The Artist

I am Max Campbell, a British-Caribbean artist born in a small town outside London.

Since I had been young I have always had a certain affinity to creativity and art in whatever form it took in the early stages of my life whether thats origami, lego, playing with hot wheels in my imagination and mainly channeling into the focused medium of painting, I always found a way to distract and have something in my hands to work on or make. Much like my position in life being of dual heritage, a lot of what made me myself, differed from the environment I grew up in, my imagination and thirst for physical manifestation of emotions lead me to learn the art of drawing and sketching, initially digitally through tutorials and books toward physical larger painting I do now.

With my pieces I aim to evoke a relation or emotion within the viewer of my works in a way that's difficult to put into words, the concept that what connects us and our emotions is not our interests or our indifferences but rather the fleeting grip onto a tangible feeling possessed, the trigger of a subtle memory/ abstract feeling, alike catching a breeze of a scent you had long forgotten but can’t pinpoint what unto. This rooted purpose I believe derives from the experiences and perspectives I have picked up throughout life, being well travelled, meeting a wide variety of people through my education but also in work, in myself I see a lot of my parents reawakened, i believe every person yearns subconsciously to be creative, the nature of our minds gravitates to challenge our mind in ways we cannot understand, the question I always ask myself and others is what would you create if money didn't matter, with my art and skills in the vibrancy of my pallet along with the surreal portraits, with graffiti elements I tell stories of unspoken words and emotions, when i ask you what you see in my art, I dont want either description to be the same, but be personal, an interpretation, a feeling, I want my art to be seen and remembered, I want people to understand that art is not in history, and cannot be destroyed but can alleviate your conscious and emotion, being in the presence of such art reminds oneself of who they are, in my art I see myself, in my art you see yourself.

Art should never be constrained to a specific audience, my art is traditional with non traditional concepts, let your preconceptions free and observe as if seeing art as an equal, as one in the same as others, that is what I ask.