{"id":3322,"date":"2015-04-17T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T00:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2015-04-17T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T01:04:30","slug":"artchat-blog-interview-64-warren-salter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=3322","title":{"rendered":"Artchat [Blog Interview #64] &#8211; Warren Salter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"icon_link\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=3322\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WarrenSalter01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3336\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WarrenSalter01.jpg\" alt=\"Warren Salter\" width=\"760\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WarrenSalter01.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WarrenSalter01-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Artchat caught up with Warren Salter with some questions about his art and inspirations and about his current exhibition at <a title=\"Red Hill Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hill Gallery <\/a>in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>AC:\u00a0You have mentioned some world renowned artists such as Picasso, Monet, Dali and Streeton as influences, what is it about them or their works that influenced you and your artwork?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">WS:\u00a0Mainly its how these artists use their paint, deliberately avoiding photorealism, a painted look and tonal choices that give way to a surreal quality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>AC: What kind of art do you most identify with?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">WS:\u00a0Anything that suggests beauty to me, or imparts good will or suggests love. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WarrenSalter02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3337\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WarrenSalter02.jpg\" alt=\"Warren Salter\" width=\"760\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WarrenSalter02.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WarrenSalter02-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>AC: You have a distinctive personal style, how would you describe the collection of figurative and landscape works?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">WS:\u00a0These works in this latest exhibition are a projection of things that I feel strongly about, love, childhood memories contributing to the formation of the person, family, beauty in nature &#8230; for me, all of these things are a reflection of a benevolent universe. I paint in a fashion that suggests a surreal dream like feeling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>AC: Where do you find your inspiration for your painting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">WS:\u00a0I find inspiration in nature, music and people, though It would be better to say that inspiration finds me &#8230; usually after I have started an idea I am flying blind, the inspiration appears after a certain amount of labour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>AC: You have been surrounded by the creative arts since a young age, when did you know that painting would be your profession?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">WS:\u00a0I painted and drew prolifically as a child, and even sold my work at school.. I even studied art at college, but the idea of being a professional painter didn\u2019t arise until I moved to Queensland twenty years ago where I met artists making a living from their talents. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WarrenSalter03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WarrenSalter03.jpg\" alt=\"Warren Salter\" width=\"760\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WarrenSalter03.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WarrenSalter03-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><a title=\"Warren Salter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/WarrenSalter2015.html\" target=\"_blank\">Warren Salter <\/a>will be exhibiting at the <a title=\"Red Hill Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/artists.html\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hill Gallery<\/a>, 61 Musgrave Road, Red Hill throughout April 2015 alongside two prominent contemporary male artists <a title=\"Dan Mason\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/DanMason2015.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Mason <\/a>and <a title=\"Michael Parker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/MichaelParker2015.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Parker <\/a>in the exhibition &#8220;All Afloat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: \/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\u00a9 <a title=\"Red Hill Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hill Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=499790883388518\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=3322\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"150\" action=\"recommend\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share Artchat caught up with Warren Salter with some questions about his art and inspirations and about his current exhibition at Red Hill Gallery in Brisbane. 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