dylan izaak
REACH FOR THE SKY
Hand Embellished Edition on Board of 195 Size 28”x 22” FRAMED £575
"I exaggerate certain features and give them a twist here and there to accentuate their character"
Dylan’s quirky mixed media images are like nothing else on the current art market. Like him they are brimming with personality, humour and vivacity. He describes his world as ‘wonky’ saying: “I like to see objects not as one complete entity, but rather as the sum of their parts, almost as if many different shapes have been stuck together. This is how I approach my own artwork exaggerating certain features of buildings and giving them a twist here and there to accentuate the character that I see in it.” When creating his original works on aluminium, Dylan
creates an accurate sketch then draws over the top at speed to almost liberate the image – as he says, to allow for ‘happy accidents’ - then reworks the drawing many times until he likes what he sees. This means that although each piece is created with meticulous care and attention,
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they retain a strong sense of immediacy and spontaneity. He then begins the painstaking process of painting gloss paints into each individual shape that he has made. Once the whole piece is coloured he draws all the lines back on top with black paint. This time consuming process takes an average of 100 hours work for each piece. The creative process must begin with a definite moment of inspiration in Dylan’s wonky world. “If I don’t get excited about a subject then it probably won’t work. I will have an idea of how I want it to look and in order to achieve that I’ll use pretty much any medium I can, from paint brushes and pencils to a drawing tablet and a digital palette. I don’t really consider any medium out of bounds as long as it helps me create the image I have in my head.”
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