UK Artists Archives – Daily Art Fixx

David Walker: Urban Art

January 11, 2011 By Wendy Campbell

“Working in portraiture, UK artist David Walker’s medium is spray paint. He uses no brushes and has developed a signature multi-layered style, where marks are created, scraped off and then recreated. The results speak for themselves – visually rich canvases that fuse photo realism, abstraction and graffiti sensibilities, with a raw energy that comes from the medium.

David has exhibited all over the world including New York, Hong Kong, Bali, Lisbon, Berlin and more, as well participating in key events like Banksy’s Cans 2 festival and showing alongside Guy Denning at the highly regarded Brooklynite Gallery in New York. He is a member of the Scrawl Collective, is a regular on the urban contemporary art scene and his prolific and evolving output has seen his work become highly collectible.” (from 2R Art)

To see more of Walker’s work, visit ArtofDavidWalker.com.

Russ Mills: Illustration

December 21, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Born in 1971 in Exeter, Devon. UK, Russ Mills graduated from Leeds Met University in 1995 after completing a BA in Graphic Art and Design, specialising in Experimental Film and Animation. After finding gainful employment in various non-creative institutions, Mills went back to basics and began work with pen, pencil and computer.

Mills has worked as a freelance illustrator with numerous clients in publishing and entertainment, more recently pursuing the more traditional gallery/exhibitive path with solo shows in London and Bristol, and group exhibits in the U.S.

His current work is an clash of styles from classical to pop surrealism, focusing predominantly on the human form, though also abstracting elements from nature and the animal kingdom. To create his pieces, Mills compiles as much source material as possible in the form of textures, random marks, and scribbles, etc. He then scans these materials and the primary image and manipulates the parts digitally. He keeps the amount of layers to a minimum so the results are as spontaneous as possible. He doesn’t use any filters in order to keep the “digital” nature of the image to a minimum.

To see more of Mill’s work, visit ByroGlyphics.com. To see more work from his most exhibition “Subsidiary’, visit Signal Gallery.

Nom Kinnear-King: Painting

December 1, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

London based artist Nom Kinnear-King has a BA in Fine Art Print and Photo Media from Norwich School of Art and Design in the UK . Her paintings and drawings have been featured on Creep Machine, Caarpaccio.(Spain), in Death Mook (Australia) and currently featured in ‘ Ballad of’ magazine (London) and as the cover art for French Novel “L’Ecole des dingues” by Cornelia Read.

” My art has always been focused on creating female characters, the world around them and the narrative this creates. It is a world full of precious objects, secrecy and hopeful magic. These oil paintings and mixed medium drawings trail along a between the line of real and imaginary. My note book is vital to me, my scrapbook and camera of perhaps next importance. I begin a piece with sketching thoughts, after which go about collecting imagery the collageing these together to make the final piece and letting it develop along the way. I am inspired by a mixed up jumble of things from eastern Europe to South America, from Tom Waits to Amelie to a ornament found at a boot sale.” (bio from artist’s website)

To see more, visit NomKinnearKing.com.

Sources: Floren Gallery,

Nick Brandt: Wildlife Photography

August 28, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Today: the majestic photographs of Nick Brandt. Born and raised in London, England, Brandt studied film and painting at St. Martins School of Art. After college, he moved to California and became a well-known music video director for stars such as Michael Jackson (Earth Song) and Moby (Play). It was while directing “Earth Song” in Tanzania that Brandt‘s love of East Africa and its animal inhabitants began.

Brandt’s style is unlike other wildlife photographers who tend to focus on “action shots”. Instead, his black and white, fine art photos, are intimate, capturing not only beautiful landscapes, but also the personalities of his subjects.

Many of Brandt’s photographs look like paintings. He achieves this effect by getting extremely close to the animals, (using no telephoto lenses) and includes as much of the sky and landscape as possible so that the animals are seen in the context of their environment. He sometimes tracks his subjects for days to discover the perfect composition. Brandt admits his photos are unashamedly idyllic and romantic. “They’re my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.”

Brandt has had numerous solo exhibitions across North America and Europe and published the book “On This Earth” in 2005. His new book entitled “A Shadow Falls” will be released in September 2009.

To enjoy more photographs visit NickBrandt.com or the Young Gallery for a detailed biography.