{"id":3868,"date":"2016-07-28T14:23:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T04:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2016-07-28T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T04:35:38","slug":"artchat-blog-interview-87-david-hinchliffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=3868","title":{"rendered":"ArtChat [Blog Interview #87] \u2013 David Hinchliffe"},"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=3868\" 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>ArtChat recently spent 5 minutes with Brisbane\u00a0artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/DavidHinchliffe2016.html\">David Hinchliffe<\/a>, to discuss his upcoming exhibition and recent trips overseas. His latest exhibition at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/index.html\">Red Hill Gallery<\/a>\u00a0features the energy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyork.com\/\">New York City<\/a>, the chaos of Havana, the romance of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.parisinfo.com\/\">Paris<\/a>, together with the architecture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitlondon.com\/\">London<\/a> and iconic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitbrisbane.com.au\/\">Brisbane<\/a> landmarks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3873\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"1416\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1-1.jpg 1416w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1-1-300x48.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1-1-768x123.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1-1-1024x163.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1416px) 100vw, 1416px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: What&#8217;s your philosophy about art?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DH: Art doesn&#8217;t change the world, my opinion however, it does change the way we see the world. \u00a0That&#8217;s my job as an artist: to help people see the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC:\u00a0You have painted\u00a0so\u00a0many different parts of the world, do you have a favourite location to paint?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DH: \u00a0I keep finding new places to paint, in addition to my regular painting visits to New York, London, Paris, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydney.com\/\">Sydney<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitmelbourne.com\/\">Melbourne<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;ve just come back from running a painting workshop in Bali and that was special. \u00a0But I have to say the more exotic destinations like Marrakech and Fez in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morocco.com\/\">Morocco<\/a> and Havana in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcuba.com\/\">Cuba<\/a> are still my favourites&#8230;along with Brisbane of course.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3874\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2-1.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"1489\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2-1.jpg 1489w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2-1-300x59.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2-1-768x152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2-1-1024x202.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1489px) 100vw, 1489px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC:\u00a0We loved\u00a0the\u00a0photos\u00a0of your recent trip to\u00a0Bali, can we expect to see some of your\u00a0Bali\u00a0paintings in the near future?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DH: \u00a0Absolutely. I especially loved the Balinese people and culture, I&#8217;d never been to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baliguide.com\/\">Bali<\/a> before. I guess I was put off by so many Australians going there. But I was surprised to find most of the people hadn&#8217;t been corrupted by the commercialism and tourism that has swamped a few parts of Bali. It was painting the people that I really enjoyed most, partly because my first love is figurative painting and partly because the people were so lovely and willing to be painted. (See pic of Balinese girl at Candidasa.) I&#8217;d be delighted to share those paintings in the months ahead.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3870\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Bali-Painting.jpg\" alt=\"Bali Painting\" width=\"244\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Bali-Painting.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Bali-Painting-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC:\u00a0It has been hinted that there is going to be a double David Hinchliffe exhibition in the\u00a0future, can you tell us more?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DH: \u00a0It all started a few years ago when there was some internet confusion about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhinchliffeartist.com.au\/\">David Hinchliffe artist<\/a> (Brisbane) and <a href=\"http:\/\/davidhinchliffe.co.uk\/\">David Hinchliffe artist<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitsomerset.co.uk\/\">Somerset UK<\/a>). I got in touch with the U.K. David and he and his wife Patsy invited me to their home and studio in lovely Somerset. \u00a0That was about 4 years ago and the friendship has grown and each year we visit the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy. (See pic.) We even have very similar painting styles, although he has an OBE after his name! \u00a0I&#8217;ve invited him and Patsy to Brisbane and I&#8217;m hopeful that might result in a joint exhibition &#8212; &#8220;Two David Hinchliffe\u2019s are better than One&#8221; is the working title!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3869\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Other-Hinchliffe.jpg\" alt=\"The Other Hinchliffe\" width=\"321\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Other-Hinchliffe.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Other-Hinchliffe-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: \u00a0What do you like most about\u00a0the\u00a0Luxembourg Gardens?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DH: Luxembourg gardens in Paris has been attracting artists for 2 centuries, particularly the impressionists at the end of the 19th century. It&#8217;s just down the road from the Pantheon and near the Sorbonne but its attraction is the relief it offers to the local built environment. I love the cafe in among the tightly planted rows of trees on the Pantheon side of the park where the local head waiter terrorises customers. I know him now and I know his gruff wiles and ways, so I enjoy observing how new patrons respond to his very Parisian style of &#8216;waiting&#8217;. I&#8217;ve sat at that cafe many times painting the dramatic light and shade and the shapes of people moving in and out of those regimented rows of trees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: \u00a0In your current exhibition you have a\u00a0small number\u00a0of paintings\u00a0(for example\u00a0Marrakesh)\u00a0that are different from you usual style,\u00a0can we expect to see more of this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DH: My ambition as an artist is to try to capture the personality of the cities I visit. No two cities are alike. Parts of some cities might resemble parts of others, but I hope I am able to reflect their individuality in slightly different styles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: \u00a0What style of art do you\u00a0personally\u00a0collect?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DH: \u00a0I don&#8217;t collect a lot of paintings partly because I don&#8217;t have room enough to hang them! \u00a0I do like representative painting &#8211; I like a painting to look like something. However I also love pure abstraction, paintings that don&#8217;t have any specific elements. I find I enjoy a painting that holds my attention. It needs to represent something. My favourite paintings were painted by my father when he was just a young teenager. (See pic of David with his father&#8217;s paintings, painted when his father was approx 15 years old)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3871\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Davids-Fathers-Paintings.jpg\" alt=\"David's Fathers Paintings\" width=\"222\" height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: \u00a0What was the lightbulb moment that made you switch from politics to painting fulltime?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DH: \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t so much a &#8216;switch&#8217; as a &#8216;reprioritising&#8217;. I&#8217;ve been painting continuously since I was a teenager including on my holidays when I was in politics. That&#8217;s how I was able to have more than 60 exhibitions by the time I retired. I&#8217;d had enough of politics and the dumbing down that has been an increasing feature of political discussion. I&#8217;m now lucky enough to have had just over 4 joy filled years of uninterrupted full-time painting, undisturbed by the madness or mediocrity of politics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: \u00a0Having travelled and exhibited all around the world, why do you call Brisbane home?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DH: \u00a0No matter what great times I have painting in extraordinary parts of this world, I have never returned to Brisbane wishing that that I&#8217;d stayed longer in the city or cities I&#8217;ve been visiting. I always return with a sense of gratitude that I belong to such a special place with such good sub-tropical weather, magnificent parks with Poinciana\u2019s and Jacarandas, its unique traditional Queenslander architecture, \u00a0and incomparable coffee!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3875\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/3-1.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"1282\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/3-1.jpg 1282w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/3-1-300x68.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/3-1-768x173.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/3-1-1024x231.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1282px) 100vw, 1282px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhinchliffeartist.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Hinchliffe\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0current collection of artwork is\u00a0on exhibition at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/index.html\">Red Hill Gallery<\/a>, 61 Musgrave Road Red Hill, Brisbane until 21 August 2016. Make sure you visit the Gallery and its amazing team.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"Red Hill Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hill Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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=3868\" 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>ShareArtChat recently spent 5 minutes with Brisbane\u00a0artist\u00a0David Hinchliffe, to discuss his upcoming exhibition and recent trips overseas. 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