"Fallen Ram" Painting

Aubrey Higgin is a British artist whose paintings capture movement and energy using vivid colours to portray positivity and vitality. He works in a heavy impasto style using oils in a contemporary way, but in keeping with the archival methods of past masters. His paintings have been exhibited in places such as The Dorchester Hotel, London, and sold all over the World, in places such as Geneva, Santa Monica, Gothenburg, Dubai and Rome. Aubrey Higgin has a big interest in the impact that art can have on well being through shapes and colour. He has recently worked with charities such as The James Wentworth-Stanley Memorial fund. - To help raise awareness of anxiety, depression and suicide amongst young people and to tackle the terrible and shocking statistic that suicide is the leading cause of death amongst young men in the UK. He developed an interest in the arts at a very young age from painting with his Grandmother, who inspired his love of art. Subsequently, he was awarded an Art Scholarship. He is a graduate of the BA Art programme at Reading University. From helping to design stage backdrops, to carrying his camera around at festivals to sketching scenes of sporting events, he has always associated art with his everyday life. His practice spans installation, film, photography, and painting, with the latter being his keenest field. This interest was conceived as a teenager by taking pictures of cars and lights. He loved the unknown outcome that came about from taking photos of cars and river lights at night on a long shutter speed; despite photographing the same scenes, the result would never be the same. This inspired his style of motion and movement in his art. This combined with the theme of the unknown came about from his battle with an undiagnosed illness for two years, a period in which he developed a keen interest in Damian Hirst and the sublime. His works are a representation of life after illness. During this period, he met many others who had suffered similar circumstances; this gave him hope, and reminded him that one is never truly alone. The unwelcome and unfavourable unknown can be horrendous; he noticed how much harder it was to deal with the illness when he was without answers than when he finally had some knowledge of what was actually wrong with him. It was during this time that he felt most alone and distraught. He used the paintings as a way to bring out hope and the positive spirit.