Foster M

Foster-m is a Sheffield (united kingdom) born artist.
Working out of his F28b studio based in a disused machine factory in the old industrial part of the city.
Using mixed media, not just on canvas but on any materials he can salvage or reclaim from his surrounding environment, wood, boards, old shop signs, roofing-felt, concrete sheets and numerous found objects.
Having been brought up on the notorious KELVIN FLATS COMPLEX his works portray a cold alienation and social estrangement, so at first glance his paintings come across as violent, dark, self-destructive, full of chaotic lines, decaying figures, coded symbols and abstract texts which he refers to as primitive metaphors.
But scratch the surface of the multi-layered work and you start to unlock a real warmth, a brutally honest social comment on his life and hostile environment, a life he describes as in isolation.
You would expect this vision to leave you stone cold but that's the great appeal to this artist and his work. The way he seamlessly brings the violence, chaos, dislocation and brutality into a harmony that shrouds you with a warmth and sense of connection.
On one of his paintings it says, " I can only relate to those I was dragged up with" but take a long har...