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Flower 1: Watercolour on paper
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Biography - Stephen Mosley
I was born on June 16th 1968 in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England. My influences when growing up were primarily the technological leaps of the day, Thrust 2 getting the land speed record, Concorde starting its scheduled flights and the Space Shuttle launches. Although I was exposed to art (my parents have been known to knock out the odd piece of work) in my formative years the emphasis was very much on engineering.
Throughout adolescence my love of Art Deco grew and, stylistically, this soon became my major influence. As finding a way to earn a living, preferably doing something I enjoy, was a priority I did not develop my style for a while but kept drawing to try and improve my technique.
Finally when starting to play with ideas for a picture of Thrust SSC (current land speed record holder) I introduced geometric shapes to imply movement, either through illustrating the consequences of the speed or trying to physically draw the eye across the picture. This was the start of developing a style of my own. The results that I am happiest with are the ones where the design is almost abstract. In fact its almost an ideal for me to produce a picture where half the people who look at it can see what it is and half can't! My pictures reminded me of various works from the between wars period. Looking into the matter I realised that through the same reasons (the machine aesthetic and the depiction of movement) I had ended up creating, what I think are, Futurist style pictures.
I wanted to find out more about this group and the more I found out, the more I liked them. If nothing else, the idea appealed of turning up to an artistic debate ready armed with fruit and veg' to throw if you disagreed with the speakers. The ostensibly good-natured revolutionaries had one major draw back for me, which was that they embraced mechanised war as they thought it the ultimate tool for Futurism. Whereas I agree with this as a statement I do not think that because of this war is desirable.
I am now in the position of continuing my career in aerospace engineering design whilst trying to establish myself as an artist. I am trying to spread the subject matter that I tackle, my "enthusiast" side selecting subjects from the 1920's and 30's, my "Futurist" side picking modern subject matter. I would like to pursue my art more and to this end any commissions and patronage will be considered!
--S. Mosley 22/11/01
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