Stephen Doig
Kia ora. I'm an Aotearoa/New Zealand born artist who nurtured my drawing skills via dreamy, absent-minded doodlings in the margins of school textbooks. A few years later, my subsequent teenage forays into impressionism, abstract art, and various other praiseworthy artistic styles might have been best described as 'hamfisted'. Even so, these unpromising early efforts somehow managed to clear the way for a technique which came much more naturally to me in adulthood - photorealism - a style combining my enjoyment for both detailed graphite pencil drawing and photography. The immediacy and simplicity of putting pencil to paper still greatly appeals to me, and through my artworks I feel compelled to try and capture the beauty in the overlooked, and the drama within the commonplace.
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