ICON: The life and love of an accidental artist

Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell is an accidental Artist.  A warrior who trained Jiu-Jitsu for the majority of his life; teaching and doing seminars around the world.  The transition from Warrior to Artist began while traveling in Nepal, where he acquired a near-fatal respiratory disease that changed his life.

No longer able to train martial arts, Corbell found strength in painting on vintage doors salvaged from local demolitions around his childhood home.  The recovery experience accidentally launched his new life as an Artist.  Or you could say that the Artist always inside him continued, just expressing itself in a different form.  In moving from punches to paint-brushes, Corbell once said about this experience, "I learned that we often only express fragments of our totality, and that it is through the courage of imagination that we become free to truly express."

Corbell's latest creation, ICON, is a mixed-media series that celebrates the life and style of Sharon Tate in honor of the 40th anniversary of her passing.  With the blessing of the Tate family, ICON showcases Sharon’s never before revealed wardrobe by designers such as Christian Dior, Thea Porter, Ossie Clark and Yves Saint Laurent.  In his own words, "The ICON exhibition has been created to help facilitate understanding of the healing power of art to transform and create culture."

You can see more about Corbell at http://www.jeremycorbell.com
And check out his wicked NINJA skills at http://www.quantumjujitsu.com


Upcoming creations from the accidental artist include:

-  The launch of the ICON APPAREL brand at Fred Segal in Santa Monica http://www.ICON-Apparel.com

-  A collaboration with the World Fashion Awards in support of humanitarian aid.

-  The ICON tour, where the 350 piece exhibition will be traveling the globe.

-  A feature length documentary on Corbell and his creative process.

-  Corbell's small and sometimes spontaneous happenings in the Los Angeles area... you never know when or where he will strike.  Become a fan of his art on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=75761097646


ABOUT THE ARTIST
Los Angeles based mixed-media artist JEREMY KENYON LOCKYER CORBELL tends to exhibit at avante-garde locations and events including Los Angeles’s Factory Girl pre-premier, a comparative exhibition featuring never-before seen Warhols.  Corbell’s past series, Women In Sunglasses, was a highly publicized and followed exhibition.  ICON is his latest creation.


ARTIST STATEMENT
"Art can change the world, and everybody can live artfully."  - Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell

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