Absolutely beautiful colours, and love the thick paint, makes me want to go on holiday!

This is so clean! Brilliantly done, it looks incredible! And love the optical illusion when scrolling!

Your style and the tones used are absolutely beautiful! I really love the way the colour is layered and the texture it makes!

I completely get your point about technology, I have seen a lot of similar images that have been made digitally to emulate traditional fine art. I work in graphic design and the software I use every day has lots of tools for replicating realistic brush strokes, as well as textures to overlay onto the document as a whole. That being said, I think there are a huge number of objects and products that people continue to make by hand despite the fact that there are processes and machine that COULD also produce them. Certain markets continue to pay a lot more for clothes that have been sewn or knit by hand, pottery that has been hand sculpted, furniture that has been hand carved. I think the same applies to realist art, while many people will be happy with something digital or a photo, the market will still be there for a painting. In terms of the artists personal impression, I try to communicate things through composition, and I think you can say quite a lot whilst still conforming to the realist style. I think it’s also important to consider is the way the art is being received, it just doesn’t translate onto a screen, and while we can admire a painting for looking like a photo, for me I’ll always been amazed standing in front of a piece of realist art, seeing the tiny details but also the texture and depth that comes with brush strokes. That being said, I’m probably biased because this is the type of art I personally love most!

I can’t speak for this artist but I paint realism and I personally love the technical challenge - I like each piece to be more demanding than the last to drive myself to be constantly improving. But more than anything, I think that when you paint realism it makes you stop and notice every detail, and that there’s a real beauty in that. You notice so many things you’d otherwise glance over, whether that’s intricate patterns, the way shadows and light hit something, or spots of intense colour that would otherwise go unnoticed. I know a lot of people see it as uncreative or unexciting, but I think it makes me spot the exciting in the otherwise ordinary, and I really love that.

Wow! You’re so talented, this is so realistic it’s like I can feel what it’d be like to be walking through this painting!