iPad painting using the Procreate application. Ive been working directly from a solo-motion video taken using the iPhone. The recording gives me the ability to reflect more slowly on this sixty second period of time. I can look back again and again, freeze a frame or paint from a moving element, selecting the parts I find interesting. It’s a kind of meditation on what I see and feel.’
– 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".