The Night Drawing

Ca bfuill tu my name is James and I am from Ireland where I was born in 1979 and was raised outside a small village called Ballindangan .I have been a creator or imitator since I was able to lift a pen and had decided from an early age to be an artist .I am a graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design where I majored in fine art printmaking .I became a member of the Limerick printmakers upon completion of my studies and remained a member there for 3 years before I began my travels .I currently reside in South Korea where I am teaching and completing work for my next exhibition.My work is mostly meticulous and detailed and really takes me some time to complete but thats how I like it .Some tuthors would often say to me why do you just take the source material and just do a digital print but if I had done that then I would have done away with the best part which is the graft and technique the parts I enjoy .I am inspired by artists such as Dali and Close,Beardsley and Clarke as well as the contemporary Japanese printmakers whose work and detail is just mindblowing My work is both realistic nd expressionistic and dark but I dont like to label it just create it I think that is a problem in todays society everything has to have a name and fit in a corrosponding box in order for people to feel safe and comfartble confucianist and restricting.I like to hint at a story in my work bringing unrelated images together in to one piece sometimes creating images within images which is where my work was moving towards in my last year in college.I hope you enjoy and feel free to send on any feedback.