I fell in love with Adam’s paintings when I recently visited Paradise Works open studios in Manchester. His work seems to inhabit an in-between world of deep nature and urban states - the paint layered in such a way as to evoke not only the quiet but mighty life of lichens (which he is investigating and exploring) but also the graffitied walls of an overrun city, covered in layer upon layer of torn posters or the coarse surface of cheap concrete.
I asked Adam if he would sit for a portrait and he kindly obliged. I loved capturing the textures of paint and material, and the confusion of muted and vibrant greens, as well as Adam of course in his very natural habitat.
