Perception VI Painting

I’m a British portrait painter, using a semi-abstract approach to depict the human face. The abstract paint is driven by emotion; screaming neon spray paint layered under cool, thick, painterly acrylics, then tempered with drawing; realistic eyes gaze out from the abstract marks. The paint becomes the flesh and skin, mixing and churning in an honest show of the soul. Influenced by the most intense but unspoken feelings, the work aims to convey the depths of human emotion. As a child, talking about how we felt never really happened, but art was my escape, a place where I couldn’t be wrong or afraid of its response. I paint because it allows me to say all the things I couldn't say as a child, and what I daren't say as an adult. The work fills all the depths of emotion where I lack the words, or perhaps the knowledge of how to put them together properly.