Hopjuice Painting

My name is Kon Turner, I was born in 1988 in Berlin and have been living in Berlin and Melbourne since then. I mainly focus on acrylics and spray paint on canvases or wood panels. My pieces are heavily influenced by Graffiti art which I have been creating since 1996. As such, my artwork has been exhibited throughout Berlin on the walls of the city. My work combines contrasting colours and geometric forms. Explosive swings, fast brush strokes and squeegee techniques generate abstract or realistic art pieces that feel dynamic, agile and bright. Everything in life is composed of light, shadow and depths in myriad combinations, so we have to accept that many of them are never fully explored or understood. My paintings feel like a puzzle where I have taken life apart and let you, the viewer, put it back together. When looking at my paintings I invite you to start searching for the inexplicable, Imagine a riddle that cannot be solved, I want you to grumble, I want you to dream. “Whenever I am about to create a new piece of art, I will stare at this pristine thing - this spotless canvas - but feel too anxious to start. Until I do and the malaise gets replaced by an agravic flow state.”