Jason Brooks

One of Britain’s foremost photorealist painters, the work of Jason Brooks challenges notions of perception, depiction and visual illusion through exhaustive detail and innovative process. His vivid portraits of cultural icons, models, and friends along with his abstraction and figurative work, are all created through a painstaking process using airbrush and acrylic paint. Often working from his own photographs, Brooks’ methods often take months, building up the appearance of texture through minute detail. In his more recent works, Brooks uses his acrylic and airbrush technique airbrush to create a visual illusion, crafting the appearance of thick brushstrokes. Says Brooks of his tedious and mesmerizing process, “I’m always aware of the bigger picture as you’re trying to orchestrate all the smaller components—whether that be harmony or discord.”

Brooks has had a number of solo exhibitions since 1998 including Marlborough Contemporary, London, National Portrait Gallery, London, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, Max Wigram Gallery, London, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus, Harewood, Leeds, UK, and Entwistle, London, UK.