@LUKESTRATFORD

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  • life sun

    life sun

    life sun. Acrylic on canvas – 2014 Listen to the audio below on Soundcloud for the audio-art I made to go with this painting.////

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  • Lungz

    Lungz

    Lungz – Acrylic on canvas – 2013 To put it simply, I have dodgy lungs. They have collapsed 4 times in the last 4 years, and I have been in hospital so many times I have lost count. In my third year of University I was in hospital so much that I got a rail…

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  • losing ctrl

    losing ctrl

    Losing ctrl – Acrylic on canvas – 2012 This is one of my most credited paintings, and I think it’s because it represents a feeling a lot of us know so well. When you have suffered in the grips of anxiety for a long time, it’s hard to feel completely comfortable. You know you are…

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  • Advance

    Advance

    Advance – Acrylic on canvas – 2013. (I’m a bit annoyed I never got a better picture of this before it went.) This was a painting from a period of great change in my life. I was back at university and had decided to make some positive changes in my life. The purple represents the…

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  • Quartz

    Quartz

    Quartz – Acrylic on canvas, 2013 This painting is when I was experimenting with my own style and ‘brand’. It was during my green and triangle obsession. I became interested in balance and symmetry, and being able to control the art as much as possible.

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  • OH, FUCK

    OH, FUCK

    OH FUCK – Acrylic on canvas – 2012. This is one of those paintings that came from a dream state I had. It was during a period of constant anxiety for me, and when I first started working out how to visualise my thoughts and feelings into imagery.

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  • Broke

    Broke

    Broke – Acrylic on canvas, 2011. I painted this after seeing an exhibition in Bristol in 2011. It was my first piece of art in a long time, and it was kind of the start of an awakening I had when I realised how powerful art can be and how much it actually meant to…

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  • NO HATE

    NO HATE

    NO HATE – Acrylic on canvas 2008. This was a painting I did way back in 2008, weird 16 year old me.

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