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Size: 14.4 W x 14.4 H x 2 D in
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This is one of the exploratory images inspired in part by the Buddhist ‘Fire Sermon’ and the cleansing, purifying, transforming and spiritual properties and promises of fire. A life-long fascination with fire was first triggered in me as a working class boy growing up in England where the ritual magic of bonfire night on November 5th was one of the more prodigious annual events. For me the presence of a coal fire burning night and day all year round was a perpetual visual drama. I would be entranced for hours gazing at the living, glowing, flickering fire. Small nodes of jet-black tar would form on craggy lumps of coal and spit out hissing jets of gas that would burst into a single blue flame that quickly switched to orange then red then stopped as abruptly as it started. These furnaces of hearth and home evoked battles and cataclysms in my imagination and were the pivot on which our sense of home, safety and comfort hinged and revolved. Fire is an element of primal and universal significance to humans. Who among us entirely escapes at least one proverbial ‘baptism of fire’? The combination of pure pigment, the wet on wet painting technique and a thin, spiky pen line enables the realization and release of fiery connections, realizations and potentialities.
Painting:Paint on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:14.4 W x 14.4 H x 2 D in
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Bruce Sherratt was born in England in 1944, the son of a coal miner. His gift for drawing and painting was recognized early and he began studying art full-time at age fifteen. As a young art student he was inspired by the early surrealist masters. Shortly after obtaining a degree in painting Bruce fulfilled a youthful ambition by travelling to Mexico where he settled, quickly establishing his own identity as a surrealist painter and exhibiting in Guadalajara, San Francisco and Mexico City. In the early 1970s he became interested in theories and the psychology of artistic creativity. Focusing primarily on fantasy as a stimulus for developing creative/imaginative skills he was awarded an advanced degree in art education at the University of Wales. Bruce then embarked on a rich and varied two-fold career as a practicing-exhibiting artist and teacher whose fundamental raison d'etre remains his own painting. Sherratt became interested in comparative religions and philosophies and in particular the work of Rudolf Steiner, especially the latter's work on colour theory; all of which had a profound effect on his work both as an artist and art educator. Bruce Sherratt has lived and worked in Canada, the United States, Germany, Africa, South America, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and currently in Ubud,Bali where he founded and runs his own art center and gallery - Bali Center For Artistic Creativity (BCAC) and Bruce Sherratt Gallery Of Tropical Surrealism. His travels have deeply influenced his work and its development. Nowadays Bruce's time and energies are focused at his home, studio and Art Center in Bali where paints, teaches and lives with his wife and teenage son.
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