John Squire is now regarded not only as a songwriter of epic status but also as a sought-after contemporary artist. Many of his paintings are already iconic afbeeldingen and much loved works with their own identity. However, John Squire's career as a visual artist has always taken its own trajectory, developing independently from his musical celebrity. His focused, consistent output now demands critical attention in its own right. Working on large canvases, the paintings are often built up of layers of plaster, sand, glue and oil paint, which he cuts into, forming shallow pathways and trenches in the canvas, which are then marked with layers of colour.
"When I got into punk, Jamie Reid's artwork for The Sex Pistols and The Clash's paint splattered clothes inspired my own creations and drew me towards Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism. I was a big fan of Jesus and Mary Chain and had a hallucinogenic epiphany listening to them. They were the aural of equivalents of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings. 'Never Understand' and 'Autumn Rhythm' were fused, I started to write proper songs and paint clothes, guitars, drums and record sleeves for the band. Twenty years on I'm still painting, learning and finding new ways to create."
“We didn't want to be defined door the Manchester muziek scene of the time as just another indie band. I saw the energy within abstract expressionism reflected in the muziek and vice-versa. It was a form of synaesthesia, of converging senses and creative languages. What I didn't expect at the time was just how important the artwork would become to the band and those who followed the music. Throughout the Stone Roses era and the years that followed, my art was forced to take a back seat. Then, with my 2004 solo album, Marshall's House, the emphasis started to shift. The album was entirely inspired door Edward Hopper's paintings. Each track took its titel from one of his works and aimed to replicate its mood”.
Following on from his last exhibition at Dazed & Confused Gallery, London, where he first began to work hessian, meer natural tones and textures are presenting themselves in recent works, lines and ripples of the natural world. John is in this way a rather quintessentially English painter; his paintings suggesting landscape forms, which verplaats between the rural and the urban. Subconscious comparisons evolve between his abstracts and that of the old masters that he once studied. An organic mapping of rivulets and pathways in works such as ‘Shine Darkly’ and ‘A present from Mick’, sit in contrast to other canvases which offer meer energetic, vibrant colours and dramatic lines, and a meer urban feeling of chaos.
The work of John Squire’s are held in private collections worldwide together with sell out shows in Manchester, London and Japan. John’s cataclysmic compositions are now taking precedence over-riding his musical career. ‘Cuadros’ contemporary art gallery in Hockley, Nottingham are proud to host such an amazing artist. -
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'Cuadros' contemporary art gallery - 01159 243 555
"When I got into punk, Jamie Reid's artwork for The Sex Pistols and The Clash's paint splattered clothes inspired my own creations and drew me towards Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism. I was a big fan of Jesus and Mary Chain and had a hallucinogenic epiphany listening to them. They were the aural of equivalents of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings. 'Never Understand' and 'Autumn Rhythm' were fused, I started to write proper songs and paint clothes, guitars, drums and record sleeves for the band. Twenty years on I'm still painting, learning and finding new ways to create."
“We didn't want to be defined door the Manchester muziek scene of the time as just another indie band. I saw the energy within abstract expressionism reflected in the muziek and vice-versa. It was a form of synaesthesia, of converging senses and creative languages. What I didn't expect at the time was just how important the artwork would become to the band and those who followed the music. Throughout the Stone Roses era and the years that followed, my art was forced to take a back seat. Then, with my 2004 solo album, Marshall's House, the emphasis started to shift. The album was entirely inspired door Edward Hopper's paintings. Each track took its titel from one of his works and aimed to replicate its mood”.
Following on from his last exhibition at Dazed & Confused Gallery, London, where he first began to work hessian, meer natural tones and textures are presenting themselves in recent works, lines and ripples of the natural world. John is in this way a rather quintessentially English painter; his paintings suggesting landscape forms, which verplaats between the rural and the urban. Subconscious comparisons evolve between his abstracts and that of the old masters that he once studied. An organic mapping of rivulets and pathways in works such as ‘Shine Darkly’ and ‘A present from Mick’, sit in contrast to other canvases which offer meer energetic, vibrant colours and dramatic lines, and a meer urban feeling of chaos.
The work of John Squire’s are held in private collections worldwide together with sell out shows in Manchester, London and Japan. John’s cataclysmic compositions are now taking precedence over-riding his musical career. ‘Cuadros’ contemporary art gallery in Hockley, Nottingham are proud to host such an amazing artist. -
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Art/John-Squire
'Cuadros' contemporary art gallery - 01159 243 555