Bio
A portrait can be unsettling to the person I have portrayed, because it puts on display the vulnerable pieces that they try to hide.
Jason Boyd Kinsella explores the visceral elements of our mental landscape, the whole canopy of internal experience seeps through us, in our image and actions; Jason wishes to capture this in a way that nods to our increasingly close connections to digital versions of ourselves. Like so many artists, Jason's artistic journey is one rooted in pencil and paper. The appreciation of line and form that drawing instills in the artist remains a key factor of Jason's practice. He spends every morning sketching and, when a certain work stands out, he transfers that sketch to a computer. Here, the previously tentative marks of the sketch become the firm boundaries of digitally rendered shapes; colour is then added and manipulated, shapes are repositioned and reorientated until the essence of the figure Jason wishes to capture is faithfully represented. He then works from this reference using oil paints on canvas, reinstating the crucial human component that's considered tantamount to the artistic process. The results are large-scale, beautiful portraits that are both conceptually enticing and technically accomplished.
