Studio notes / UK
Paintings shaped by weather, memory and the slow work of looking.
James Bone is a UK-based visual artist making quietly charged works for rooms, collections and particular lives.
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A working collection
Recent pieces from an ongoing conversation between place, material and attention.
Hendrixxed
Original work by James Bone
2026
Entertaining Mr.Crane
Acrylic on Board
2024
Depression
Acrylic on Board
2023
Studio perspective
The work begins before the first mark.
Layers are built slowly: found images, rubbed graphite, scraped passages of paint. Each painting holds its own weather, gathered over time rather than arranged all at once.
“I am looking for the moment a surface begins to remember.”
Studio log / North of England
Commissioned work
A painting made for a particular place.
For homes, projects and meaningful gifts, James welcomes conversations about scale, palette and the atmosphere a work might hold.
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