John Duffin

Primrose Hill - London, London Art, Black and White Cityscape Art, Monochrome

2023

This limited edition etching is a view of London looking down from Parliament Hill at dusk on an early autumn evening. I have loved this view ever since i moved to London as a studen...

John Duffin is a painter and printmaker whose work is based on the modern environments of cities and towns, creating dynamic, cinematic images of contemporary urban life. His unique images of architecture, lighting and figures have been greatly praised and awarded, recently receiving The Most Outstanding Print Award from Sir peter Blake, he has a distinctive artistic voice and has much to say in his work about contemporary life in all of it’s manifestations. His work is in the tradition of LS Lowry in Britain and Edward Hopper in America and like these artists he creates unique views of contemporary urban life, a combination of his ability as a draughtsman, his imagination and his personal use of perspective and colour. He makes drawings and watercolours in front of his chosen subject and takes these sketches back to his London studio where he creates from them his own imaginative interpretation of the site, recreating the place anew via his own imagination. His work is redolent with influences from cinema, graphic novels and the history of figurative painting, but from this comes a vision that is his alone. London Panorama...

Panoramic Black & White Painting of Westminster from Victoria Embankment, City of London. A unique original from leading British Cityscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Art measures 2...

Black & White Painting of Figures at Westminster Bridge in London - a unique original from leading British Urban Landscape & Cityscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Art measures 36 x 2...