Vortical Flow Painting

My name is Adam and I was born in Rochford, Essex in 1980. I am now 30 years old and began to paint again in 2005. I hadn't picked up a paintbrush since I was 18 when I did Art A-Level. so quite a large gap!My work is inspired by the pop artists and tends to feature famous faces and celebrity but with a slight political undertone. To be honest, this was not really deliberate. The majority of my pieces are produced using oils but with a central image or images that I have found in books, magazines, flyers and newspapers. These images have struck a chord in someway and I have then based the rest of the piece around these "found" items. I do no prep work for my final work. I tend to improvise and make it up as I go along which I find to be more fun and spontaneous. So there are no sketches or sketchbook work. Just the final piece as it is. Once I have the cut-out image on the canvas, it is just a case of how I feel I can then use that image againin a different way than was originally intended, and turn it into an artwork in it's own right, surrounded by the ideas and imagination of myself.