Mike Juggins

Painting

The paint is the narrative...

Painting is my high place. Spontaneity and serendipity are welcome guests. I channel gesture, colour and emotion in a free state

of mind, often taking cues from the music I listen to.

I love the visual, physical, emotional and intellectual rewards that painting gives me. For me painting is all about finding the inventor within; always endeavouring to

find a new way forward with the paint.

I hope that by learning from the past and always pushing forward, my work might reach a place that is yet uncharted.

Mike Juggins - Visual Jazz

"The apparently straight forward representation of the visible world is a facade for what lies behind it - intricate patterns shadows which dissolve into cubic forms then simply melt into the background.

The repeated images - a glimpse of a surreal world hiding behind Matisse vases, Picasso doves and Mikes' archways.

The figurative, the cubic and the the abstract, all jostle in his canvasses for prominence. I am fascinated by the result."

Danuta Bird - Art Critic

"The Mother" is the name of the painting the drawing of me is looking at. It was the first time I had worked in oils, way back in 1995.

It became my starting point when I picked up the brush again seriously in 2004. The collection "Visual Jazz" took on a life of its own but as you can see the birds, bottles and flowers in this painting had an influence.

The work below is not available to buy.