Today we’d like to introduce you to Keith Lord,
Keith, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far.
My story. I’m a Chef, a super creative, out of the box, know no boundaries Chef. It comes naturally to me and I’m beyond thankful for the gift. As with most creatives, one avenue for output is never enough.
I began doing multimedia art in a journal entry to send ideas to an artist for tattoo art I commissioned her to do for me. I liked it as an “art piece” so I continued to add to that journal, realizing it had this cool dark eyes, rad hair, Edie Sedgwick, harijiku kind of style to it.
I did drafts for my father and grandfathers printing company as a kid. This turned into making flyers for rock bands as a teen, which led to making their t shirts. This was my proper job through school. I think all this ruled out, layout training is what has led to all the art I do to be rather linear.
My whole life is about color and feel. While art may require thought for me, where cooking does not, they both bring me the same sense of feel for color and texture.
Can you give our readers some background on your art?
I do multimedia pieces, most in an art journal. I have done some table tops for restaurants, and have put quite a few pieces onto canvases, but most of my pieces reside in those journals.
The subject matter is always girls, or their boots. The reason for this is always color and it sets the color palette for the rest of the piece. It’s fair to say that most all the pieces have dark eyes and messy hair in them. The hair especially tends to create lines that I expand upon in the piece.
I have a real passion for Japanese street culture (and food, obvi), speak a little and can write some really horrible kanji. I’ve been known to write kanji on pieces with messages no one may ever get, but me. But somehow the package of the sort of messy hair, bad kanji and color work make all the pieces something feel like I made them. .
What would you recommend to an artist new to the city, or to art, in terms of meeting and connecting with other artists and creatives?
I have no idea. I can hook you all up with some pretty artsy, creative, slightly insane, talented Chefs though. Oh wait, same thing.
What’s the best way for someone to check out your work and provide support?
Currently, I have a dozen pieces including two that are large format hanging at The Whett Noodle ramen bar in Oceanside. There is a tabletop of mine in the adjoining Wrench and Rodent sushi bar, its table 14.
Contact Info:
- Phone: 7605839237
- Email: randomsplatterings@gmail.com
- Instagram: random_splatterings
- Other: http://randomsplatterings.bigcartel.com/
Image Credit:
All images are mine.
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