Russell Scott-Skinner

Russell Scott-Skinner is an artist, painter and photographer located in Farningham, Kent. Following a successful solo exhibition on London's famous Embankment art critics are now labelling him as "˜One to watch in the art world!' The next Andy Warhol! His unique abstract paintings and journalistic natural style of portrait photography continue to grow from strength to strength.
Descendant of the famous composer James Scott Skinner, Russell was born on an RAF base in Lincolnshire, England in 1979 and by the age of 18 had moved house 12 times across three different counties. Following school, his path misdirected from art until a moment of clarity propelled a massive "˜you turn' towards his life as an artist and the visual world. Following this return an almost self taught foundation year ensued where he knew his style would need time without influence to develop into a personal and unique visual language. He moved to South London and found work as trainee photographer to provide time and finances while he developed his style as a painter. His love of photography as a medium grew and grew. In 2006 he built and set up his own photographic studio in Sevenoaks, Kent. This provided him with the space and time to develop as an artist, p...

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