Artist's Statement
I'm Damian "Dee" Manning, a self-taught emerging artist who tells stories through visual art. My work weaves together a timeline of my life, transforming personal experiences into vivid compositions. Inspired by Van Gogh's churches, I've captured Clifden's sacred architecture in my own style using pastels on coloured paper. The overwhelmingly positive reactions to my work fuel my creative passion.
Over the years, I've grown into a fearless artist who thrives creating in public spaces. The ambient sounds and atmosphere become woven into each piece's tapestry of colour and form. Daily journaling and sketching anchor my practice, while oil and chalk pastels on coloured paper remain my preferred medium, though I'm enthusiastically exploring oil paints.
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Time as Medium
My art is both evocative and biographical, created with vivid colours and threading lines that recreate our fleeting world. During the creative process, time warps—simultaneously flying by and standing still. This temporal distortion reflects my urgent desire to make productive use of our limited time on earth.
The act of mark-making feels magical—as if creativity flows through me like music through an instrument. Refining pieces to their natural completion empowers me to become the fullest artist possible during my remaining lifetime. Coming from a lineage of storytellers, visual art has become my language, speaking to something primal within us that existed long before organised language.
