A Blanket of Gold Painting

I am a 27-year-old self-taught artist based in South London. Taking particular inspiration from artists in the Baroque period, I work chiefly in oils. As a young man, often feeling removed from the extraordinary, I found solace in my art. Nurturing my relationship with painting, particularly with oils, I became immersed in painting the loved ones around me. I relished in portraiture; in which I discovered the exquisite in the mundane, the divine in the ordinary and the light in the dark. Merging elements of iconography and Baroque artists, from whom I draw most inspiration; in this series I celebrate the celestial nature of everyday people and their beauty within.