central to me, and has been a big player in the development of my work.

 

Family life took over in the 70s and 80s, but I went back to art college in Bradford in 1984. How to get an income from art was important, trouble was, pattern always slid towards art, these bits of pattern grew, in an unusual manner.

     

Playing with Pattern  - The idea of Wallpapers to sink into, led to the development of my process, and a body of work using photocopied images, scissors, tape and glue. I'm now working digitally. I choose a photographed scene, as a source of colour and form, and make patterns that change as they grow, the process allows me to choose, manipulate, refine and build or grow an image to any size, potentially wall size. Things appear and disappear during the process, so I take pieces/snapshots along the way.

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Over the years  - I have accumulated a lot of pieces, and am presenting them  here in the hope that you will enjoy them, and maybe buy one or two. I have placed the images in one of five categories, which relate back to the original images: architectural, natural, colorful, pattern and shape, and spacious. some of these pieces have been growing for a long time, more pieces have been taken, they are presented as sets.

 

I am inspired by life, the world, beauty, the mysteriousness of art, the possibility that it can remind us of our connection to now and the whole incredibleness of this creation."

 

David Skelton 

 

 

Take a look at more of David's work here in the Shop and Gallery.