Admiring the work of Marion Peck, figurehead of Pop Surrealism in the United States, is like taking a stroll in a dark and whimsical universe, a bizarre fairyland where forest animals, grotesque creatures and melancholy children coexist. Sometimes called with a tinge of irony Lowbrow Art, Pop Surrealism is a pictorial movement that emerged in the late 1970s in California, of which Marion Peck and her husband, American artist Mark Ryden, happen to be the main figures today.
You seem to like to paint night scenes, use lights that reminds us of dusk, or set your characters in cave? All this produces a special light to your paintings? How do you interpret the lighting you paint?I love the darkness as well as the light. Darkness is mystery, the yin of the Tao, the feminine, the depths of the ocean, of the night sky, of the subconscious. To move beyond normal, everyday, ego driven solar conciousness is a move towards darkness. I find the most magical times are dawn and dusk, when light and dark are changing places. There we can sense a place between worlds. That's the place I?m trying to paint.