Artist Statement
Adam Grose’s practice investigates fragility creating a dialogue between the past and present, intuition, temporality, and historical presences across painting, sculpture, and printmaking.
Central to his work is an engagement with process - transforming and observing human and environmental traces that explore perception, memory, and the lived experience. His work functions simultaneously as archive and as emergent potential, capturing expressive moments via plein-air glimpses and memory, 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. His approach to painting and printmaking, through an archaeological lens, builds layers of colour, form and marks that are subsequently sanded, peeled, and scraped back, seeking the hidden within.
This iterative process of construction, removal and re-construction are reworked until unforeseen relationships begin to appear, with the artist operating as conduit to an evolving dialogue between his intuition and the material: meaning is not imposed, but gradually revealed over time.
Grose embraces the concept of entropy to breathe new life into the work, fostering fresh interactions and interventions. The multi-layered artwork bears their history: each layer interacting to create images that echo the past moment in the present. This exploration expands Grose’s artistry, leading to experiments with new forms of print and painting, seeking the harmonious balance between form and space, conveying poetic lyricisms.
Adam R. Grose is a Somerset-based contemporary artist, educator, and facilitator, known particularly for his work in painting, printmaking, and process-led creative practices. Associated with @ciccictaunton, @gocreatetaunton, @artshubgallery, and the @orchardgallerytaunton, he has led Creative Methodologies and Printmaking courses and art workshops.
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
Contact
Adam is always looking for new and exciting opportunities.
Please contact via the links on the right.
07747 846790
