Paul Bress

Today ‘posterised’ art images and prints come two a penny – albeit costing lot more on poster sites selling them. Indeed anyone can now ‘posterise’ or ‘oil paint’ an image with a single click using the ‘image editing’ and ‘special effects’ software built into their digital cameras, smart phones, tablet apps or computer ‘paint’ programmes.

Though the results are often very surprising, pleasing and even dramatic, what characterises this instant ‘techno-art’ of posteri(s/z)ation and other special effects such as ‘oil painting’ is precisely they requires no art and even no artist at all to create. For unless the images which are posterised are based on authentic art photography, the sole ‘artist’ is just a piece of in-built digital software.

All the more surprising then, to come across an artist called Paul Bress who - without use or even knowledge of instant digital posterisation and other technical tricks - came to spontaneously create acrylic art portraiture sharing the same basic character of technical ‘posterisation art’– the use of unmerged colour zones - albeit with one big difference. For the result is actually a work of art in the traditional sense – created through the genuine and impressive painterly skills o...

MA in TEFL

Several exhibitions in Kent, UK.