Artist's Statement
"Graham's response to landscape is contemplative. Like an elaborate game of chess, works evolve through time. Creation becomes a challenge as every mark is considered as the aesthetic process unravels towards sublime resolution. Graham's preoccupations are undoubtedly formal, but his technique relies on more than simply a conscious arrangement of shape and colour. Graham aims to intuitively distil the essence of his visual experience in a much more unlimited way. Landscape provides the ideal motif; unrestricted by figures or buildings, an exploration is permitted which ultimately pervades pure creation."

Sally-Ann Schilling
MA History of Art
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Former Art Historian and Lecturer
Tate Modern, London

"Your paintings bear scrutiny against everything you told me about your method and approach (so often people talk a good game and their work doesn't resemble its' description). They are singular and beautiful."

Trevor Flynn MAFA Goldsmiths
Director  www.drawingatwork.co.uk

"All my work is created through an open process of contemplation." Graham Swain

Graham read Architecture at the University of Portsmouth. As well as his architectural background his significant influences include his experiences as treble soloist at St. Georges College, Weybridge, singing in the major cathedrals in France, Holland and Belgium, including Rheims, Chartres, Laon, Notre Dame Paris and the Palace of Fontainbleau

Graham has worked as a professional painter since his early twenties

Graham is married to Emily from an acting family, The Royal Shakespeare Company

His green eyes reflect his Irish blood

Graham Swain
Wild hellebore wood, Austria

Winner of the BBC Radio 4 TODAY programme’s Peace Cartoon idea. Graham was interviewed for BBC TV South Today news and The Tablet. The winning cartoon can be viewed online on the TODAY website or via Google

Exhibitions Include
Beau Monde, Soho, London. Solo exhibition

Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, The Mall Galleries
London. Group exhibition

The Sanctuary Café and Gallery, Brighton, East Sussex
Solo exhibition

Farnborough Air Show, Surrey
Private Client: B.T.R in Aerospace. Solo exhibition

Chichester Open Exhibition, West Sussex
Group exhibition

The New Contemporary Gallery, Ebury St., London
Group exhibition

Royal Institute of Painters in Oil
The Mall Galleries, London. Group exhibition

Mountbatten Gallery, Portsmouth, Hampshire
Solo exhibition

Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth, Hampshire
Charity launch. Group exhibition

Creative Focus Conference
Portsmouth University Business Centre

Bashimi Art House Gallery Salzburg, Austria
Solo exhibition of watercolours
T: 0043 650 424 42 43
Bashimi website

Public Collections
Unilever plc, Unilever House, Blackfriars, London

Publications
RISK, International financial magazine (front cover)

Represented by
Arts Council England, Axisweb and Saatchi Online

Artist's Blog
artswain.wordpress.com

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What to do next...

To purchase an original picture please contact Graham.

E: art@artswain.com
T: 07977925586 UK  ++447977925586 International

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