Craig graduated from the Alberta Collage of Art and Design in Printmaking. Throughout his career he has explored mixing different forms of art including drawing, painting, sculpture and print media.
He works mostly with wood and paint he finds and repurposes. School desk tops, bits of furniture and theatre sets are all fair game. He lets the material of his pieces inspire the conceptual direction, taking into account the colour, shape or history of the object. Craig’s work often has elements of representational and abstract marks blending the tangible and intangible.
His new works explore how two simple images influence each other and create meaning cemented by a title. The paintings can start with the title or an image and flow from there based on Friesen’s understood connotations and denotations of the parts. This work is continuation of ideas from work done with Quality Painters, a collaboration between himself and David Nielsen.
He works mostly with wood and paint he finds and repurposes. School desk tops, bits of furniture and theatre sets are all fair game. He lets the material of his pieces inspire the conceptual direction, taking into account the colour, shape or history of the object. Craig’s work often has elements of representational and abstract marks blending the tangible and intangible.
His new works explore how two simple images influence each other and create meaning cemented by a title. The paintings can start with the title or an image and flow from there based on Friesen’s understood connotations and denotations of the parts. This work is continuation of ideas from work done with Quality Painters, a collaboration between himself and David Nielsen.
