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artist: Amanda Oliphant artist: Allan Offord

This artist is brimming with energy, ideas and natural talent. You can see from his work the
vibrance and youthful passion that he imbues into each piece. And I suspect the more he

produces the more he wants to bring into this world.

His knowledge of art is also broad and the thirst for discovering the back stories to painters
reasoning for creating what they did is quite refreshing, especially in these times when Art

History seems to ‘struck’ off the Universities must do list.

For me the artists work is almost classical abstraction, his forms seem to almost dance across
the canvas with originality. Nature plays its part as a willing assistant in the compositions, as it

does in almost every painters psychic, and it’s no surprise that the subconscious creative part
of Alan’s mind is firing on all cylinders. I look forward to meeting him and the viewing the art in
the flesh – when I am allowed to travel abroad again that is.

Here is what Alan has to say about his art...
“I’ve always been driven to leave behind accurate representation as a rather puzzling and
pointless exercise. What challenges and excites me stems from letting a painting develop
somewhere in that strange hazy frontier between my objective control and the realms of

accident, mistake and luck which abstraction and experimentation encourage. “