Andrew Collie
Christchurch
dmlove@xtra.co.nz
5 May 2005
Hi,
I'm an English artist living on the south coast of the UK.
I've just seen the art on your web site and I thought it was absolutely fantastic!
Best wishes,
Ian Pyper
pypersmail@tiscali.co.uk
26 November 2004
IAN PYPER
'Future Primitive' / 'Paleolithique Moderne'
New 'Indian Bird' Drawings
Ink and Caran D'Ache Crayons on Post Cards
TAG Art Gallery, Nashville, USA
www.tagartgallery.com (Featured
Artist', Nov 2004)
www.rawvision.com
('back copies' #25)
www.headfooters.com ('Artists'+'Shows')
www.joymoosgallery.com ('Ian Pyper')
www.outsiderart.info ('Ian Pyper')
dear primitive bird
group-
came across your info on the web today, Christmas Morning.
nice to see that others are thinking on the same line. I have been painting
and studying art for the past 12 years.
I dropped out of art school, I hated it. I don't understand galleries. the only
way i can state my position is "against."
I am in Chicago trying to rally fellow artists toward sincerity and away from
cynicism.
Dan Powell
daniel.f.powell@sbcglobal.net
26 December 2004
Dear friends,
there I was putting "noble savage" into Google to find a good definition
to
use in a lecture, and up comes Max's painting! It looks wonderful ...
I am so drawn to your
paintings! Have looked at them all on the website,
and find them glorious. Just about to read your essay critique of po-mo that
I found on Google as well. Its a nice convergence that my most favourite
20th century artist is Miro (I have two prints) and here you are with
birds, colour, lines as well!
Terry Cannon
University of Greenwich, London
t.g.cannon@greenwich.ac.uk
2 November 2004
Hey you
know Max, I went back to check out your work again and I think you have
put down
some very interesting marks. Those primitive forms you transmit are very
unique, familiar, yet I believe of an old kind. I strongly believe someone,
or some thing,
talks to you, however you want to look at it, it is talking story to you. Did
anyone ever
talk to you about Ka Ha Ki'i before, the ancient artifacts and Dreaming marks
of the Salt
Water Tribe?
My aboriginal
ancestors are not quite tarred with the same brush as the desert tribes.
We are The Salt Water Tribe which links us to many others including Maori. I
am on
Kauai the Island of my Ancestors. I was born Downunder 57 West Oz. I am Australian,
part Wardandi, part Pitinjarra aboriginal and part Dutch Hawaiian Manhume, Salt
Water
Tribe. My family were Trackers by land and Navigators by sea, they were swimmers
and
surfers. They painted and carved. I lived in Hawaii for sixteen years, I came
for a six week
vacation from Downunder after I did World Expo 88 in Brisbane.
Aboriginal
art is all about communicating the planet's soul and therefore trying to render
her true voice through the visual art lines that are medicine to her and us.
Aboriginal art is
a great tradition, we actually call art Dreaming for we don't have a word for
art or artist. As
an aboriginal dreamer of today, my work is quite different from that of my ancestors.
However elements of our oldest oceanic aboriginal art forms spontaneously appear
in
front of me which brings us together in the now. The past, present and future,
we are one
in the now.
The paintings
look really good Max. I see some of your good old ideas blended with some
new mellow thought, yes/no? I liked your choice of background colors, very today
@ the
moment, very native but sublime. I especially liked those colors for Emergence,
those golds
and yellow send really strong messages. It's pretty bloody good stuff. I can
see straight
through your work. I can actually see 3DNA and also old aboriginal stuff.
Tribal
Marking: TM is the DNA of most, if not all, aboriginal primitive tribal painting,
especially
Painting Ceremonial; PC are paintings done for, and while dancing is going down.
You know
dancing corroboree, kahiko, old style kahiki. The art that goes with this ceremony
is KA HA KI'I -
to Scratch or Draw in the elements, air, water, sand, using elements, sticks
'n stones, broken
bones, fire.
. .
Yes I am
actually talking about the healing side of art and ok we'll talk a little about
shamanism.
Most of what I have learnt regarding this matter is very different from what
I have read. Simply
because such medicine makers do not write about their craft, it is usually orally
passed down
or it's illustrated. However those inclined, or as I put it, those initiatives
draw it out of nature,
from thin air, from the mind and it's not calculated, it's spontaneous. When
I use the word
shaman, I use it in the same vain as I do for dreamer, artist, or more so the
aboriginal. Anyway
one doesn't choose this path, it chooses you, usually long before the dreamer
is born.
Painters
are supposed to be connected to the Earth and its spirits. Tribal art in my
opinion is
the purest form of visual telecommunication from the spirit world to the physical.
I believe TA
is primarily nature's signpost for wandering spirits to make communication with
man. The
secular modern art world, as I know it, is too critical and personal, art is
not fashion, it's religion
and is the foundation stone of all human culture. Max I see a deeper more involved
personality
in your marks. Primitive art, authentic art comes from a place so deep that
most intellectual
artists do not hold the power. So therefore the very nature of your marks indicates
to me, an
original (primitive) exposure.
Derek Glaskin
Kauai, Hawaii
derek.glaskin@thinkingman.com
April-May 2004 (edited)
Aloha primitive
bird group, Max & Claire. I really enjoyed checking out your artworks, UNREAL!
My name is Derek and I just wanted to share my primitive birds with you. I feel
the same way.
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You know WHOO these
little fellas are, we call them Pueo in Hawaii, they are my aumakua-spirit guides.
I've a little one who lives with me full time, that's her on the left, the other
ones are her mum and dad.
Again really enjoyed your work, am very greatfull to have seen them fine pictures.
Aloha Derek
Derek Glaskin
Kauai, Hawaii
derek.glaskin@thinkingman.com
10 April 2004