An extremely influential artist to me is ‘Banksy’.
I enjoy the cleverness of his work, and the statements he makes using spray-paint. Using the suburban landscape as his canvas, he sneakily portrays his work in secret. Many of his works seen on walls, cars, roads, anything he chooses, is very inspiring to me.
I feel his work has certain aspects to mine, by using bold images and paint in my work has helped me to develop my own expression and interpretation.
I also like to work with similar ideas of contemporary world issues.
The image above called ‘Air War’ (2012) is a photo silkscreen print with acrylic paint. I wanted to give the viewer the feeling of power and war in this piece. The eagle I wanted to use as a sign of patriotism, and the bomb symbolic of nuclear weapons.
When thinking about the composition of the work, I decided to make it look like the eagle was trying to catch the bomb with its claws.
