Artist Biography
Richard P Wazejewski. B.17/3/59
‘I've always had an overwhelming desire to find a 'voice' and to harness my feelings and ideas, my dreams and visions. Motivated by the desire to liberate the workings of the subconscious mind; disrupting conscious thought processes by irrationality and enigma, and perhaps find a unique voice and share with others that which I'd discovered'.
Claire A Waterhouse. B.29/11/66
‘Relying on my very first memories, I have always realised that my destiny and ambition was directed somewhere in the artistic world. My teaching experience has enabled my own concepts to develop, and I embrace the opportunity to work in all mediums. Whilst I am constantly working in practical materials through my teaching, I particularly relish the cleanliness of the computer as a tool, with the ability to revisit and tweak compositions to absolute perfection'.
Artists Statement
Most certainly, digital advancements have enabled the dawn of a new artistic era, still in its infancy, but vastly expanding. The computer enables the artist to make real their wildest fantasies or darkest fears. This is what we aim to achieve in our artwork; sometimes in a beautiful and poetic way, at other times in the more wild and hideous of ways, or maybe a comfortable juxtaposition of the two.
The techniques used by the digital artist are no different from the skills employed by the potter, painter, sculptor, photographer or printmaker. It must be remembered that the computer remains a tool that only the human being can control. The manipulation of materials and craftsmanship should be appreciated, no matter the tool that the artist or craftsperson chooses to use.
Image editing software enables us to explore mixed media, without any fear of failure. Photoshop offers the artist to experiment with realism and abstraction to an unlimited degree. Each image comprises of dozens of layers, each and every composite tweaked to absolute perfection within the composition. The only difficulty is knowing where to stop.
“We work collaboratively in our creations, constantly throwing ideas back and forth, from the collection of source materials, initiation of an idea through to final conclusion and print. We appreciate a wide range of art, particularly the surreal, dada, and elegiac image.
Passionate in our collection of nostalgic junk, we relish the regular forage at skips and dumps, car boot sales and second hand shops, where we collect inspiration for our digital dreams.
Our artwork takes us on unplanned journeys, as each piece develops organically over substantial time before we are happy to release the fully fledged article”
Claire Waterhouse & Richard Wazejewski
