About

Russell is a layerist.  His visual language moves through layered compositions, unpacking emotional and psychological folds of colour and shape. 

All of his pieces start digitally, where the infinite playground of the computer provides exploration with complex geometries, working on the microcosm vs macrocosm of shapes, sometimes through a careful process, other times via action process. A multiplicity of manipulations achieve complex images, which entice the viewer into their layers as a final 3D piece.

Russell uses material which can convey the sense of depth he envisions for the composition.  Currently this is UV print on transparent medium, but he is also experimenting with traditional paint and 3D printing. Russell is also an electronic musician. ‘My art has a certain sound and my music has a certain shape’. These cross-artform investigations have led Russell to make experimental compositions where animation and music complement each other. 

Russell’s work tackles social or environmental themes in an abstract way. He has been influenced by his childhood, learning from his father, a professor and lecturer of geology, and went on to delve into speculative science fiction, biology and chemistry, comics and modern culture. 

“I make art as a response to what is going on in the world, utilising any influences I have absorbed and channeling them into art that, while abstract, contains meaning. None of what I do is non-representational”