Artist Statement
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My art practice investigates the joy of painting, printmaking and sculpture through portraiture or landscape, via realism or abstraction, for you to explore and investigate at your leisure.
These works highlight the overseen and obscure areas of life, exploring tales from our past and its effect on the present.
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Central to my work is an engagement with process - transforming and observing human and environmental traces that explore perception, memory, and the lived experience. The work functions simultaneously as archive and as emergent potential, capturing plein-air glimpses, memory, and gathering a diverse array of images that serve as a foundation, where layers of colour and line intertwine, forming a visual tapestry that evolves over time.
My approach to painting and printmaking, through an archaeological lens, builds these layers of colour, form and marks, which are subsequently sanded, peeled, and scraped back, following intuition.
This process of construction, removal and re-construction are reworked until unforeseen relationships begin to appear, with the artist as conduit to an evolving artwork of intuition and material: meaning is not imposed, but revealed over time.
Adam R. Grose MA PGCE
Artist, Writer, Tutor
Adam R. Grose is a Somerset-based artist, educator, and facilitator, from Cornwall, for his work in painting, printmaking, and process-led creative practices. Associated with @ciccictaunton, @gocreatetaunton, @artshubgallery, and the @orchardgallerytaunton, he leads Creative Methodologies and Printmaking courses and various art workshops for the above and other organisations.
Recognised locally as an artist-teacher developing confidence, process, and personal visual language, rather than fixed styles, his reputation is built less on commercial galleries and more on impact and influence within the local art community. He plays a key role in supporting emerging and returning artists in Somerset, Devon, and Dorset.
Media: painting, drawing, printmaking, and mixed media with an emphasis on intuition and experimentation, breaking creative blocks, and process over product.
His workshops often attract artists already practising who want to push their work forward.
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Work is process-led: experimentation, repetition, erasure, risk
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Paintings and drawings often feel open-ended, exploratory, sometimes unresolved
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The artwork is evidence of thinking in action
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Does not lock into a single style or motif
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Shifts between abstraction, drawing, painting, and mixed media
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Allows inconsistency as part of the practice
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Teaching is not separate from making — it’s part of the artwork’s ecology
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Workshops mirror his studio methods: uncertainty, play, risk
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Actively flattens hierarchies between beginner and professional
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Emphasises shared inquiry rather than authority
Adam Grose’s practice is closer to:
• a laboratory than a showroom
• a conversation rather than a statement
• a catalyst rather than a monument
