The Artistic Urge from Prehistory to the Present.

Without noticing I have followed in Cy Twombly’s footsteps with my obsession with drips. I recently felt the need to revisit the artists that I was originally looking into, the artists whom I felt had similar interests in the primitive and raw mark making which links us to our ancestors. I was originally looking at Cy Twombly’s early work which has a lot of space and pencil markings. I had not consciously noticed his later works. I was surprised to find that I had in fact not moved away from the vein of contemporary art that held my interest. My art had strangely progressed in the same way. These paintings are not dissimilar to my own, and although Cy Twombly is an accomplished master beyond his time, its strange that I have followed a similar path unaware.