What influences shaped the young aspiring painter
into a world-renowned talent - what so many interviewers like to refer to as a
"Renaissance" talent due to its complete disregard for the boundaries
of media? What influences shape the man today as the work treads ever
more spiritual and metaphysical paths, as the outsider journeys beyond
the limits and returns to report the glorious sights that might
await us there should we choose to follow the same paths this shaman has
carved out?
We've pulled together some of our favourite quotes on
recurring topics on the pages linked below. They give a snapshot at a
particular time of the thought processes behind the creativity but need
to be read in the knowledge that opinions change; what seems an important
influence in one context is simply an anecdote in another and that,
ultimately, these insights may enable a background picture to be drawn
which illuminates the books, screenplays and artwork...
Afterword, Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden, June 1989