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Abstract Explosionism Mar 05, 2009 at 12:08
Manchester based James Roper's paintings, illustrations and drawings are completely off the chain. He has such and amazing grasp of motion, colour and light and his versatility in technique is equally as inspirational as it is intimidating. Some of his pieces share a very strong resemblance to artist Zach Johnsen and as both have had an involvement with clothing label Tank Theory there's been some obvious cross pollination there. There's also some parallels that can be drawn between his pencil work and that of Australia's Jonathan Zawada, but in saying that his explosive colour paintings are fantastically fresh and original. I'm a massive fan.

Anyway, check some samples of his pieces to the right of this post and for more information about James and his work visit jroper.co.uk


Posted By: Luke Lucas
Tags: ArtIllustrationPainting


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True New Lounger
These are amazing
False Respect
My brain exploded.
True Respect
Fantastic works, crazy illustrator skills.
True Advanced Member
WHOA! First thing that jumps to mind is Zawada... I have a drawing of his in my house.. so nice! But this guy is on a different trip with the colours... really good work... the colour stuff is amazing!!!
False Respect
KO, Lucky we now know what it would look like! these are mind blowingly amazing!
False Advanced Member
trip out. mad hand skills. Do you know what kind of markers or water colours he uses?
False Respect
Thats a good question Miro.
False Advanced Member
Fuck I wish I could draw. AMAZING.
True New Lounger
amazing, you could actually make the traffic offenders program enjoyable (and that's no mean feat)
False Senior Member
the bikini chicks with exploding colours looks rad!
True New Lounger
I'll have to look at that work in its detail later!! Like the stretching woman on the far right, sexy frills!! And a stretch I will be able to do myself a while down the track...could do it Kylie style on the floor like I did when posing for a shoot which had a series of me and other women featured in our own rights and singularly on the Saatchi website. That's gone now - the artists page, he had retired. Get to know me and I might send you one of the pics!! Ha! blessed be
False Respect
Gorgeous work, I love the grey objects contrasting with all the colour erupting from them. Priiiiiitttyyy - Jake OXOXO
True Senior Member
The ones in colour look completely different to the black and white. Colour makes it go WHOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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