For this painting, I used my iMac to record myself painting myself on the iPad. I’m interested in the multi layering of virtual distance created and recorded between the artist and his subject.

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".