Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Interview

“So Paradiso’s Fall came to represent that dark desire that is innate within us all. That the correlation as an artist to change our external reality, to deconstruct so to represent our interior world, extends beyond the canvas, throughout mankind as a very fundamental human function.”
Speaking to Beautiful Bizarre.

And I mean, how splendid is this? In which I talk a little about my process for the series, dark art, living and working in Julian and future plans. There’s also a small preview of some of the pieces.

READ THE INTERVIEW HERE

I have to say, the publicity surrounding this show has completely bowled me over. After a decade of unveiling shows in a vacuum of seeming indifference, it’s been like a revelation. I am beside myself with gratitude. Thank you BB, Bella Harris, and Jeremy’s Schott and Cross of Dark Art Emporium. Just Stellar.

Two more nerve wracked sleeps before showtime, and all will be revealed.

Paradiso’s Fall-Trailer 2

Another little video feature, in which I talk about death and the art of living. Just some of the motivation for the piece “Whats Dark Within, Illuminate” for the show Paradiso’s Fall, this Saturday at Dark Art Emporium

Paradiso’s Fall First Trailer

Here’s something really cool-an epic teaser for the main event, something to whet the appetite.

Which is why I am delighted and honored by the stellar promotional video, that Dark Art Emporium has put together for my forthcoming show.

Concise, informative, beautifully edited, cuts to heart of my intentions, and best of all, I only appear in it handful of time over the four or so minutes.
But check out the art for Paradiso’s Fall, which I am immensely proud of.

A big thank you to both curators Jeremy Schott and Jeremy Cross.

SD Voyager Interview

“I guess my journey as an artist began with this overarching spiritual quest and being raised as I was, I’d found that the pulpit wasn’t doing it for me.”

In which I talk about my Liverpool origins, dark art and death and the San Diego art scene.

SD VOYAGER INTERVIEW

Having recently celebrated my thirteenth year since expatriating to the US, I’m delighted and heartened to have been chosen to be interviewed, given that this is only the third artists profile piece from my adopted hometown, in which I've exhibited at least a hundred times.

Hopefully, this is just the beginning of an alternative forum that is contrary to the dodgy editorial whims of a certain sinister press in the city-one that highlights artists and not just the closing of another gallery.

Rogues Gallery Featured artist for January

“In the studio he wields his brush over the fibers of his canvas with the precision and authority of a magistrate’s gavel… Weaving tapestries of man’s wonderment at the terror he poses to the world around him, and the terror he poses to himself.”

Kicking off the first day of the new year-in what hopefully is a shape of fortunes to come-I’m honored by having been chosen as Featured Artist for the month of January, in what is a beautifully eloquent article over on Rogues Gallery.

You can read the full article from the link below:

ROGUES GALLERY FEATURED ARTIST

Thank you so very much Steven Lee Matz at Intersekt Art

Illusion Magazine article

“His paintings are complex, for where there is kitsch and playfulness, there is also discomfort and violence, together gesturing towards an inevitable end for the bodies and cultural eras they depict.”

Hayley Evans-Illusion Magazine

Whilst I am sequestered on commission duties, here is a superbly eloquent article about yours truly. Thank you Hayley and Illusion mag. The title alone “Rot and Transformation” could be a career manifesto:

Read Here

Art and Cake Review

“In Van Gough’s vision, the devil is not in the details but in the distractions”

There’s a rather grand review of the recent Dark Realism/ Dark surrealism show at Gregorio Escalante gallery, up on Art and Cake LA.  I’m very grateful to the reviewer for their very astute and intuitive summation of ‘The Devil’-my piece in the show. You can read the full article from the link HERE.

The show is open until the 23rd of this month, so if you are in the area, please take a break from the shopping deluge of tinsel and tat, and soak up something that is more Satan’s grotto than the white bearded fella.

Artist interview with Coma Music Magazine

 ” I keep on regardless, because the notion is as inherently terrifying and nihilistic as the alternative…”

There’s a really nice interview I did with Coma music magazine recently, in which I talk about Art, Bowie, Ghost haunting’s, my top five current musical picks and what I would do in the event of a Zombie apocalypse, and you can read it from the link below.

Many thanks both to Coma and Anitra DeLorenzo.

Coma Interview

San Diego City Beat

“Nobody wants to come home, and be confronted with evisceration’s and mortal truths…”

Here’s quite a nice little recent mention, to accompany an article about Psychedelic Art, which appeared in a recent issue of SD City Beat. Cheers Seth and CB, even though you forgot to park the Van.

Healter Skelter featured in Real Crime magazine

Almost four years on from it’s inception, the Man/son series is still seeding its way into sidebar press. That the work was almost entirely neglected and ignored by all the usual suspects upon my exhibition’s release, says more about the status quo of the ‘art arbiters’ (or artbiters for short), than it does about public taste.

Certainly, it’s feature in John Borowski’s documentary, Serial Killer Culture on Netflix, afforded it a second life and a continued legion of new fans- which I am entirely grateful for.

Which is why I am delighted that John has an interview talking about all his films in this months Real Crime magazine, which is also illustrated by one of the pivotal pieces from the series-Healter Skelter.

The magazine goes on sale in Barnes and Nobel stores from December 17th-go on, spill someones eggnog when they open their Christmas stocking.

David Van Gough Interview on Taz

The superlative Italian online mag-Taz (short for the Art Zine) has included me amongst their six question coterie of artists. Anyway, its a splendid honor, and you can read my pithy elucidations here: 

TAZ DAVID VAN GOUGH INTERVIEW

Purgatorium Featured Spread in Visual Artistry Magazine

Just got  the heads up that those sterling folks over at Visual Artistry magazine, have featured the entire Purgatorium show as an eight page spread, in there September edition-page 44 for anyone paying attention numerically.

Not sure on the release date, but when it lands it will be available digitally and in printed form from HERE