Dave Crocker

In May 2022 I was diagnosed with cancer and given a short prognosis. Having spent most of my artistic life painting projects that involved immersing myself into different groups and locations, acting more like a participating observer (a phrase taken from Kate Mose's wonderful "Watching the English" book, I have decided to paint my life. 

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My values and philosophy 

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"Paint what you see, not what you know to be there"

Mr Terry (My secondary school art teacher)

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Fifty years later I still see new meaning in Mr Terry's words. I believe that painting is done as much with the eyes as it is with the hands.

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"The painting isn't finished until the viewer sees it"

Eric Kandel.

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I like that each viewer will see a painting differently using their own frames of reference, it enables me to paint lots of different versions of the same painting all at once. 

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