Biography.
Art in all forms has always accompanied my music. The
way I
treat a new painting is little different to me than composing a piece
of music and there is nothing I like more than to merge the two forms.
In that way, I suppose you might say that this is an obsessive passion
which has been with me all my life!
I was lucky enough in my teens to be able to attend art school as a
normal part of my schoolwork at the Kings School, Canterbury alongside
my music training. In this foundation course I was given access to so
many different disciplines from paintings in oils through to
photography and design. This enabled me to produce a set of unique
music/poetry/arts workshops and performances which toured art colleges
and centres and me into co-organising events in the Cockpit Theatre and
other art centres in London together with a full arts festival called
‘Wake Up Folkestone’ (WUF).
In the 1970’s, through my involvement with rock and
principally,
psychedelic/progressive music, I started to develop and work with a
number of visual groups and artists including The Other Side, The
Coming, Arthur Brown, Robert Calvert of Hawkwind. This enabled me to
merge music, poetry, dance and drama with visual effects on stage to
produce a sort of visual rock music theatre.
At the end of the 1970’s, I was lucky enough to own one of
the
first generations of Apple Computers and from this, I started to work
with fledgeling computer graphics and arts software. Throughout the
1980’s I was able to use these techniques and the creative
freedom that the computer allows to produce many music album covers.
There then followed a long period of waiting for the right tools to
come along with computer technology and software.
In 2000, happily, this coincided with a most traumatic event in my life
when I was diagnosed with diabetes and severe neuropathy which has left
me a little disabled. However, it has allowed me to take up
painting again and work more closely in a multimedia way which uses a
mix of computer and abstract style with the traditional forms of
painting and drawing. The most important thing to me is in
it’s
completion and whether the art really works at the end of the day with
whatever technique that has been used to create it!
Over the past 8 years, I have tried to produce an eclectic body of work
that reflects my obsessive passions. As well as being able to reflect
this wonderful place here in Wales, several related themes accompany my
art and have enabled me to produce a number of painting and limited
edition print series based upon the Celtic and the Sacred that have
also been such strong influences in parallel with my music.
This has just culmonated with a new feature length Art/Music film
called ‘Rays of Light’
which has taken 8 years to complete
alongside International best selling writer John Sharkey providing a
truly evocative script. The 'Rays of Light'
film combines computer motion painted
techniques with my paintings and music.
Adrian Wagner, F. Comp. ASMC. 2009.
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