“I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.” ThinkingYearsWellsHas BeensDoneUsePastPracticeImpossiblePaintingComputerAidsDrawingScalesPlanningColourTransformedStampsComposingInstallationPostagePostage Stamps Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“There was something really wonderful about being able to feel confident about doing my first exhibition in China, that people would have no trouble recognising the images and understanding my work. I also have a lot of freedom in the way I use colour, and I think that kind of freedom in colour is also understandable in every culture.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsFirstsKindUseAbleCultureUnderstandingWonderfulTroubleChinaColourExhibitions Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.” UseColourNo ConfidenceEarly Work Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I had been doing wall drawings, but they were always black and white. Then in 1993 I painted all the walls of a room to make an installation and as soon as I saw the colour on the walls, it changed my whole life.” WholeBlackWhiteRoomsSawsChangedWallDrawingWhole LifeColourBlack And WhiteInstallation Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.” LongWholeUseAbleRoomsNumbersPaintingLong TimeDecidedWork OutStudiosColourIntensityVariationPalette Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the objects, I don't change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.” ShouldUseNamesSimpleObjectsDrawsRedDecidedOppositesObviousColourYellowPurpleDon't Change Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“The first exhibition that I used bright colours in painting the room was at a gallery in Paris, and there were seven rooms in the gallery. It was very nice gallery, not very big rooms, around the courtyard, it was a very French space. So I painted each room in different colour. When people came to the exhibition, I saw they came with a smile. Everybody smiles - this is something I never saw in my work before.” PeopleFirstsDifferentBigsUsedSpaceRoomsSawsNicePaintingSevenParisColourGalleryVery NiceExhibitionsDifferent Colours Author:Michael Craig-Martin
