I like to record my paintings as they are made.This work is part of a body of work which goes with the other acrylic on canvas I have featured on this blog titled ‘little fat dress’This painting of a dress […]
Ghada Amer(b1963) Ghada Amer was born in Cairo Egypt and moved to France as a child and them went to live and work in the USA. I have looked a lot at Ghada Amer in the past as I can […]
With this self-portrait I aimed to paint a contemporary piece that would show masculinity whilst also displaying what I enjoy doing most, painting. The idea was to paint the portrait as if I was looking back at myself concentrating on […]
This was a painting I created using acrylic paint, black Indian ink and fine liner pen, I watered down the acrylic and ink to achieve a ‘watercolour’ wash of effects and wanted the colours to blend into each other. I […]
In this piece, I painted a symbolic representation of David Bowie’s song ‘Life on Mars?’ released in 1971. The line ‘Now she walks through her sunken dream’ conjured images of a surreal, blurred reality and the young girl with ‘mousy […]
My prep for a new set of portraits of British Raj officers, based on the collection of the City Palace Museum, Udaiphur, India
Selection of paintings at the Galleon Grill Blackpool September 2015. James Loy displays some of his work on how he explains the differences between the rich and the poor in society, using the dog as symbol. His style changes from representation to abstract and is ongoing.
