Escape Into Life

A bumbling but keen amateur photographer living in York.

My painting is, I think, completely different because it is vegetative painting.

Casting himself as the protagonist in each piece, Franssen wanders through lands that mirror Tolkien’s Middle Earth, or the dangerous, viking- and barbarian-infested environment of a Frank Frazetta painting.

Inspired by experiences from disease and recovery, his paintings and drawings reflect ideas of reincarnation and the richness of life beyond death.

Based in New York and Tel Aviv, Shai Kremer has exhibited internationally with shows in the USA, China, and throughout Europe.

By breaking the painting down into a grid of pixels and outsourcing the work, Gray builds a virtual factory by way of the Internet.