Hardcore Movies Artwork

A couple of random pics from a trip to Holland have been pulled together to create one of my favourite pieces.The palm trees bring a hint of Miami to this amazing city. Created using acrylic and spray paint, stencils, watercolour paper, graph papers, photos, silver leaf and screen printing on 8mm plywood art board. Original artwork comes float framed under acrylic glass. Translating the ideas in my head into real, ‘hold-in-your-hands’ artwork takes many steps. I realised quite quickly that one medium alone would not do the trick. I usually start with taking photos on journeys taken around the world. It takes time to really get under the skin of a place and you have to be in the right frame of mind to spot the unusual things that have a beauty of their own. From here the vision of the final piece starts forming. Once I get home, I digitally collage the photos and plan the composition of the future painting. This can sometimes take many months until I feel ready to produce the final piece for real. During the final creation, things change and evolve in a way that can only happen when creating by hand. Using acrylic paints, spray paints, bespoke designed stencils, screen printing, graph papers and collaged papers, there are many points in the process where the art naturally evolves . The happy mistakes can often bring a new element to the original vision.