Oliver Wilson

Oliver Wilson is first and foremost a painter and secondly a photographer, he uses his photographic images as a sketch pad for what he will then communicate onto the canvas.  His chosen natural element is water which embraces and surrounds the human figures along with his use of light and darkness creating distortion, abstraction and refraction.Oliver was born in Coventry in 1974 and was educated at Stowe. He studied at Newcastle University from 1993 – 97, where he graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art.  He has also won awards including being awarded gold for best artist at Art London, Chelsea 2004.