The Gallery Visit

David Poulson is showing his artwork at the Noosa Regional Gallery and we had the opportunity to visit the gallery in a private tour. What struck me the most was the inner journey that happens where you are taken into an artists world, feelings and thoughts. Through their eyes and in their mind they choose colour depths, line style, stoke length, shade, tint, shape and so many more artistic terms to create their vision. What came to me from David's art was a rather intense journey of growth and change throughout his life. His earlier works while at art and design school were structured with the perfection of human and design form. His sketches were able to portray the small rolls of fat on a woman's belly to the soft form or her breasts with the true nature of those lines,they rarely feel sensual in any way. Then comes the black kangaroo prints which hold and intensity and left me asking a great deal of questions. Why does the kangaroo have a giant penis with a house burning on it? They are dark in colour and the kangaroo has a man's body, but also carries a rifle. Why? His work in this phase uses negative and positive light with shades of black and tints of white to produce intensity. Moving through the pieces there are works that feel "disturbed". You know that this was the intention because of the level of skills you have witnessed in his earlier works. Then I began to think that perhaps it was related to how David was feeling at the time.