James Reynolds

Artist, living and working in London creating paintings that are primarily based around figurative concerns.

More recently my work has retained the figurative aspects that primarily hold interest for me, employing more observational drawing and relying on the repetition of painting to find and ‘describe’ the image. My painting practice is often quite spontaneous, with the challenges of drawing, colour and composition being worked out on the surface. This, for me, gives the work a history and narrative with the glimpses of previous marks and colours that lend a sense of both frustration and resolution.

I’m very interested in working practices that are borne from an inherent understanding of the materials to hand. This is not restricted to painting but does involve other forms of mark making and construction techniques. Paint has been the obsession for most of my art practice and the resultant challenges this presents in creating work that is a reflection on traditional representation and pushing beyond the normal expectations of portraiture. My work is predominately derived from ‘the self’ and through the process of working, the faces become more anonymous to an end result that is traditionally applied yet retains little of th...

Leeds Metropolitan University, BA(Hons) Fine Art Painting

Group
1997 – Selected for Northern Graduates Exhibition, Curwen Gallery, London
1998 – Artescape exhibition at Greestone Gallery, De Montfort University, Lincoln. Dual show with other Artescape Artist-in-Residence
1998 – Friends School summer exhibition group show, Friends School, Saffron Walden
2001 – Art on the Map, Lincolnshire open studios group exhibition
2002 – Art on the Map, Lincolnshire open studios group exhibition
2011 – Free Painters & Sculptors group show winter exhibition, ‘Conflict and Resolution’, La Galleria, London
2012 – Free Painters & sculptors group show winter exhibition, ‘Then and Now’, Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, London
2012 – Selected artist for Casa del Artes Gallery, Chiswick
2013 – ‘Red Revised’, Cultivate gallery, Vyner Street, London
2013 – Free Painters and Sculptors group show summer exhibition, ‘Works on Paper’ Espacio Gallery, London
2014 - 'Artcrasher', San Francisco
2014 - 'The Elusive Line', Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London
2014 - Cass Business School, Bunhill Row, London
Solo
1998 – Artescape Trust, Lincolnshire
1998 – Trinity Arts Centre, Gainsborough
1998 – Friends School, Saffron Walden
2012 – Sprout Gallery, London
2013 – Sprout Gallery, London
Upcoming
2014 - ...