About his Artwork

Although often specializing in artistic nude canvas paintings, his work encompasses a wide variety of subjects. He sells signed prints, original artwork, has downloadable images and music.

The art work is a balance between abstraction and realism. Pulling both together and bringing both disciplines to form a self contradictory abstract realism. This allows interaction between the art and the viewer. What the artist brings to the piece is only part of the art, what you see and how you feel about it is what completes the work. When you own the original, it is you who finished the piece. Where you choose to hang it and what you feel about it are the final strokes that complete the work.

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About the Artist

Samuel Durkin was born in 1972 in Portsmouth England. he grew up in Wallingford, a small town in Oxfordshire, England. His Mother a local artist ran an art shop and gallery in the town, he was always surrounded by art and artists. Self taught, as with most youngsters, he never listened to his mother. Although as he gets older he realizes his style has been influenced by all her art that which he saw as he grew up.

He was a sickly nervous child, and spent much of his time away from school. It is only recently he has discovered to have a wheat, milk, egg and yeast allergies, which played a major part in his sickness. This time away from school was always used productively for painting and drawing.

After art college he became withdrawn and quite unwell, and had a breakdown. Living alone, not seeing anyone for weeks at a time. he would spending all his spare cash on paint and canvas, sometimes foregoing eating to pay for art materials. This time was a learning experience of far greater importance than college and taught him new ways to approach and think about art.
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Today

Now many years later, he has found love, passion, and the support of many wonderful friends. The stability that brings made it possible for him to continue painting, to sell it and run this website.

Even though he has suffered the occasional short breakdowns and a heart failure he continues to work hard. Learning the lesson of the past, using meditation, and avoiding things that may cause him harm he is always able to paint and run this website. His goals in life are to maintaining high standards, to sell art people want, to treat customers, artists and employees in a fair and ethical way. Spurred on by the many people who have brought and love his art, he believes anything is possible, and knows the future is bright.

His work is abstract and impressionist, trying to keep a balance between identifiable images and a painterly abstraction. He has become best know for his nude and cityscape painting. The focus is on the painting technique and the beauty of form. His work expresses his feelings thought the paint and is designed to enlighten your life.

The Watcher

This piece is was created during the time he had his first mental breakdown at about the age of 20. He has never put it up for sale, and says it never will be. This image haunted him day and night. He saw it in the patterns in tarmac and drew it directly onto his trousers. Then in a 5 week long session painting everyday, this was the final result. This piece marked a distict turn in his artist style, but feeling he had created his best work almost crippled his ability to continue. After finishing it he stopped painting and didn't pick up a brush again for 5 years. He has come to realize this was a self portrait. The style now influences all his others work and some have said that it resembles some of Francis Bacons paintings. Although this style was developed in a dark mental state, he has applied it to much more aesthetic images. To understand this painting to understand everything he creates

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