James Owens

James Owens' work delicately balances figuration and abstraction, delving into repetition while featuring an experimental style that incorporates a rich variety of brush strokes and mark-making techniques. Through his ethereal works, Owens presents outdoor settings teeming with flora and fauna, as well as patchwork-like backgrounds that pervade his artworks, inviting viewers to explore deep interior worlds, all the while keeping the ultimate outcome shrouded in mystery. In his works, Owens seamlessly blends memory, heritage, contemporary culture, and imagination, weaving entirely new narratives that flourish in moments of ambiguity. Viewers are introduced to a world of outsiders infatuated with the unknown, eager to believe in something more. Owens conjures imagined landscapes and figures deeply engaged in the acts of searching and experiencing, achieved through a wide range of painting techniques, allowing abstracted elements to fade and form within the canvas.