James Nares

Films, Oil Paintings — By Unknown Artist on August 5, 2009 at 3:21 pm

James Nares was born in 1953 in England and living in New York since 1974. After a foundation year at Falmouth Art College he went on to study fine art at Chelsea in 1972. While there, he took advantage of a student exchange program to go to the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1974-76 and has lived in America ever since. He has worked in film and music but it is his painting that has brought him the greatest recognition. His beautiful non-objective paintings, which despite being large are executed in single gestural strokes, often using brushes he makes himself.

 

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