赛麟推介 | 亨利 · 劳伦斯的艺术创作

亨利 · 罗伦斯的个展 “平仄” 正在赛麟（合肥）空间展出。

在上海的工作室里，劳伦斯继续他的绘画创作。

亨利·劳伦斯是英国画家、陶艺家和雕塑家。自2018年移居上海以来，他一直专注于绘画和陶瓷创作。他的作品关注感伤和色彩驱动的主题。劳伦斯于2008年毕业于布莱顿大学，获得室内建筑学学士学位。后来在2017年，他在坎伯威尔艺术学院完成了他的MA设计师制造，专注于青铜铸造。

对他来说，抽象是非常个人的，这是一种感觉，他可以从中获得内在的灵感，然后必须将其转化为物理的东西。灵感的物理性被构造成作品。每个笔触都必须从内部被发现，并以经验、学到的技能和精确度在表面上表现出来。目前，绘画是他创造力的主要来源，玩弄颜色、尝试创作技巧、测试形状比例和颜色组合。 

获得学士学位后，他搬到了荷兰的埃因霍温，为西班牙设计师Nacho Carbonell工作。这种经历非常具有塑造性，每天动手工作，使用金属、木材，焊接、铸造石膏和混凝土，用硅胶覆盖家具并测试很多很多的颜色，这些知识一直伴随着劳伦斯的工作过程。 

当他学习室内建筑时，他喜欢初始阶段的创作过程，快速素描和小型抽象模型制作，这只是一个想法的本质和开始。这是最有趣的部分。他发现建筑过程的后期阶段过于僵化，很难坚持下去，这也是他感兴趣的第一个火花。

结构过程绝对影响了劳伦斯的绘画过程，当他开始绘画时，他需要一个特定的框架，这些初始标记至关重要。他还认为他的作品不是完全抽象的，每个标记或笔画都是经过深思熟虑的放置，没有任何东西被抛出，有一些结构使他更有创造力，这有助于他创造一个更清晰的身份。他抽象实践中的每个笔画都是经过深思熟虑的放置，而不是随机放置。 

劳伦斯相信纸质作品是他未来实践的基础，纸质作品没有特别命名，它们大致被按照思想的集合来分组，这应该具有越来越大的意义。这些集合为新的帆布画提供了信息，它们是展开旅程的延伸。

Henry Lawrence is a British Painter, ceramicist and sculptor. Since moving to Shanghai in 2018, He has been focusing on painting and ceramic works. His work focuses on sentimental and colour driven themes. He graduated from the University of Brighton in 2008 with a BA in Interior Architecture; later in 2017 he completed his MA Designer Maker at the Camberwell College of Art, focusing on Bronze casting.

Abstraction for him is very personal, it’s a feeling from which you get internal inspiration from, which then has to be translated into something physical. Its physicality is constructed into pieces of work. Each brush stroke has to be discovered from within and it manifests itself on to the surface with experience, learned skill and precision. Currently Painting is his main source of his creativity, playing with colours, testing mark making techniques, proportions of shapes and testing colour combinations.

After his BA he moved to Eindhoven, Holland to work for Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell. This experience was very formative, hands-on work everyday, working with metal, wood, welding, casting plaster and Concrete, covering furniture in silicone and testing lots and lots of colours, this knowledge has always stayed with him.

When he was studying Interior architecture he loved the creative process of the initial stages the fast sketching and small abstract model making that are just the essence, the beginning of an idea. This is the fun and most interesting part. The later stages of the architecture process he found are too rigid it’s hard to hold on to and see the first spark that interested him.

The structural process definitely informs my painting process, he needs a certain framework when he starts his paintings, these initial marks are crucial. He also believes his work aren’t totally abstract, each mark or stroke is thoughtfully placed, nothing is thrown, having some structure makes him more creative, this helps him to create a clearer identity about himself and his practice. Each stroke is thoughtfully placed not randomly put. 

The paper works he believe are the foundation of his practice going forward, the paper works aren’t specifically titled they are roughly grouped as an collection of ideas, which should have a growing meaning. These groups inform the new canvas paintings, they are an extension of an unfolding journey.

Henry来自英国Sherborne, Dorset，硕士毕业于伦敦艺术大学Camberwell艺术学院Design erMaker专业，大学曾就读于布莱顿大学室内建筑专业。

2008-2010年，他曾为荷兰著名设计师Nacho Carbonell工作三年，一同创作了多件巨作。

2012-2015年Henry加入Arch Bronze Foundry, 曾经为英国著名女雕塑家Rebecca Warren（1993毕业于切尔西艺术学院）铸造多件雕塑作品

2017年 Henry 伴随他英国的同班中国同学，他现在的爱人Aijuan 来到中国上海，现如今在中国结婚生子，已近4年时间没有回去英国。

2018年开始Henry开始创作一些纸面作品，以水彩或丙烯为主要媒介。