Biography
I have always been interested in drawing and painting the human form, especially the face.
Since I was Sixteen I have been painting in oils. I was inspired by the commercial American artist Bill Pruitt when I was young and then started by just doing commercial celebrity portraits then slowly moving into more expressionistic detailed works in my college and university education.
In the last two to three years I have been developing a style which is close to a hyper realistic style in painting, which I create works of a heightened clarity on the given subject, in my case the human face.
My passion in the photo-real had increased after seeing Chuck Close’s giant heads originally, and even non figurative painters like Richard Estes and Charles Bell which depict the everyday and simplicity of life. This really intrigues my art in which why I paint my work with a lot of passion for quite natural but beautiful snapshot paintings.
I paint my pieces section by section, as it gives extra clarity and care over small areas of the paintings surface, which if painted more traditionally you wouldn’t get the overall sharp focus I’m looking for. This is a long but rewarding process... I do look at natural expression also and crop my imagery quite sudden to get a realistic look of a situation.
I like to concentrate on the human form allot, because I believe people like to analyze the human condition for the good and bad points in general. Whether I paint a grittier real or ‘nicer on the eye’ subject the viewer is always intrigued in seeing elements on the hyper real thrown amongst it. Scrutinising detail is something as viewers I want to force to look on my work as it if was a map or landscape, and to give a sense of exploration when looking at my images. I want to throw the audience in the voyeur perspective of life.
Also I sketch a lot of things to do with everyday beauty and throw away commercial aspects of the changing world... Whether it’s people I know or magazine photos, I keep in touch with my overall realism style and like to blow things out of proportion with levels of detail and selected importance to the given photograph.
I can range from the out and out banal and gritty to the quite pretty and beauty of the human form, whatever makes the most compelling piece of art.
At the moment I am producing work which relates more to the nicer looking snapshot composed paintings... However I still want to add a good level of detail which represents the realistic interpretation of the way the human eye sees are things. And harshly cropping images gives a sense of enhanced truth about the image in which you stare at.
I have also been in numerous competitions and a selection of group shows. Such as the Royal society of portrait painters 2009, SAA Artist of the year 2009, The London Group ‘Open Exhibition’ 2009 and the Royal institute of oil painters 2008 which I won 1st prize in the Windsor and Newton award.
I have had some publications in certain magazines such as Blue Canvas magazine Issue 2, MORPH magazine article interviews, and even Artist & Illustrators magazine.
Since I was Sixteen I have been painting in oils. I was inspired by the commercial American artist Bill Pruitt when I was young and then started by just doing commercial celebrity portraits then slowly moving into more expressionistic detailed works in my college and university education.
In the last two to three years I have been developing a style which is close to a hyper realistic style in painting, which I create works of a heightened clarity on the given subject, in my case the human face.
My passion in the photo-real had increased after seeing Chuck Close’s giant heads originally, and even non figurative painters like Richard Estes and Charles Bell which depict the everyday and simplicity of life. This really intrigues my art in which why I paint my work with a lot of passion for quite natural but beautiful snapshot paintings.
I paint my pieces section by section, as it gives extra clarity and care over small areas of the paintings surface, which if painted more traditionally you wouldn’t get the overall sharp focus I’m looking for. This is a long but rewarding process... I do look at natural expression also and crop my imagery quite sudden to get a realistic look of a situation.
I like to concentrate on the human form allot, because I believe people like to analyze the human condition for the good and bad points in general. Whether I paint a grittier real or ‘nicer on the eye’ subject the viewer is always intrigued in seeing elements on the hyper real thrown amongst it. Scrutinising detail is something as viewers I want to force to look on my work as it if was a map or landscape, and to give a sense of exploration when looking at my images. I want to throw the audience in the voyeur perspective of life.
Also I sketch a lot of things to do with everyday beauty and throw away commercial aspects of the changing world... Whether it’s people I know or magazine photos, I keep in touch with my overall realism style and like to blow things out of proportion with levels of detail and selected importance to the given photograph.
I can range from the out and out banal and gritty to the quite pretty and beauty of the human form, whatever makes the most compelling piece of art.
At the moment I am producing work which relates more to the nicer looking snapshot composed paintings... However I still want to add a good level of detail which represents the realistic interpretation of the way the human eye sees are things. And harshly cropping images gives a sense of enhanced truth about the image in which you stare at.
I have also been in numerous competitions and a selection of group shows. Such as the Royal society of portrait painters 2009, SAA Artist of the year 2009, The London Group ‘Open Exhibition’ 2009 and the Royal institute of oil painters 2008 which I won 1st prize in the Windsor and Newton award.
I have had some publications in certain magazines such as Blue Canvas magazine Issue 2, MORPH magazine article interviews, and even Artist & Illustrators magazine.