Opening Night :: September 3rd Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Tim Mount is a traditional artist from the UK.”
“Emma Mount was born with a pencil in her hand, and spent a lot of her childhood scribbling away furiously, her notebook came everywhere with her. Her early teens was lived in the 80′s, and she was hugely influenced by all the exotic women you started to see in pop videos like Duran Duran’s. She loved Nagel’s artwork like the Rio cover, and she also loved all the airbrushed Syd Brak women that were everywhere at that time. She used to draw all sorts, but started gravitating towards sketching from photos of fascinating women she saw in her mum’s fashion mags or her teen music mags. Her icons at the time were strong glamorous women like Debbie Harry and Kate Bush (and glam men of course like Bowie and Adam Ant). At the same time her fascination with the ‘dark side’ of life started to show itself as she discovered and grew up on Hammer Horror, the Addams Family, the Munsters, and started to build a collection of ghost/horror books that would influence her sketches.
She thinks her colourful oil portraits combine inspiration both from the influences of her youth, and from her many years working as a designer for a major cosmetics company in London. She has had a lifelong love of fashion, glamour, kitsch, pin-ups as well as all things ghoulish. Having worked as a designer she is very much caught up in the excitement of creation, and she loves the endless creative possibilities that come from painting, and making a canvas come to life.
She tries to paint subjects who are a little provocative, or challenging, or cheeky or unconventional. She likes the painting to have some ‘life’ or attitude about it. Its great to look to the burlesque world and challenge the conventional idea of what is beautiful, as a woman Emma is bored of body image and ideas of beauty fed to us in the media. She likes that these girls have an interesting mix of nostalgia (in their costumes), as well as being totally modern women, they are not afraid to be who they want, a fantasy even. She likes to make a tribute to them in some way, immortalise them in that moment, celebrating who they are and what they love to do – by doing what she loves to do. And the same goes for her series of film icons, its total nostalgia on her part, and again, a need to make some kind of tribute to those who have influenced her.”
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