James Budden

In 1996, after graduating from Coventry Art School with some well-developed skills James went about the business of painting commercially. During this time, he honed several techniques, and discovered a lot about what he was good at.
James now only works from life, hardly ever photographs. For subject matter, he has always been inclined towards the human form and face. More recently James has been rediscovering still life and plein air.
“Making art is my way of discovering myself. In painting and drawing I see my own nature, the confidences and inhibitions, the profound and the mundane.
We all communicate on a sub-linguistic level. Painting gives me the opportunity to look at what we experience as human beings before it gets squeezed into words and keep a little bit of it.
When working I am at my most honest, and most alive”.