{"id":457,"date":"2011-10-17T08:51:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T22:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=457"},"modified":"2011-10-17T08:51:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T22:51:32","slug":"hot-on-the-walls-october-2011-dan-mason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Hot On The Walls &#8211; October 2011 &#8211; Dan Mason"},"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=457\" 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><strong>Whats Hot on the Walls this month?\u00a0\u00a0 Dan Mason!<\/strong><br \/>\nContemporary artist Dan Mason\u2019s work is electric and diverse let\u2019s have a quick look at the man behind his art.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_458\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?attachment_id=458\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-458\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-458\" class=\"size-full wp-image-458\" title=\"&quot;Hot Jazz&quot;  &quot;Happy Days&quot;  &quot;Dancing with Django&quot; DAN MASON\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/HotOnWallsOct.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Hot Jazz&quot;  &quot;Happy Days&quot;  &quot;Dancing with Django&quot; DAN MASON\" width=\"800\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/HotOnWallsOct.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/HotOnWallsOct-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Hot Jazz&quot; &quot;Happy Days&quot; &quot;Dancing with Django&quot; DAN MASON<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>AC: What inspires you to create<\/strong>?<strong><br \/>\nDM: <\/strong><em>An insatiable need to bring something to life, that is worthy of the gift of consciousness. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: In three words describe your art<br \/>\nDM: <\/strong><em>Energy on canvas<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: How do you spend your leisure time?<br \/>\nDM: <\/strong><em>Building Lego with my five year old boy, Surfing, walking\/running through Burleigh Heads national park,<\/em><em> playing guitar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: Who is your role model or person you most admire?<br \/>\nDM: <\/strong><em>Educators and Healthcare workers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: Share something with us about yourself that we don\u2019t know<br \/>\nDM: <\/strong><em>I can juggle a football on my feet for hundreds of reps without it touching the ground \ud83d\ude0e <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: What music do you listen to while you create?<br \/>\nDM: <\/strong><em>Currently have these on high rotation; Cold Chisel -&#8216;Swingshift&#8217; 1981. Foofighters &#8211; &#8216;Wasting Light&#8217; 2011. The Rolling Stones &#8211; &#8216;Exile On Main Street&#8217; 1972.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: What was the last book you enjoyed?<br \/>\nDM:<\/strong> &#8216;<em>I Am Ozzy&#8217; by Ozzy Osbourne<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: What does your art mean to you?<br \/>\nDM: <\/strong><em>Expressing oneself is imperative for human growth &#8211; my art is my &#8216;soul food&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I work on several canvases over a period of time &#8211; making a mark, moving to the next, revisiting and responding to their individual energies &#8211; essentially allowing them to grow organically, they let me know when they&#8217;re resolved with a vibration that I can only compare to looking into the eyes of a loved one.<\/p>\n<p>I work with oils, acrylics, enamels, spray paint and pastels. Through countless hours of process experimentation and technique development, I have learned a great deal about mixed media interactions, so that I know how to break conventional rules properly.<br \/>\nAbstract expressionism is a term that often attaches itself to my work, however I like to think that it&#8217;s simply energy on canvas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dan Mason 2011<\/em><\/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=457\" 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>ShareWhats Hot on the Walls this month?\u00a0\u00a0 Dan Mason! 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