Gunther Forg

Although Gunther Forg's work at first looks a world apart from the work I'm producing at the moment, I feel that they relate in a number of ways and to me, components that Forg's work contain, are things that I've been trying to gain in my own work.

His work contains vivid, clashing colours and his mark making is incredibly expressive and is a fantastic conductor of emotion. This form of mark making was something I originally looked at when I was struggling on finding a way to convey conversation. However for my work I found it too much of an obvious way to take my work and from that point on I looked at creating contrasts in my work instead.

Forg's seemingly spontaneous approach to his work, is something I can appreciate as I find that, when a piece has a feel of spontaneity about it, it adds movement and also in most cases, the random look of a piece is just an illusion. In my own work some people would say that it's just a bunch of random shapes although each shape has been strategically placed for full effect.