Johnny Popkess, United Kingdom
Coast Guard
Oil on Canvas
20 W x 23.8 H x 1.4 in
Johnny Popkess was born in London, "I
spent much of my early life in various fairly remote parts of Africa,
developing a fondness for beauty in its most natural state - as things really
are, rather than as they are often made to appear. I moved to the heart of Paris,
within a stone's throw of the Sorbonne, the Louvre and my neighbour, the Musee
d'Orsay, from where a love of art proved irresistible. 2011 was my debut year
as a professional artist, one that saw my first solo exhibitions. My work is
now hung in an ever growing group of fine art galleries throughout the UK,
France, Germany Switzerland, Bahrain and South Africa, with recent exhibitions
in Antwerp and Paris and a forthcoming one in Boston, planned for early 2018.
2014/2015 were both award winning years.
My aim is
to strip away the veneer of a subject and to capture a moment, not a dramatic
one, something evocative perhaps, occasionally ordinary but always honest and
without the need for a narrative. Art is nothing, if it does not speak... If
the power of art is to move the soul, then I am influenced by an an army of
giants of whom Caravaggio, Velasquez, Titian, Caillebot, Pizarro and Freud
lead.
I am a figurative artist with a passion for the human form.
I portray the body as it should be seen, bold and proud, not hidden by layers
of cliche. Painting exclusively with the finest oils on stretched linen canvas,
my work is classically crafted in the Caravaggio tradition with a contemporary
feel, depicting a moment in time. It is for the viewer to add the
narrative." More on
Johnny Popkess
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Collector, Mythology, Marine
Art, Portrait of a Lady, The
Orientalist, Art of the Nude and The Canals of
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