{"id":251,"date":"2018-06-06T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/comicart\/?p=251"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:10:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:10:05","slug":"graphic-art-v-comic-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/comicart\/2018\/06\/06\/graphic-art-v-comic-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The long and winding road to Comic Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today marks a conscious change of direction.<\/p>\n

I have put away the very few painted canvases I had left in the studio along with the paints.<\/p>\n

I moved in to the 3rd space Studio in July 2011 ironically just as I preparing to tour the Salt pamphlet of poems. I moved to Sherwood in July 2010 with my wife Emma.<\/p>\n

I have produced very few paintings whilst there in the past 7 years and it time to make unavoidable decisions as rationally as I can despite the impact of recent traumas.<\/p>\n

From 2011 until January 2014 my focus was on drawing for the NTU MA.<\/p>\n

This developed the Moogee cartoon persona into some quite serious cartooning and research.<\/p>\n

However from mid 2014 when my course closed and I decided to go on a NTU creative writing M.A., which now seems utterly ridiculous but at the time seemed to make sense, I have struggled to use the studio properly. Partly this my own fault and partly outside events impacting on me.<\/p>\n

So today I cleared away the paint and canvases and dedicated the space to ‘Comic Art’. I will use drawing and graphic means to visualise ideas.<\/p>\n

This goes alongside a return to writing represented by the recent ‘Lost Nottingham’ poems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today marks a conscious change of direction. I have put away the very few painted canvases I had left in the studio along with the paints. I moved in to the 3rd space Studio in July 2011 ironically just as I preparing to tour the Salt pamphlet of poems. 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