Marcus Usherwood (member artofimagination.org)
Mentor: Brigid Marlin (Mische Technique), Founder: artofimagination.org
Inspirations: Bosche, Beardsley, Eischer, Giger, Fuches

My personal work is something that I do not deliver as a contribution to art. For me the art part is an aspect, as a wheel is to a car or a high healed shoe intimates the suggestion of a beautiful woman. Beauty that beholds the eye of the beholder.
The paintings that appear on my personal pages are a large selection of my life's work.
Most of the paintings here are executed using airbrushed acrylics combined with a small brush with occasional shielding or masking for effect. My most recent techniques have involved the "mische technique" passed on to me by Brigid Marlin and paintings that combine pastel which are like dry oils with airbrushed acrylics.
Prior to my introduction and instruction from Brigid in 2005. I taught myself. Flirting with different materials and substances in my formative stages to settling down with what I know works. At one instance on just one painting I even used an aftershave mix for rock surface texture. For me all that matters are the results.
Which brings me on to the real driving force behind my work.
The major aspect that I consider as a painter is language. But as an artist the means whereby I can commune directly and deeply meanings and experiences first or second hand that transcend audible languages. Images communicate directly what words can only intimate.
I consider each painting I do must be sincere in anatomical and scientific plausability to be convincing. Combining the very practical natural world with the spiritual creates a means of communication to which I will find myself answerable to God for good or for error.
To do this in the context of absolute truth must incorporate the revelations and insights of the Holy Bible.
These paintings that I paint aside from commissioned work are a means by which something can be proclaimed aloud, Either by personal revelation, or prompting of moral or ethical unction. Many of my earlier works biblically are questionable but pay tribute perhaps more to the world of surrealism devoid of explanitary notion aside from art critic rhetoric.
All present and future paintings will reflect the beauty of the natural world, or prophecy, revelation or vision.
Heaven and Hell, Resurection, The nature of angelic activity,vSpiritual warfare, Salvation, The crucifixion, Abortion, Holocaust, Tribulation, Causes for the glee of devils, defeat of devils, the destuction of the devil and his angels. And the second coming of Christ

Marcus Usherwood