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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.
These highlight the overseen and obscure areas of life, exploring tales from our past and its effect on the present.
At the core of my work is process: an active investigation into perception, memory, and the traces we leave behind.
Each piece becomes a living archive, gathering impressions, found imagery, and fragments of memory that are continuously reworked. Layers of colour, line, and surface build into dense visual fields that evolve over time, never fixed, always in motion.
Surfaces are excavated as much as they are constructed - built up, scraped back, sanded, peeled, and re-formed. What remains is not so much planned in advance but discovered through action, the accident, and intuition.
This cycle of making and unmaking drives the work forward, as material accumulates and disappears, with unexpected relationships beginning to surface. In this way, I work as a conduit for this unfolding process, where meaning is not declared but revealed slowly, physically, and insistently, through dialogues between hand, material, and time.
Adam R. Grose is a Somerset-based artist, educator, and facilitator originally from Cornwall, working across painting, printmaking, and process-led creative practice.
Associated with CICCIC Taunton, Go Create Taunton, Arts Hub Gallery, and Orchard Gallery Taunton, he leads courses in creative methodologies and printmaking alongside a wide range of workshops across the South West.
His practice is recognised locally for developing confidence, risk-taking, and personal visual language, prioritising process over fixed style. Rather than operating primarily through commercial gallery systems, his work is embedded in sustained engagement with the local arts ecology, supporting emerging and returning artists across Somerset, Devon, and Dorset.
Working across painting, drawing, printmaking, and mixed media, Grose’s approach is grounded in intuition, experimentation, and material inquiry. His workshops frequently attract practising artists seeking to extend and challenge their existing work.
The practice is deliberately process-led: built on experimentation, repetition, erasure, and risk. Works often remain open-ended—visibly unresolved, exploratory, and reflective of thinking in motion. Each piece functions as evidence of making as thinking, rather than the resolution of a predetermined image.
Rather than adhering to a fixed style or visual motif, the work shifts fluidly between abstraction, drawing, painting, and print. Inconsistency is not avoided but embraced as a structural principle of the practice.
Teaching and making are not separate activities but part of the same system. Workshop environments mirror the studio: spaces of uncertainty, play, and productive risk. Hierarchies between beginner and advanced practitioner are intentionally flattened in favour of shared inquiry and experimentation.
In this sense, Grose’s practice operates less like a fixed output and more like:
• a laboratory for material investigation
• a conversation in continuous development
• a catalyst for creative confidence and change
