Who am I?

My name is Luke, and I am a self-taught freelance artist from Beckenham, South East London and I have been creating work for over 12 years. I’m a Hyper-realist artist at heart, but enjoy crossing paths with the abstract world to create a fusion of the two.

In my early years, I was fascinated by cars, bikes and cartoons. I had this ability to look at something I liked (usually a car), and just copy it straight to paper, albeit not as accurate as I thought they were back then, they were way ahead of what most were capable of at that age. I was also an avid Lego enthusiast, which only added to the amount of creativity I had spinning around my head at the time. Only when I got to the age of 15 did I realise that drawing was a real passion of mine. I became obsessed with eyes, and after learning about 'The Gaze' while studying art at secondary school, I was hooked on drawing the most hyper-realistic portraits as possible. I begun with pencils, but quickly moved to biro’s, as I enjoyed the challenge they posed. In these formative years, I took immense inspiration from artists such as Chuck Close and James Mylne.

My recent work explores the balance between realism and pop art, with a big shift away from monochrome and into the world of colour! I’ve always focused on monochrome work and probably always will to a degree, but it does have its limitations. It felt like the right step to take in terms of my progression as an artist and I am very excited to see whats next!