Artist Talk: Ryan Holloway
Times: Sundays from 11am
FREE EVENT
Ryan is a Brighton & Hove based figurative and portrait artist and residence artist at Liberation Art Gallery in Brighton.
He completed a degree in Art & Design and Media Studies back in the late 90s.
It was 2019 when he decided to put a 15-year career in publicity aside to once again feed his creativity and pick up a paint brush.
His portraiture comes from a fascination with people and their emotional motivation, and he seeks to find the real person behind the face that we show to the world.
Sometimes all it takes is a look in the eye or a slight curve of the mouth to capture the essence of a person and this is what drives his paintings.
Through his work he seeks to find connection with people, hoping that they learn something about him and in turn learn something about themselves.
“I’m not always interested in literal likeness when I paint a subject but in what gives a person their uniqueness. I love to paint something that brings joy to someone, and it really is my motivation to paint.”
Ryan is a instinctive artist and buyer of art. If it makes him feel something he’ll fall in love with it. His hope is that his work gives people that same visceral feeling.
Liberation Art Gallery
38 MEETING HOUSE LANE,
BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX,
ENGLAND, BN1 1HB
