About
a b o u t g a r y
I think it is fair to say that I love painting and creating new and exciting ideas. I’ve been interested in creating art for as long as I can remember, being fascinated initially by the way light, shadow, colour, depth and perspective behave. I find such emotional engagement in these and how they can affect a scene.
I’ve been a professional artist in one form or another for over 20 years now, starting at 17, now working mostly as a Conceptual Artist and Art Director - but it was not until about a decade ago that I decided to diversify my passion for painting in a direction more personal to me. I started doodling space and sci-fi images while having a little down time between projects, being fascinated with what might be “out there” it made it easy for me to paint this stuff up. This lead to my first web galley (which still online and not updated at www.spaceart.org ), which ironically over a couple of years came full circle and my personal art found a whole new list of clients and friends.
I now balance my time between any full time or contract commitments and my personal art. Recently I have finished my first book:
covering some of the techniques I employ while painting digitally and I am looking forward to writing the sequel very soon. Along with my Art Direction and conceptual work I am still very driven to keep painting new and interesting visualisations and I still feel very fortunate that my passion for painting has found me a totally new direction as an artist.
w o r k t a k e n o n
Concept Art • Art Direction •
Matte Painting • Illustration • Licensing
I work internally and externally for a number of Book Publishers, Games Development studios, corporate and private clients, working in various roles, in the last 7 years mostly a concept artist, Illustration and Art Director.
