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Eddystone Lighthouse by JJ Adams

Featured in Vogue & GQ and having worked alongside clients like Rolls Royce and Bang & Olufsen, JJ Adams is rapidly becoming one of the UK’s most talked about and collectible artists. He is bold and confident in style often completely transforming celebrity images or iconic landmarks with his own inimitable edge and blurring the lines between new media, pop, fine art, digital art and photography.

Adams uses a range of new and mixed media in his work from spray painting to hand painting acrylics, stenciling, screen printing, collage and digital composite and matte painting as well as photography.

“I love drawing and painting on canvas but I also love working digitally and with new mediums, the difference between traditional and digital art is that you don’t have to wait for pixels to dry and layers can be independently adjusted, I try and fuse different mediums wherever I can, I mix my own colour palette and take samples for my digital work or photograph my own textures and objects to use in them, the more I can use that is real the more I feel that the piece starts to come alive”

“Someone said to me, You work digitally? which made me laugh, It takes just as long to create something digitally and there isn’t a button you push that does everything for you. If I took a photograph and meticulously painted over it digitally does that make the photographic part of it void? Writing a book in Microsoft Word isn’t cheating compared to writing it by hand on paper, its just a different way of conveying a story, besides who determines how good something is based on the time taken to create it or how it’s created, some of Picasso’s sketches took seconds but you try and replicate one, it’s not that easy, anyone can learn to draw or paint but it’s how you use that knowledge and what you create”.