About the artist
Making room for what remains.
James Bone is a UK-based visual artist whose work looks to the shifting nature of memory, weather and place. His paintings are made slowly, with a close attention to what a surface can carry.
Based in the UK / working from observation and recollection
Studio practice
Images gathered over time.
The studio is a place for returning: to photographs, walks, half-remembered colours and the physical traces left by earlier paintings. These materials become prompts rather than instructions.
Working across canvas, linen and board, James moves between oil, graphite, ash and dry pigment. The resulting paintings are quiet but active, inviting a long look rather than offering a fixed account.
“A painting is not an illustration of a memory. It is a place where memory can keep changing.”
A way of working
Painting as an accumulation of attention.
James Bone makes paintings that let visible decisions remain part of the finished work. Pigment is layered, rubbed back and interrupted with drawn marks, allowing the image to settle gradually rather than arrive all at once.
A painting should keep company.
The work is for people who value an image that continues to reveal itself: on the wall, in changing daylight and through the different seasons of a room.
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