00:00 So I use fluid acrylic paints that I make really runny and reactive, and the whole process
00:09 is about directed chaos, I'd say.
00:12 It's about just pouring the paint, seeing what happens, going with the flow, and just
00:16 watching the process unfold.
00:19 And the way I see it is it becomes a collaboration between me and the viewer.
00:24 So I have so many people coming up to the store and pointing out the different things
00:27 that they see in the paintings.
00:29 And usually it's things that I've never seen before myself, so it's a really nice
00:33 kind of collaboration between the two.
00:35 Well, this is my son's stall.
00:38 Chris has Asperger's syndrome, and he draws hyperrealism art.
00:43 It helps him to deal with his condition.
00:47 It gives him something to express himself through.
00:49 Chris will hyperfocus.
00:50 It has to be perfect to him.
00:53 He says it's either right or it's wrong.
00:55 So some of these can take up to 100 hours.
00:58 That's the time he needs to draw all the detail.
01:02 Yeah, we previously we've owned our own art gallery for a number of years and retired
01:08 two years ago.
01:10 And my wife is the creative, not I, and she was looking for something that would occupy
01:15 her time.
01:16 She's a very clever artist and painter, and she's tried ceramics for the first time.
01:22 And thinking about Welsh heritage, really, that she decided on the Welsh ladies.
01:28 Found them, I won't say easy, because every one of them takes about six hours to make.
01:34 By the time there's a couple of firings on them.
01:37 But she decided that this would be the path that she wanted to follow.
01:40 Well, I've been interested in pottery for a very long time, but I had to make a living.
01:47 And then recently I retired back to Wales from Hong Kong and started making pottery.
01:58 And my wife said, well, if you're going to make a lot of it, we'll have to sell it.
02:01 And so we created Dragon Wife.
02:04 And I work in a studio in Cardiff, a place called Sustainable Studios.
02:12 And this is the product.
02:15 I say so.
02:16 I have an online shop and an online gallery, but it really is just like meeting people
02:20 face to face, seeing what they gravitate towards.
02:23 Because a lot of the time, the paintings I really appreciate, they find different ones
02:28 that maybe I didn't appreciate as much.
02:31 And so it's just that interaction.
02:32 You just can't get that online these days.
02:34 It's nice.
02:35 Yeah, it's great to show people what Christopher can do and raise awareness about autism as
02:40 well.
02:41 Just because somebody has a condition, it doesn't mean to say they can't achieve.
02:46 It's just finding something they love and practice.
02:49 Yeah, that's what makes Cardiff market or the Christmas market unique, because every
02:55 stall holder is totally different.
02:58 You won't find two stalls selling the same things.
03:00 He just popped out the way you are.
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