“Start from something organic” – those were the words of one of my first tutors at Glasgow School of Art.
Whenever over the years I have strayed from this advise the result has been in most cases disastrous.
Now as I move into digital painting his words come back to me with even greater force: how do you combine the real world with the digital world which plays an even greater part in our lives each day?
“Start with something organic” was something of a mantra at Glasgow School of Art and I remember it now as I mosh data in the computer to create images that tell us something new about the world that we are in yet have their roots firmly in the organic world around us.
In the case of this digital painting ” Knock on the sky and listen to the sound” – based on a Zen saying – the source material was a rose grown in my garden.
