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About Stanley
The man from the South Pacific. I was born in New Zealand in 1962. I studied graphic design in Auckland and then moved to France in 1986. After living in Lyon for 18 months, I moved to London and have been there ever since. During this time, I worked as a graphic designer for major feminine brands such as Clarins, Bourjois and Christian Dior. I now divide my time between London and Krakow. Krakow is a people-sized city. And the architecture is so full of soul-lifting aesthetic pleasures. Graphic art is a big thing with me; the flattening of form and simplification of colour is, I believe, more of an honest, elegant and ‘digestible’ art form that the overwrought workings in paint. Matisse summed up my feeling towards graphics when he spoke about Japanese and Islamic art: “I rely on Oriental art to help me express abstract ideas through the simplification of form and colour.”
For the moment, I have left behind the deadening corporatism that bedevils most contemporary design creativity. While maintaining my design practise, (see www.stanleydesign.co.uk) I am also working on forging my own interpretation of beauty and aesthetic pleasure, through graphic art. To date, I have had three exhibitions in Krakow. As one who is essentially a graphiste in my DNA, and as one who had derived much pleasure from books and prints, that is now where I am focused. To date, I have produced two 30-page catalogues of my work and a limited range of selected prints. Please see my Shop page. Otherwise, please roam around the galleries of my work that I have put up. And, if you have the time, please read my essays on beauty, aesthetics and exhibitions. (See Blog page). I hope you like what you see. A splendid time is guaranteed for all!
“What I want is an art of balance, of purity, an art that won’t disturb or trouble people. I want anyone tired, worn down, driven to the limits of endurance, to find calm and repose in my painting.”
Henri Matisse
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“The purpose of art is to wash the dust of daily life from our souls.”