Monday 18 March 2019

Andrew Barber

This week's featured artist is also the latest addition to Historic Car Art’s curated artist collection.


Andrew talks to Rupert Whyte of Historic Car Art about his background and influences.
RW: What is your background?
AB: I have a degree in Automotive Design followed by a career in car design, mainly in design consultancies, but also in manufacturer’s studios in the UK, Sweden, South Korea, and the USA.
RW: How would I describe your style?
AB: Dynamic impressionism.
RW: What is your inspiration?
AB: I am striving to convey the effect cars in motion have on my senses. Primarily visual, but also aural.
RW: What are your influences?
AB: The image that has had the greatest influence on mytechnique is; ‘Nu descendant un escalier’ (Nude descending a staircase) painted by Marcel Duchamp in 1912 (below). Duchamp has portrayed movement in a series of overlaying stills. The image is monotone, whereas in my work I haveinteracted the primary image with the preceding ‘after images’. The ‘after image’ being the complementary colour which persists after the eyes have lingered on strong colours.
RW: What are your favourite motorsports?
AB: Although many of my images are of F1 and endurance racing, I admire the creativity of the designers, and the skill and bravery of the drivers in all types of racing.
RW: What are your favourite cars?
AB: In aesthetic terms, in F1 it’s Dan Gurney’s Eagle, in endurance racing it’s the Jaguar ‘C’ Type.
Available to buy in small editions as vibrant giclée prints on beautiful pearl-lustre paper, or high-resolution direct digital prints on brushed aluminium panels, we think the art will enhance any modern room setting or motor-house.

Contact Historic Car Art for more information.

We have been given access to some of Andrew's work. Please respect copyright.

More artists on in2motorsports.com here.






Sunday 10 March 2019

Images of Christophe Noirot

Its been a while since we had a photographer featured here. So, we'll put this right today and all this week, looking at the work of Christophe Noirot. Enjoy.



Born in France it didn't take him long to realize his passion. Photography in various forms has fascinated him since he was a child, so he never stopped learning and has since accumulated technical and practical expertise in this field.
Art was also important to him. In 2011 he put his professional activity on pause to devote his time exclusively to the creation of artistic images. It took him a while before he publicized any of these images. In face, it was only in 2016 when he started showing these pieces in public.
In 2018 he joined the Team France Bocuse d'Or for artistic illustration, photography and digital paint.
His main specialty was still life, main subject being plants, where he creates amazing images shifting between short and long depths of field as well as long exposure photography.
Christophe spends most of his time creating abstract images, taking care to dissect every corner of the subject. The subtle hues earn the visitor’s attention.
As with acrylic paint, the outlines of the image are not visible. You can be carried away by the particular sensation of infinity. The eye can see the luminous flux in the colored and dark areas.
This is his photographer personality wishing to share his colorful dreams with you.
Its good to note that all the photographic effects are obtained during the shooting—without any re-touching.
The only exception would be the photographs of the vehicles, which are retouched with digital software.
Since February 2018, Christophe NOIROT is an official artist for Le Mans 24 hours.
Although he used to travel often, Christophe now prefers “to travel to the end of the street.”
Among Christophe’s artistic influences are Joseph Sudek and Michel Semeniako. Artistic creation provides him deep serenity.
Christophe is a sensitive person with an eye for detail. Photography naturally reflects his emotions.
More about him on his website here.
Also, you can check him out on Facebook here.
He has kindly sent us some of his work to share with our readers. As always, please respect copyright.





Sunday 3 March 2019

Ian Guy Motoring Artist


First featured in 2014, Ian is back to give us a heads up on what's been happenning in the past 5 years and of course add a few of his latest pieces to the blog. Enjoy. . .

Written by Ian Guy;

I know it’s a standard Automotive Artist’s cliché but I really have been drawing and painting since I was a kid. I would, in my very early days, disappear into whatever I was painting and become a part of a self made fantasy.

So you can imagine how this progressed through my childhood and into my teens, from Disney to the dark and dismal places you can only go as a troubled teen, and later my love of cars inspired a need to create long dusty roads for me to travel and of course I can’t deny the great influence of the ‘70s and ‘80s TV shows and movies where the car is the star.

Professionally I have always used oils on canvas but as I was growing up I shyed away from colour, it wasn’t somewhere I wanted to go. When I look back over quite a troubled childhood I can see that I was creating a lot of very dark images using heavy black pencil or ink on paper, colour wouldn’t have lent it’s self kindly to my mood, or what I was wanting to express.

I think I drew myself out of a dark hole until I was ready to accept colour with a cautious embrace. At the same time a close uncle had passed away, he had painted colour-by-numbers in oils as a hobby and later on whilst sorting through his things my Aunt found his oil paints and gave them to me.

Read more about Ian Guy, find out how to contact and connect with him and see more of his work here.

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