An artist I am currently looking at is Danny O'Connor, a UK artist. He is primarily a portraiture artist and works over different mediums. Usually starting on graphite and taking them into photoshop to turn them into digital works, or making large scale works using graphite, collage, acrylic, oil, correction fluid, paint markers and other mediums.
I think I am drawn to his works because they are so free. He doesn't restrict himself to the one medium, and his work flows freely. The use of the flowing lines comes across as very organic, and the limited colour palette of reds and blues contrasts each other beautifully. I am quite drawn to his works featuring plants and animals with the posing model as I am very interested in the idea of humans and nature as one.
His collage works are built upon multiple layers that do not always use conventional tools or mediums and I am interested in exploring this idea of the unconventional.
Danny explains his work by saying; "My work is a celebration of contrasts focusing mainly on portraits and figures....I like to mix natural flowing lines with harsh diagonals. Clean crisp areas of colour with layered messy splashes of paint.....I'm trying to achieve something that is both modern and almost futuristic whilst retaining a new traditional aesthetic."
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