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| Year of creation | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 23 W × 50 H × 19 D cm |
| Type of art | sculpture |
| Style | abstract |
| Genre | allegorical |
| Materials | Mixed method |
Description of the Artwork “Good-morning”
This piece is an abstract, free standing sculpture and is titled ‘Good-morning’. The piece evokes, at least for me, the many possibilities of the dawning of a new day. It is constructed from a variety of found objects. The sinuous head of the work is formed from the joining of the two curved ends of a heater which was originally used as a heat source for the incubation of hens eggs. Eggs are of course are also typically eaten at breakfast.i I have added four blue painted spheres (painted with duck-egg blue paint !) which represent a connection to the morning sunrise and are a nod to the original use of the metal elements in the sculpture. The placing of the four spheres also mimics the rising of the sun in the morning sky. The piece is mounted on a tubular aluminium stand which is turn sits on a robust, heavily patinated, iron base.
Martin Looker, France
Martin Looker was born in Yorkshire, a northern region the United Kingdom, in 1956. He has spent the majority of his life as a malaria researcher in UK Universities. In 1992 he moved along with his wife to live and work in France as a gardener. Martin has made sculptures of one sort or another for the majority of his adult life. Latterly he has chosen to concentrate his artistic efforts on Sculpture, in particular abstract sculptures. These sculptures reflect the artists desire to remove all the unnecessary elements of a found item and to manifest its very essence in a transformed , abstracted way. Found objects are discovered in gardens and farm fields, scavenged from the local dump, buried in old stone barns or picked up along a forest path or riverbank. His work reflects a fascination with texture: a weathered lump of ancient oak, the patina of old bone or rusted metal, the delicate surface of a spelled eggshell. He has a preference to use natural materials and his penchant towards rust ;leads to the discovery of unappreciated materials in plain sight. Man-made materials, in particularly Formica are often used to provide an interesting counterpoise to the natural elements. Invariably a found item will spark a concept to be cultivated into the final form of a sculpture, often accompanied by a whimsical, sometimes eccentric title.