We are belatedly (and happily) entering an era where the self-described self-taught artist is no longer treated with either condescension or dismissive arrogance by the critics. The English graphic designer Craww, for example, instructed his own muse personally and patiently with results that speak well for any and all plans in his future. His style is a cool and thematically rich one with the semiotic toys of melancholy abounding. This ethereal woman could have sprung from a Greek tragedy or from a gothic novel or from the very infrastructure of a half-recalled dream. The deliberate (and barely noticeable) disproportional elements reveal her as being more mystery than menace - and thus a more beguiling seductress to the viewer's eye.
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About the Artist
Location: Sheffield, England
Self-taught English fine artist and graphic designer, Craww, fills in his stream of consciousness doodling with a rich elegance in his painting. Utilizing traditional methods, or a combination of photoshop, pencil, and paint, you'll find his ambiguous work muses over pretty things in dark places, nasty things masquerading in beauty, and often crows, tattoos, melancholic girls, and skulls.
A habitual doodler, Craww represents his mental world of daydreams and outside influences of music, comics, gin, and wine in his sketches and fully realized dreamscapes with gripping depth.Find out more @ http://www.craww.com/
