Bourner, Guy
:

Visual Arts and Designer Makers,

Performance Art,

Installation,

Lighting,

Painter / 2D,

Visual Arts,
Over the past 7 years I have been making various types of paintings and experimentations, and since graduating in 2005 and have been focusing on simplifying a group of paintings in my studio in London. All of them are based on the premise that paint is better wet than dry; a common assumption of painting is that you paint a picture and the paint should dry. I have always seemed to want to challenge this assumption. I have always been interested in the process of a painting and the life of paint, from its state in a tube or can, to its mark onto a surface. I am not interested in re-inventing painting but like to look at what has been and what I can do that might be different. All my paintings begin with a drawing and I see this as a very important process which helps me to free my mind of ideas.
In the studio I try to have as few rules as possible, I think more like the type of work I don’t want to make and start from there. I believe that the fewer the rules I have the more ideas and accidents I encourage. I think everyone and everything can be vulnerable and my paintings are no different. I try to give them an element of fear and caution. I have always wanted to have the idea that a painting can live on - literally. That it can move with us, at the same speed. It can change its mind, change direction, disappear, live and die all at once. ..