Mixed Media
Original Artwork "Head Above Water" by Jon Measures
8" x 8" x 1.5"
Jon Measures grew up in England earning a BA honors degree in Fine Art from Falmouth School of Art. After many years making a living as a graphic designer and Illustrator he decided to focus on his fine art career.
In the past couple of years, Jon has developed his own approach to making mixed media artwork that often combine multiple views of Los Angeles and other urban areas, slicing and dicing bits of the city’s rich fabric together. The images are digitally edited photographs, printed then made into collages that are then further worked as paintings. Paint is used to stylize or emphasize aspects of the photographic materials, to add texture, layering and color. The layering is an important aspect to the work both in the computer and on the physical artwork. This process is a hybrid between painting, photography, digital art and collage and echoes the layering of history that takes place in cities.
