Continuing to explore painting from distant moving images, I am pushing myself to loosen up the mark-making so that there is less distinction between the moving and static elements that I am recording. The slo-motion iPhone video that my good friend Diarmuid sent me, had a wonderful ephemeral quality to it. And painting directly from this silent moving image, inevitably brought up many memories. I wanted to paint that intensity. His message was all the more powerful without words. Sometimes a look can say it all.’
– Adam James Butcher

WORDS BY JAMES BUTCHER

"I’ve started working on a new series for the Gazelli Art House digital residency. I’m using the Procreate application with a slightly modified brush setting. I am painting from observation and directly from slo-mo iPhone recordings of the sitter which I find fascinating. This painting is of Eduardo Stein, a great local oil painter, friend and mentor. Painting from a video of a moving subject is closer to the real life experience and has pushed me to be more inventive. The video acts as an aide-memoire of the experience".