Art Unmasked

James is preoccupied with how humans leave a trace of their presence both as individuals and collectively on the world; the presence of a figure in a room, the trajectory of a cyclist across a park, or more destructive collisions of humanity with the natural world. He is fascinated by how marks on a surface can both create and destroy. 

He uses a combination of flattened acrylic grounds and viscerally applied oils as well as a myriad of different brushstrokes, scratches, glazes, and spatters that fetishise both the medium of paint and the subject he is painting equally. Ultimately James seeks in his paintings to explore both the desire and the disquietude in the human experience through his own experience as a queer artist living and working both in the heart of the city and now in rural isolation.

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