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C Corfield Interview by Alessandra Asciortino extracted from 'Jazz Colours' magazine published in November 2007. You attended the Fine Art University: did you study practice there? Yes I studied many aspects of art and this included practical exploration in of different mediums and colour and concepts. It was during my degree that I became interested in particular artists such as Miro and Kandinsky.
I wanted to take a degree in Arts Management to give me the business skills required to work within the arts sector as well as working as an artist. It has certainly been useful in managing my own work particularly the marketing, financial and legal aspects of working as a self promoting artist.
I like to experiment with different styles and consider
myself to be influenced by all of these artists. The styles I adopt to express
musical influence work well for me particularly in my jazz work. I am always
working on my practise and trying to improve and change what I do. I hope this
can be seen in the range of work I have produced over the last few years. I’m
not sure if I will ever develop one particular style and stick to it. I believe
my life as an artist is a journey and I’m never sure where it will take me. Some things run through all people wherever they are in the world, the love of music is one such thing. Art is another, where ever I went I found people enjoying music. Music crosses cultural and geographical boundaries and I saw this time and time again during my travels, whether at a full moon party in Thailand or a Karaoke Bang in Korea or the Jazz Club I found in Hanoi, I had been trapped in Hanoi for a few days awaiting process of my Visa for China and one evening by chance I found this jazz club and enjoyed a great evening listening to local Jazz musicians including owner of the club playing some fantastic music. ) I met many fantastic people from different countries, often we did not share the same language but we interacted and communicated as people sharing moments. I learned many things about the strength to be found in our similarities as well as the strength to be gained from our differences and that both are equally important. I found Cambodia particularly moving because the resilience of the people following the fairly recent atrocities and the warmth of people’s hearts despite all this. I found Cambodia to be a spiritual place exuding tremendous warmth, which gave me, renewed faith in humanity. I feel I have borrowed some of that strength and resilience and applied it to my life as an artist. This is one reason why I like to paint bright colourful paintings that create positive feelings for the viewer and hopefully make them happy. I also met Lebanese artist Wajhie Nahle whilst in China and spent the day sharing ideas about art and techniques. He made me realised that I would need to practise and practise and focus on one medium and try to master it.
At school I studied dance and became
interested in Jazz from a performance art perspective because certain types of
jazz such as hard-bop, Latin and fusion et al allow you to be really
expressive and creative in dance. Aside from this I suppose I always thought
Jazz was one of those inaccessible genres of music reserved for wealthy
listeners and talented musicians. This misconception changed in 2001 when I went
to over to Holland with some friends to the North Sea Jazz festival. I saw many
amazing performances covering a wide range of jazz based music over those few
days including Shakti, Bugge Wesseltoft, McCoy
Tyner. I think this really opened my eyes to
the vibrancy and colorfulness’ of Jazz and also opened doors in terms of my
awareness of the variety and of jazz music available to me. I think it is
difficult to know what is out there unless you are actually introduced to music
by somebody or something, which in my case was the North Sea Jazz Festival. Most definitely, I focus a great deal on the party atmosphere created by music and try to bring the human energy of a party and the tempo and feel of the music into most of my paintings. Duet for example is more reflective of the clarity and solitude of a violin duet where as Lady Jazz has a more fun, colourful feel representing the music I imagined when painting. Similarly with ‘Indie Rock’ I tried to emulate the power and rock attitude of music associated with the indie rock movement. Feel fee to email me and i will send you the original e-zine magazine. August 2007 A company in Netherlands
are using 'City traffic' as a logo for a 2007 congress event.
For more information on the market visit -
http://www.mosaic-arts-market.org/
Pictures Below - Mosaic Arts Market September 2007
June 2007
Patchings art event was equally as successful bringing in lots of follow up sales and interest in my artwork. The thousands of visitors to the event made it a record. Next years date is Thursday 5th and Sunday8th June. You can see the exhibitors on the main website, http://www.patchingsartcentre.co.uk/onlinegallery/exhibition2007/index.php
A radio station in Mexico are using 'Red Hot Sax' painting for their new jazz radio station. The painting will be the logo on their website for the radio station Jazz Motif. I will post details of it once they have finalised their new website. I have just been
accepted into the Patchings Competition/Exhibition. Jazz Jam and Chello Heaven
were accepted by a panelled jury and will feature in the National Art Festival
in Nottingham June 5th to 5th July. There will be over 15,000 visitors to this
exhibition so I am really happy to have been one of the successful entries.
According to the organisers, the exhibition promises to be an outstanding one
and will be shown at Patchings Art Centre, Oxton Road, Calverton,
Nottinghamshire. The opening of the exhibition runs concurrently with the 14th Patchings Art, Craft and Design Festival. It's one of the UK's most celebrated
art and craft festivals. www.patchingsartcentre.co.uk artWEEK is now a local event with a national reputation – most of the exhibitors are from this area but visitors come from all over the country to look and to buy. It is astounding how much artistic talent there is locally – it is this that makes the event such a success . . . and brings so many visitors to Holmfirth every year.
See website for more details April 2007 I just got a stand on the Harrogate Art Fair on the bank holiday weekend. (Thank-you to the person who dropped out and to the artist Phil Wilson who put me in touch with the event co-ordinator) I am REALLY looking forward the event. It's at Valley Gardens if you want to come along. I've also just got an exhibition at the Leeds Infirmary Hospital in October. Over 100ft of space!!! I also bagged myself some wall space for a month at the Carriageworks Theatre in October! The spaces are for a month so hopefully will drum up some interest. I really need to work faster! Pictures Below - Addingham Exhibition March 2007
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