Macbino is an occasional collector  Gender: Male Location: Bellport, NY Website: http://www.eonscott.blogspot.com I collect: old books The most I've spent on an item: $50 Annually I spend about: $25 I purchase a new item: 1 Time A Year A few words about myself: I am a member of what is referred to as the "art brut" movement, a growing category of art proffessionals who've never studied art in the traditional sense. We've always been involved in the artistic process albeit not in the conventional apparatus of art school or university training that is common to the subculture.
That said, I've always a been draftsman, drawing as a pursuit of leisure but having finally found a workspace where I can make a mess and have room to move, I've expanded full throttle into the painting medium. It's a new frontier but everything in art is related to the ability to draw and create an image. At least that's what I think. About my collections: I have a small Dickens collection and a volume of poetry by Bryant. I find these items by browsing independant used book stores and garage sales occasionally. About my interests: art, writing, books, travel, music and canadian football.
 Featured Interview: Space, Time and Paint
CQ: What would you say your painting style is? The style that probably best describes my work would have to be non- objective abstract expressionism. I think that best sums it up since I'm really not into painting precise realism and if I go over to impressionism (like Monet), which I've been known to do, or expressionism a la Picasso, I eventually grow bored and just let the creative instinct take over. I'm happiest when the rules are broken such that I can come up with a compelling image. Sometimes it works and sometimes it fails miserably, but that's show biz' I guess.
CQ: Who/what do you think has been your greatest influence? My influences span a pretty wide spectrum, I think. Everything from the Peanuts and Doonesbury newspaper comics that I used to read when I was a kid to much of the art that has come out of China in the last five to ten years. But I would have to split them up between drawing and painting. For drawing, I'm very much influenced by Rembrandt, DaVinci and Degas for his use of color and the Japanese ink drawings for their simplicity and reliance on gesture. I'm also very much in debt to Cy Twombly who I dismissed at first, but who revealed how one could think so far out of the box and yet still touch the eye. In painting, I'm influenced I think most of all, by Joan Mitchell. Like Twombly, she really stretched the limits of the imagination with her defiance of formal technique. Lately, I've been into this artist from Milan, Italy named Alessandro Papetti, another figurative painter but more formal in subject and structure. Along the same vein I have to plug a fellow by the name of Dan McDowell, from London, who does these great precise images of 1970's Times Square that incorporate this very interesting blurring technique. And I can't exclude Lucien Frued and Peter Doig as other contemporary fancies.
CQ: What amster (other?) work have you yet to paint? Well, I really want to get back into watercolors and more drawings on a larger scale. Watercolors fascinate me and I tend to paint from a more formal perspective; landscapes, still life's and what not. The same with the drawings but I tend to free up the hand more with pens and pencils. I'd also like to do more life studies and portraits.
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