I use charcoal, graphite, india ink, gouache, gesso, watercolor, acrylic inks, colored pencil, oil paint. The push-pull, resistance, and attraction of disparate materials presents a pleasant personal drama in creating a surface. I was a wrestler, perhaps in this way, I still am.
I think of them primarily as drawings, though there are some painterly aspects. I work on a variety of surfaces, mostly papers, often times mounted to board. This provides stiffness and durability with just enough give.
Each work is approached as a lucid dream: navigated through intuition and response, with one agenda- to dive as deep as possible. I follow hints of meaning, threads of new myths, emergent symbology...there are recurring motifs that surface time, time, & time again: the heart-lollipops, busted horses, warrior sorceresses (Nimue), a particular Ford truck, cyclopian helmets; and repeated themes: awe, fear-love, love-fear, true power vs. illusive power, transformation/transmutation, adolescent magic and adult enchantment. I use direct observation, imagination, memory, photographic reference when necessary, and some amount of luck.
Jim Clark is a draughtsman, a painter, a teaching artist, and curator.
In addition to his personal expressive drawing, painting, and sculpture, he has illustrated a number of independent comic books, including Colliders and Henri L’Ouest.
I think of them primarily as drawings, though there are some painterly aspects. I work on a variety of surfaces, mostly papers, often times mounted to board. This provides stiffness and durability with just enough give.
Each work is approached as a lucid dream: navigated through intuition and response, with one agenda- to dive as deep as possible. I follow hints of meaning, threads of new myths, emergent symbology...there are recurring motifs that surface time, time, & time again: the heart-lollipops, busted horses, warrior sorceresses (Nimue), a particular Ford truck, cyclopian helmets; and repeated themes: awe, fear-love, love-fear, true power vs. illusive power, transformation/transmutation, adolescent magic and adult enchantment. I use direct observation, imagination, memory, photographic reference when necessary, and some amount of luck.
Jim Clark is a draughtsman, a painter, a teaching artist, and curator.
In addition to his personal expressive drawing, painting, and sculpture, he has illustrated a number of independent comic books, including Colliders and Henri L’Ouest.