Julian Pinnick

Julian Pinnick is Nottingham based artist specializing in oil painting and hand-drawn illustration. Over the past few years Julian has developed his own individual style of narrative paintings inspired by the urban environment.

"What inspires me to make art? People and places, mostly. By creating in my work, a world that is not quite ours but is like it, with familiar sign posts, recognizable artefacts, and people, I suggest a story; everyone has a story. Am I exploring the existential definition of being human, the absurdity of existence? No. It has been suggested to me that my work is more to do with self-exploration, that I am looking at myself, and how I feel about living in a changing world. There may be some truth in that.

For artists and painters, it is their experience of life in the present which is reflected in their art. Artists very often draw on their feelings, emotions, nagging doubts or demons in order to create their art. This is true for me as much as anyone else. But in the end, I am just painting the things that give me the urge to create. Call it inspiration or whatever, it is intangible something that makes artists want to do what they want to do."