Astrig Akseralian via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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'mātriks / "source" / from "mater", Latin for "mother". We're real mothers for ya!
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Astrig Akseralian
- City: Cambridge
- Country: United Kingdom
My Life & Work
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Bio:
From a young age I have always had a desire to draw and wanted to be a potter. I had no doubt of my direction in life and have always pursued an artistic career. I studied Ceramics in London at the Central School of Art and Design and gained a BA Hons degree. After leaving college I ran a ceramics studio for some years in London, selling my work across the country to various galleries and shops. I also had a stall selling my work in Covent Garden artists' market.
After some years I decided on a career change, taking a job in the film industry at the Jim Henson Creature Shop where I worked as a freelance painter and art finisher. Over the next 25 years I worked in many Creature Effects and Prosthetic Make-up departments.
A fascinating job which was always challenging and one which took me to many locations around the world. I enjoyed the range of work and the fine detail and finish which was required, as well as the fun of working with some very talented creative people.
Since leaving the film industry and moving to Cambridge to live with my partner Nick, I have returned to my own work, rediscovering the freedom and pleasure in independent creativity. Being able to pursue my own artistic train of thought feels like a great luxury.
In my present work I am exploring mixed media and for me that currently consists of acrylic paint, pastels, charcoal, gesso and graphite. I enjoy experimenting with these and other materials and also with a mixture of surfaces. I have always taken a spontaneous approach being interested in trying to capture movement and energy in what I am viewing. Wherever possible I will work directly from my subject although I also work from sketches in my studio in the garden at home.
I hope you’ll enjoy browsing through my website showing past and most recent works. Please contact me if you have any queries.
Contact Information
- Email: astrigasartist@gmail.com
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Art: http://www.artfinder.com/astrig-akseralian#/
- ▶ Instagram: astrigakseralian
- ▶ Website: http://www.astrig.co.uk
- ▶ Blog: http://www.astrig.co.uk/blog-1
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging from New Orleans to Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... through Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
