Daniel Sparks AKA Müdwig. Consider us astounding when we discovered we had such talents working in our very team! Like many relationships within Verdant we met Dan on the football pitch and after asking him to help out at the brewery a few days a week we discovered his artistic talents. It only felt natural to ask Dan to contribute to our Cornish Creatives series.

Dan, is an English visual artist that works with several art forms including sculptures, painting and illustration. Daniel Sparkes has exhibited his work all over the United Kingdom, but also internationally in solo exhibitions in Calm and Punk Gallery in Tokyo, Sons and Studio in Copenhagen and Royalcheese Gallery in Paris.

As per normal we asked Dan the Cornish Creatives set of questions and this is his response!

Q1: Explain what you do in one short sentence.
I make oil paintings, drawings and murals pieces that are comically abstracted totems to a fusing of brutalism and nature.

It's got palm trees and bamboo so it feels pretty tropical . The roads here are a lot smoother than Gloucestershire, that's important. As a misanthrope with a dull obsession with parking spaces , I struggle  with the summer human influx. 

 There's a lot of positive immigration here as the distance filters folk out so it also feels a bit like Jabba the Hutt's posse are populating it in a semi wild west way...but that's more in my head.

 

Obviously it's a county with  a lot of industrial-ruin-romance and natural beauty lying about so as someone with a penchant for that it's a great place to explore .  

It is a place of contradictions ,  I love that you can sense the history everywhere , places like  Penwith feel like they haven't  changed for 10,000 years.

I'm even growing to love the constant shriek of seagulls now, in a sort of Hitchcock-ian 'the Raptors will kill us' sort of way.

Q10:  What’s your best piece of work and how did it come about?

I don't think I've created my best piece of work yet , thus I keep moving forward and pumping out the improved visions. So by that definition my latest paintings are currently my best and more accomplished , in my mind. But to pin it down more, Camel Moth E71 & Bovine Prod are two of my strongest from recent months.

Müdwig Has A Beef System IPA 

Released Wednesday 21st July 2021

6 Cans / Pieces of Artwork available to collect.

Intense zesty citrus with a focus on limes and grapefruit lead the way with an undercurrent of sweaty gorse flowers for added complexity. Wheat heavy, easy drinking and perfect on a hot day.

https://danielsparkes.com/

https://www.instagram.com/mudwig

Thanks for reading, Team Verdant