Gareth Bunting

Gareth Bunting is an artist and keen traveller. His work is a kind of visual diary which documents his travels and the nature of spaces, places and borders in the form of drawing. His works are often large scale, vast and surreal landscapes which map out places and experiences.

He sees the landscape as a comic strip or a story board, which can be used to tell the tales of the people and objects existing within it. With an interest in fractal patterns, his work crosses the boundaries between drawing and painting and questions the relationships between the man-made and the organic, demonstrating that we are all ourselves connected and part of nature.

He plays with scale and perspective, and leads the eye of the viewer along lines and winding paths and roads, through impossible landscapes containing repeating and evolving imagery. Thus forming a narrative in one static image. He is interested in questioning his own identity as a western male artist abroad, and investigates culural differences and similarities, as well as personal, political and environmental issues. He works from memory and imagination as well as from life, mixing together the real and the unreal to portray his own world based heavily on real places, with a fantastical twist, illustrating how a place exists in ones mind after a journey.