Nick Garrett:  TEXT – Blood Love Courage

Making artwork for retail or public spaces requires great professional practice but also a DNA thing going on – career, culture, and connection to the industry all play a large part.

TEXT BLC shows what’s going on behind my creative innovation: modes, feelings, people, notions…

We are potentially the sum total greater than the constant measuring of immeasurable parts and things.

More clearly we can all create great things with huge effort and determination.

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Blood

Origins

Making

Streams

Paths

Layers

Weaves

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Marks

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Tattoos

Forms

Shapes

Harmonies

Uglow

Strife

Torn

Reconciled

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Love

Hate

Fear

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Black

Nalda

White

Grey

Colour

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Grief

Healing

Massaccio

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Love

Forgiving

Joy

Taste

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Courage

Raphael

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I started at a very young age meddling with some of these things… others stepped in or arrived by default… all conspired to help make great paintings and…