STEVEN ARON WILLIAMS
Hello! I’m Steven and the ART SHOP is my little venture into the art world.
My inspirations are often fragments of memory or thought of a certain time, place or encounter. A non linear visual diary of sorts. My travels, popular and queer culture are recurring themes, as are ideas about identity, politics, mortality and commemoration, all bound together in a style which finds its origins in the cartoons of my childhood. The Beano, Disney, Hanna Barbera and all that jazz.
I saturate paper in layers of colour and line with a sense of spontaneity once the intimidation of the white surface is overcome. As my work evolves, in some instances beyond the paper itself, I settle into a state of reflection about the initial trigger. My mind wanders, emotions are agitated and experiences re-lived. Some details become less relevant whilst other elements are exaggerated, twisted by time, leading to a heightened, distorted, sometimes abstracted impression of the original idea. There is an ever present tension between black and white, life and death, and the colour of everything in between.
It’s an introspective, often subversive process underpinned by anxiety, ageing and a dark humour; an attempt to make sense of the world and my place in it.
ART SHOP is an extension of my practice, an opportunity to get out of the studio, connect, curate and celebrate like minded artists and generally just to have some bloody good fun…
@stevenaronwilliams