Brendan Fahy

I was Born in Cambridgeshire, England and have spent most of my life living in England but also spent some of my childhood living in Germany and on the Isle of Man. I studied General Art and Design for two years at the Norfolk Institute of Art and Design (Great Yarmouth). After which I changed direction to do a science degree and have been working in science ever since.
Although I changed career path I have kept a strong interest in art and in making my own art. I am a painter and most of my work is with acrylics but I also use other media including oils, marker pen, digital art and collage.
Why do I paint? I like being able to produce something beautiful or somehow interesting from nothing. For me painting can often be a slow and painstaking process and the end product nearly always turns out very different from my initial vision. This however, is a big part of the appeal of painting - when a work turns out in a surprising way which also works, this is a fantastic feeling. Even when a painting turns out badly there is usually something about it which I want to expand on or use again in future.
I like to change the way I work regularly, although it may be for the viewer to decide if there is still a consistent style in my work...