Si Gross

Mixed Media Artist. A curious creator of visual stories. Making Art based on stories about people and creatures. Drawing ideas from nature, ancient tales and current affairs. A world full of truth, mystery and lies. I capture their perceptions and how they behave with sincere and satirical illustrations.

Using my digital camera as a journal, travelling and collecting photos. Certain images jump out for further inspection and transformation.

I create designs, through a process of photographs transformed into digital or ink drawings. Made into something I can touch with printing, spray cans and pump-action paint pens. Switching between stark monochrome or painterly colours that are bold and dramatic.

I paint originals onto wood and metal panels. It's a solid surface that can soak up all those thick luscious layers of painted texture. I use screen printing because it allows repetition of motif and gives fast, simple colour changes that delivers a tactile hand finish. Also drawn to giclée printing due to the high quality lush pigments. My prints are made into limited editions.

1st Class BA Fine Art Degree at The University of Central Lancashire in 2001

RA Summer Exhibition 2019 Entry 863 The Tip of Atlantis