About CONAL FLAHERTY
I am consciously exploring the 'aesthetic', perfect, in colour, in tone and line, perfectly balanced, yet random, less created but rather formed.
It's a striving to achieve the perfect, to you the viewer and I the creator a possible clash of opinion yet with possibilty at becoming one.
You enjoy the colour? the simplicity of the colours? the straight unassuming lines? they go nowhere yet they lead somewhere, some magic needed I think!
I'm not there yet, don't think I have arrived yet, my journey like yours is as yet incomplete. I'm pleased to be a traveller, can't say I've had a bad journey, it's all been an experience, or as an old now forgotten friend used to say, "far out man"......
Born in 1953, Warrington, attended the local Art College, learned techniques, some history and thoroughly enjoyed myself, finding my way and developing my style or styles.
Got the interview for Goldsmiths, from which I would never look back, a young man of 19 on his way to London, except I didn't get through that interview and it changed my life, or did it?
I've eventually, through a lifetime found my way back, mentally, emotionally I'm returning to my life's work...bear with me.
All of my work in digital imagery, from concept to actualisation is self taught.
Each completed manipulation represents a combination approach, part by my own skills in selecting the appropriate image, with the software being the other contributor to the finished image.
For each image i may use the photo-editor in a different manner, sometimes i am unaware of how the image will turn out by application of this or that from various editing techniques.
The random expression through colour and texture is what i am looking to achieve, equally i hope that you the viewer find the images aesthetically pleasing? that they create a balance that offers a perfect image, a finished image, complete.
Concisely I am interested in the informal becoming formal, random becoming fixed, creating a fusion of colour, space and line.
