Loui Jover

Art..........Cartoon............Thought

"Right now I like making ink drawings on adhered together sheets of vintage book paper, there is a fragility to these images that I find interesting (as if the wind may blow them away at any moment) and the hand drawn stark black lines against the intricate printed words of the book pages offer a strange fusion and depth that seems to give the images a kind of 'meaning' and back story, even though unconnected in a contrived way. I never pick the image for the pages or visa-versa they just collide as chance permits, any meaning they may have is purely created by the observer and their own imaginings."

I have drawn since childhood and as other children stop at some point in their development I never did.

I draw obsessively every single day filling books with ideas, cartoons and drawings.

So my drawing abilities seem to have developed in natural progression giving me the ability to freely use a number of distinct styles and approaches.

I have formally studied commercial and graphic art and hold an advanced certificate in visual communication.

I was employed and served as an 'illustrator reprographic' in the Australian Army, This job included regimental photography and related darkroom pr...

art college

A S & N Gallery ..The Rocks Sydney 1996
The Gold Coast Art gallery Queensland 1996
Moulton Gallery.. Mosman Sydney 1997
many group and collective shows 1998 - 2009
The Tap gallery Darlinghurst Sydney 2012

http://www.mildred.co/issue-34/arts-sake/loui-jover/
http://theartcrown.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/loui-jover-keats-of-romantic-ink-drawing.html?spref=fb
Art tempers my spirit, it gives me direction. Without art I would most likely be a psychopath. One can spend a lifetime looking at the world but seldom do they “see” anything. My art helps me to “see” life around me, without art things seem brutal and pointless.
Zoneone Arts excerpts from an interview;
http://www.zoneonearts.com.au/2014-01-13-loui-jover.htm
You comment, ‘I paint, I draw, I do this every day.’ Can you elaborate on this comment?
The comment you refer to in your first question can be taken literally in the sense that ...I "do" draw & or paint everyday..I am not saying this is extraordinary but have made it a kind of 'catch phrase' or mantra or even an affirmation of sorts. I have made drawings be it cartoons or elaborate inks for as long as I can truly remember, I do not use this as a cliché the cliché was born from people like me...drawing is the very...