Joshua

Joshua likes creating detailed drawings of animals using reference images as a starting point.

He is interested in texture and line in his work, getting inspired by the lines of fur on an animal and carrying that texture into the background of the work.

Joshua is fluid in a variety of mediums, such as acrylic and oil paint, charcoal, oil pastel and pencil drawing and likes to explore their properties

Original Art:

Josh in the studio:

This body of work is an approach to portraiture. The final portraits are called ‘The disrupted person’ and The disrupted person part two'.’

The ‘Disrupted person’ was created using oils and ink, and created from Joshua’s imagination.

‘I was using oils to make an abstract portrait series of dark emotion but also using the technique of making a portrait differently.’

‘The Disrupted person part two’ was created with ink, chalk and charcoal, starting from an abstract base which variation are displayed here, made by using different mark making tools, such as a ink brush on a string. The process can be seen below.