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Manchester Local Artists (2)
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Brian (Ace) Riley Brian (Ace) Riley was born in Manchester on 25 March 1950 in what he described as "..a slum area called Longsight" and left school to go into the engineering industry. However, in the mid-1980s he had begun to suffer from arthritis - so he started painting as a therapy to help with the problems that he had in his hands. At first he began working on landscapes and later tried portraiture. But neither subject quite helped get his message across as he wished, so he started working in the abstract. He found that this type of work suited his every mood and through it he was able to express his innermost feelings. He attended art classes at night school for a while, but he disliked the kind of subjects which were presented (eg. still life, bottles, etc) and neither did he much like the unsympathetic tutor who was only interested in figurative art. As Ace says "... he didn't like abstract art or understand it. I tried on several occasions to try and explain it to him, but I'm afraid his mind was closed to this type of work". He defines abstract art as "non-objective and unknowable". This, he maintains, is why we are tempted to look for objects in paintings where there often aren't any. For this reason, he believes that it is more of a challenge to create an abstract painting that has meaning. "If art is not about visual pleasure", says Ace, "then it is about nothing. There may well be a message too, but it is the image that you live with, long after any other meaning has been understood and perhaps forgotten". All of Ace's paintings are for sale. If you are interested, contact him by any other following means:
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This page last updated 16 Sept 02.