Gareth Bunting
I make large scale ink drawings which document a particular period of time in my life. They are grand, vast landscapes which draw the viewer in. My piece 'The Golden Circle' documented my experience of a road trip around Iceland, It is a rough map, which focuses on the things which interest me. On the road trip I sketched and took photographs, and created the drawing based on the images I had, and merged them together with images from my own imagination. This makes the work personal to me as it contains ideas and memories I had on the trip. I play with scale and distort the perspective of the landscapes. They contain repeated imagery, and tell stories along lines. The mixture of drawing from real life and my own imagination creates a dreamlike impact on the viewer, and incorporates an array of images into one whole static art piece. I am interested in the language of comic books and their ability to tell a story through the panels. I am using sequential images in the same way in my large drawings. Comic book panels give the reader a sense of time, and in my large drawings, time flows across the physical space of the landscapes, making time and space one and the same. 'Voyage to Kathmandu' was created after a trip to Nepal, it relates to a comic book I had made, which told a personal, political and direct story. The comic acted as a reference book to the large scale drawing and translated it to the viewer. I love indulging in my own imagination and have created my own colourful, imaginary world with an array of characters, which I can use to tell stories. 'Mad Cactus' is a book of digital drawings, which experiments with colour and figures, it contains many short stories, with no text and are often only one page long. It experiments with sequential images, composition, colour, repeated imagery and story telling. The stories often relate to one another in some way, and most of my art pieces are connected together by subtle or not so subtle references.



