Art And Parcel
About Artist - Robert Hogg
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'I was never very confident about my painting ability, possibly through being
self-taught, but more of an attitude to life perhaps, preferring to focus
mainly on exhibiting on the Mound Precinct by the National Gallery,
Edinburgh, for many years, during the Festival, along with another Dundee
artist, Micheal McVeigh and others, though I also sold paintings to a local
gallery from my early 20's for many years, as well as having them on sale in
numorous other outlets and galleries. I was also never very happy about them
being "hidden" in galleries once I finally got around to exploring the
internet, so I'm pleased to have the opportunity to be exhibiting paintings
here, where they can be seen more as a whole. Always very much a part-time
sometime artist, my intention now is to spend more time on it, adding more
paintings periodically, widening the scope of place and subject.
I've also come to see similarities in the style of my own work, and not to
name-drop, with the Austrian artist Bernhard Vogel, which far from being a
figment of my imagination, and never intentional, may well be a reflection
of the correct use of the imagination in the attempt to imbue a scene with a
quality of reality; the artists constant goal to evoke a response from him
or herself as well as the viewer, as much akin to music as to art. For which
reason I rend to find music the perfect accompaniment, from Brian Eno to The
Dillinger Escape Plan, from Beethoven to Glass orGiya Kancheli.'
Robert Hogg
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