KIMBAL BUMSTEAD
Tumbling Out From the Back Door into Now (Imagined Landscapes Series)
Oil and Varnish on Plywood
100 x 100 cm
Like many artists, Kimbal Bumstead was inspired during the pandemic to let it all out on the canvas. His Imagined Landscapes and Dreamscapes series were created during this time and encapsulate the need to escape, to separate himself from reality and capture the essence of his strange dreams at that time.
South-East London.
How did the quarantine impact your creative process?
It’s made me think a lot about scale. I’ve been making smaller works, and thinking about ‘zooming-in’, to soundscapes and textures.
Name an artist you’d invite to dinner.
Pipilotti Rist.
Creativity is …
When you get lost in what you are doing and forgot where you started.
Most inspiring country or city you’ve visited.
Jerusalem.
An inspiring or visually striking film.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.
I Can´t See All the Way Through But There Is Something Else There (Dreamscapes Series)
Oil, Acrylic, and Varnish on Plywood
70 x 50 cm
Favourite art gallery you’ve visited.
Basement arts project, Leeds.
Name an another creative medium you’d like to try?
Sound – particularly electronic music production but also sound installation. Thinking along the lines of expanded painting, collage with sound, images and performance…
3 words to describe your art.
Pensive, Vibrant, Absorbing.
What music or podcast do you listen to when creating?
I like to listen to DJ sets that have a storytelling element, music that takes you on a journey. Acid Pauli is a favourite, Chöko Aba another, also some great sets on soundcloud on the Kybele label and Seaside Trip.
How has your art evolved over the past three years?
These have been my full-on colour years. I’ve embraced unusual shapes, and gone both super large and really small.
“These have been my full-on colour years. I’ve embraced unusual shapes, and gone both super large and really small.´´
Push to Enter (Imagined Landscapes Series)
Varnish and Oil on Plywood
100 x 100 cm
What occupation would you have if you weren’t an artist?
Something that got me outdoors, a tree surgeon perhaps or a botanist.
Finish the sentence, ‘I’m inspired by …’
Visual traces of the past; layers of rock, scratches on a wall, archaeological remains of cities, ghost signs, misplaced manhole covers and the residue of melted ice cream on the pavement.
Your favourite quote.
“Shut up and love” – told by an old man I met once whilst hitch hiking.
An artist on instagram that we need to follow
3 favourite colours to use at the moment.
Indigo, scheveningsblauw, and luminous pink.
