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the two worlds of DARVIN JONES
arvin Jones is a local artist, who allows no boundaries for himself when creating art and making music. His latest series of paintings, Nomenclature, evokes a sense of wonder and a wide array of emotions from the viewer, with symbolic imagery that reflects the nature of music and art. Darvin studied sound art and musicology at Evergreen State College in Washington and earned a Master of arts in acoustic ecology and soundscape composition at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. After spending years in the world of sound, he stumbled into painting and found an immediate gratification from the direct tangibility that exists in visual art. His art is based solely on composition where simplicity, clean lines, the enticement of color and an unrequited passion guide the process. “There is no method to what and how I paint except that I begin with a vision and statement I wish to produce”. After the initial point of departure his artistic process is left to ‘chance’ and a collapse of objective foresight. “My work begins and ends in inspiration and constantly evolving as an artist, the worlds concens are left at the door and subjectivity is fully embraced while the compositional principles explored”. Jones curiosity in painting is found in the interplay between nature and urban development, consumption and waste, displacement and adaption, communication and ecology and pop culture and the loss of meaning in our contemporary landscape. Ultimately though his artistic mission is simple, “I just want to make art that gives me happiness and in return makes others happy. Painting for me is an infusion of power, of energy or expression based on growth, instead of the historical models based in self defeating artistic suffrage, which gets you nowhere”. Check out his “Eco-Art” collection at Viva Day Spa, one of our top-rated spa’s that he visually transformed with his stunning work. Nomenclature, his new work on exhibit at Austin Details Art + Photo from May 12-July 1, brings his two worlds together to give definition and meaning to the intersections of art and music. www.darvinjones.com / http:// launch787.com/general/the-two-worlds-ofdarvin-jones-2/