Rick Hawkins
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Rick Hawkins (hamletnc)
Education and activities
- Biography
I was born in Sydney at a very early age and resolved to become an artist immediately; unfortunately I had forgotten my resolution by the time I was three! Now I am older and have taken to art again: drawing, especially with Rapidograph pens, painting in acrylics and even hacking away at Hebel blocks to make sculptures. I hope someone can enjoy my images and I'm keen to converse with other artists via the internet and talk about anything to do with art. Besides art and making art, my other passions are scuba diving and underwater photography, wandering through forests and music.
- Exhibitions
None (yet).
My favourites
- Artist
Klee, Titian, Marc, Van Gogh, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Picasso, Gauguin, Margaret Preston, Godfrey Miller, Manet
- Movie
Moulin Rouge and all the Baz Lurhmann movies, Les Enfants du Paradis, La Règle du jeu, Henry and June, Thin Red Line
- Literature
Joyce, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Flaubert, Kerouac, Gore Vidal, Paul Theroux
- Music
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The Go Betweens
- Interests
Art, music, literature, nature, scuba diving
Comment Wall 4
Abraham Fisher wrote on 17. February 2010, 16:56:42:
Thank you Rick for your very kind comment on my work.
Marla Lombard wrote on 30. November 2008, 18:02:36:
We may yet figure out this form of communication! At least I'm on your wall now! Yes, I can imagine underwater feels as you describe and I think your paintings reflect that controlled but beyond control, too.
Thanks for the kind words.
Rick Hawkins wrote on 28. November 2008, 12:38:11:
Thanks Marla, I'm not sure what The Wall is either, yet, but hopefully you can read this:
Yes, it is beautiful underwater, and it can be sort of fearful too. Often I find the concentration of taking photos underwater helps my mind deal with the strangeness of being in an alien realm. At the same time, I often feel completely at home underwater so that's a paradox. None of my underwater-themed paintings is actually directly from a photo I've taken (and I've got a lot of my scuba pix here: http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=gallery&l=hamletnc) but there must be an influence.
Anyway, paint on! Your paintings are real eyeball-pleasers!.
Rick
Marla Lombard wrote on 28. November 2008, 06:42:36:
Rick! Thanks for question--I obviously don't know how to work the walls yet because I answered your question on my wall--I think!! And I didn't read your profile clearly before I asked my question.
So, I start again:
I use acrylic, ink, pigment, dye and concentrated watercolor on panel.
And I do have an underwater imagery question for you: It must be so beautiful underwater...do you take photos to work from or work from memory or ?
Thanks!
Marla