Kevin Bramich, a Fine Arts graduate of the University of Tasmania
School of Art, is a visual artist who is currently combining acrylic
painting, photography and printmaking techniques to create textural
photographs and textured abstract canvases. He lives and works on the
central north coast of Tasmania, Australia.
In his recent work, he has been using a simple mono printing
technique of applying paint to canvas using different types of hard and
soft plastics such as shopping bags and wrapping searching for ways
to create a variety of textures. Through this process of experimentation
he has discovered this not only creates the textures he wants on his
canvases, but it also leaves the imprinted textures on the pieces of
plastic. Observing these, he saw how visually stimulating they were,
and as a result, started photographing the plastic itself to create an
array of textural photographs. Here, you could say, ‘a happy accident’.
He says, ‘this has opened up a myriad of possibilities’ that he is
beginning to pursue at the moment. To begin this journey of
discovery, some important people in his life are at the core of a series
of portraits he is now producing. In these works, he is designing and
overlaying the painted plastics onto the original portraits to re-create
stimulating new images.