Gareth James Luxton
Artist
About Gareth James Luxton
Experience
Experience
Experience
I have always had a passion for portraiture, exploring identity through drawing, photography, sculpture, film making and painting. I started teaching Art in 2012 and through communicating and discussing ideas and artists, demonstrating techniques, and evaluating the outcomes with my students, I greatly developed my own practice.
Style
Experience
Experience
My work is influenced by the symbolic and historical representations of humanity in works by Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Holbein, Georges de la Tour and Rembrandt, but also in the more painterly representations in works by Andrew Salgado, Conor Harrington, Christian Hook and David Hockney.I am intrigued by what paint can do, how it can become h
My work is influenced by the symbolic and historical representations of humanity in works by Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Holbein, Georges de la Tour and Rembrandt, but also in the more painterly representations in works by Andrew Salgado, Conor Harrington, Christian Hook and David Hockney.I am intrigued by what paint can do, how it can become hair, skin, clothes etc, but I still want it to be essentially paint i.e. fluid and gestural.
Process
Experience
Process
I begin each piece with a vision in mind, but allow the materials and my instincts to guide me as I work. There is a battle between representation and abstraction therefore my work can be a frenetic journey of working, correcting, erasing, and reworking. This carries on until I am content with both the mark making and how the subject is represented.
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