PICTURAL COLLOQUY Sketchbook Exhibition by Illustrator Tin Salamunic

Artist’s sketchbooks have always fascinated me, as they conceal the thinking process and the easily overlooked beauty of conceptual contemplation camouflaged by the final work of art. The inducement of these personal sketchbook journals and their intimate relationship with the craftsman has been one of the main constituent ingredients in my artistic education and developing passion for the arts.

This body of work is an invitation to carry a pictural colloquy with the viewer without my presence, to assign an equivocal story to the individual images and take a peregrination through time and allow the images to orchestrate the motive.

Each image is vying to announce it’s own narrative, while the amalgam portrays an unfinished story to be concluded by the observer. These snapshots are an archive of memories that have found eternal residence within the aging pages of my journals, while maintaining an everlasting recognition of honor to the cherished moments significant to my subsistence.

The ongoing motivation and ambition towards future objectives is maintained by the conservation of precious moments in life that are easily overshadowed by life’s consistent attempt at thickening the fog on our paths. My sketchbook is my light that cuts the grey veil when I am astray and a constant reminder that: