DRUMlins, set of three framed prints (Bill Hicks)
Artist Statement – Bill Hicks
Presently living in Fredericton, I have at various times lived in Miramichi, Edmundston, Saint John, Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver and a lot of places in between. At various times in these various places, I have been a painter, installation artist, columnist, cartoonist, administrator, dreamer and professional designer. Although influenced early on by the colours and textures of small town side streets and rural back roads of New Brunswick, it was while studying landscape architecture in Toronto that the heavy urban landscape became a major influence in the installation art that I made and exhibited there.
After returning to NB, I began doing watercolours and created the DRUMlins cartoon strip. The strip ran for over 16 years in the Miramichi Leader. The lowly steel drum containers, my cartoon characters, emphasize that somehow the mundane is relevant, the simple wise and the rusty always beautiful. The cartoon continues and has evolved into a long series of paintings. My stuff continues to be the result of a fascination with materials, textures, composition and the effects of time. I like to draw, paint and arrange in a way that illustrates the relationships we have with the things we use and discard.
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