Artist Questionnaire

Name Vaughan Warren (RAS)

Briefly explain your art practice, and how you arrived at it.

1.Painting - I drew what I said was a sailing ship at the age of 6!

What is the role of the artist in today's society?

2.To question and engage on subjects outside comfort zones.

To try and explain the unexplainable?

Materials, product, process ... which comes first for you?

3.Materials - usually the paint itself but of late cardboard – a waste

product of an online consumerism – then painted on...

Do you work from a studio/workshop and if so, what is it like?

4.I work from home in a normal room – I see the traditional studio as a
prison which demands one creates – of late I have been creating in a
retail space – to engage the public...

How do you feel your education has impacted on your work?

5.I have found my own voice by rejecting what I was taught – but I
needed education to be able to reject that which wasn't mine?

Who or what has been your most significant influence?

6.Sir Peter Lely who survived the English Civil War as a court painter.
Cardboard and Slate – The clouds are stones and the stones are clouds!

What presents the greatest obstacle(s) to your productivity as an artist?

7.Success! Being trapped into a style from which the critics will not let you
escape – always try to escape yourself!

Will you share with us the biggest mistake you made in your art life?

8.I have no regrets – living with regret is regression!

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 Describe an average day in your art life.

9.There is nothing average about a day in my life – surprise and dealing

with it is part of the survival process – and should be reflected in ones
work – somehow?

How do you measure success?

10.y creating something that makes me think how did that happen?

What are your thoughts on competitions and prizes like the Jerwood and the
Turner?

11.Competition is good! I won every prize at the Royal Academy and

money always comes in handy but success does not define me.

How do you feel about the commercial aspect of art, and do you ever make
compromises in order to sell work?

12.I concluded a long time ago that no one would want my work – it
appears that something in it speaks to them – perhaps even broaches that
which cannot be spoken – hence no compromises.

What, if any, is your relationship with the people that buy your work?

13.They talk, I listen but do we agree?

Do you have any thoughts about . . .

a) mass produced 'art' sold in shops like The Range?
b) artworks like Salvator Mundi that sell for many millions? It does not
concern me other than the low expectation of people who profess to love art.

14.

What is the single most important piece of advice you would give to an
emerging artist?

15. Believe in yourself because how can you expect others to if you
don't! You may be delusional but it is the 'delusions' that withstand the assaults
of reason. (R.Storr)

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