fineart4jesus
fineart4jesus
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| Member | Oct 13, 2016 (9 years) |
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Bio
Experience
• In 2016 Ian took the plunge into full-time art as a professional. After 4 years of false starts and some moments of angst, a small art gallery/studio has opened of his original art and reproductions with this website show casing his art, photography, products and services.
• From 2012 after a major cathartic experience Ian started the journey to become a full time fine artist, craftsman, illustrator and photographer in his own right. The subsequent years spent between photography, graphic and some painting, carving and setting up a brand ID for the legacy of Ian Anderson Fine Art (IAFA). The full time goal is, painting, poetry, photography, illustration, leather art, book publishing, gift wares, reproduction prints and education.
• Multi award winning wedding and portrait photography and oil painting in recognition for excellence Australia, New Zealand and The USA.
• Political and editorial cartoonist illustrator for The Christchurch Press, Wellington Evening Post and The Dominion.
• Ian worked as a graphic artist illustrator with over 30 years experience in a variety of commercial and non commercial studios, including being an Assistant Art Director, Creative Director, fashion illustrator, editorial illustrator, political cartoonist, campaign director and as a general artist learning many of the twists and turns in the industry.
• Conversant with creative technologies (Mac, Adobe, Microsoft, WordPress).
• Familiar with current trends in management thinking and still learning because it always seems to be changing.
• Highly developed graphic, fine art, photography, leather craft carving, illustration and digital art skills.
• Moderately successful multi award winning wedding and portrait photographer.
• Managing Director of Legal Graffiti Design Ltd and Hot Shots Creative Photography in Warkworth, New Zealand.
• Commercial and real estate photographer.
• Past president of Business Networking International (BNI), Orewa and Warkworth, New Zealand.
• Past Committee member of Warkworth Squash.
• Past Committee member of Warkworth Business Association.
• Solo, invite, joint and retrospective exhibitions of paintings with works hanging in private, business and government collections world-wide.
• Successful advertising campaigns, art direction and project management.
• Tutored in creative illustration, portraiture, painting, photography, cartooning and leather work in Christchurch, Auckland and Warkworth, New Zealand.
• Leather craftsman and studio commercial artist in Christchurch, New Zealand after I had a conviction of conscience and went back to Perth and fronted up to my past.
• 4 years in the drug scene as a hippy in the early 70’s and moved to New Zealand in 1974 on the run with a police record.
• Artist craftsman working primarily in leather and the folk art counter culture of the early 70’s.
• Commercial advertising artist and neon designer in Perth, West Australia.
• Junior clerk, postman and store-man in Perth, West Australia.
Passions:
• Wind surfer in the making.
• Squash, cycling, swimming and tennis keep my heart rate pumping.
• Unashamedly, Jesus is the doorway to all my love and joy.
Cathartic experience:
You’ve probably heard the statement, “Artists don’t make money before they die”, “Being an artist is not a real job”, “Artists have hopeless business minds” alongside all the other dream stealing conversations that people so innocently and ignorantly throw at many of the creatives in our society. One morning I realised how I had taken all that junk on board and an angry stubbornness rose up within me. Who has the right to tell me I can’t or won’t succeed with my gifts while I still have to pay the accountant and electrician, buy clothes for my back and food for my belly but I won’t make money while I am alive because i am an artist. It all seemed so unfair that I was lumbered with this monkey on my back telling me I could not fulfil my dream as a fine artist. Then to add salt to my wound, supposedly after I am dead others will make capital gain on my poverty inflicted useless paintings that no one would pay for because it served no real value in our society. I was on my knees to heaven and asked for some direction, some wisdom and there it was a new passion was born. I was gifted to pursue my dream and no one had the right to kill my dream.
That mornings wake up call put fire in my belly and I set sail to prove the dream stealers wrong. I wrote a poem and story about my revelation and I now have a vision to paint from the insight. I plan to create the painting later in my journey … so watch this space.
At the time of seeing all this with my new mindset made me realise I am gifted so why don’t I use what I have in stock photography, old drawings, paintings and leather work to frame up, put it on a wall and built a website for the world to see and let you decide if it has appeal. Which all this in mind in 2012 I went to Melbourne in Australia to spend 2 days at a Salvador Dali exhibition where my passion was further developed at the National Gallery of Victoria. I realised I was missing out because I undervalued who I was and what I was gifted to do. I stood in front of a Rembrandt and wept my heart out. My passion was further enhanced when in conversation with my niece over a cup of coffee on the Yarra River she blurted out this profound statement. “Just paint what you want to paint and let us decide”. I’m now forever grateful to Jade.
So here I am, after a long roller coaster ride of emotions, my presentation is now here for you to decide. Just buy before I die so I can pay for my own head stone as a successful artist and not have the Government foot the bill pay for a poor artists grave. Let me leave a legacy behind for other generations to be inspired by and a brand copyright that will capitalise on the financial markets desire to own a dead artists works.
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