Miles' Blackbird (16 x 20 in. Oil/Canvas) Painting

Bio - Rob Snikkar I am a self-taught artist working mainly with oils. I also paint in watercolour, draw and create mobile sculptures. I have been influenced by Kupka, Kandinsky, Brooker, Russolo and others and have made an extensive study of representing music. Currently I'm creating paintings and mobile sculptures that represent music. I plan to also create installations with image, mobile sculpture, light and music. I am also interested in images representing non-sexualized femininity and political protest art. Artist's statement Music and visual art are languages that touch our innate aesthetic. So many feelings and concepts are shared by these arts; composition, motif, balance, harmony, tension, discord, tone, key, movement, rhythm, rest, foreground, background, depth.... But how to... - represent music through painting and sculpture? Not to simply transcribe music into notation such as sheet music. - capture the sound space, tonality, rhythm, and feel of music visually? - compose visual works that evoke the same emotive responses as music? - represent a particular piece or style of music? - paint the voice of Miles Davis' muted horn, a minor key, a symphony, the timbre of Chet Baker's quavering voice, or the song Back To Black by Amy Winehouse? e-mail