Arnet Addis - Biography

Arnet Addis has never formally studied art but has a rigorous intellectual appreciation of many forms of art and photorealism in particular. An academic graduate of Cambridge University, Arnet's paintings began as photorealistic representations of the  sunsets and sunrises from his window. From this sound basis he began a series of paintings using the colours of the negative rather than the positive image, giving a new and different perspective to photorealism.

In order the demonstrate the accuracy of the negatively coloured painting the original work on canvas is scanned and a single, unique photographic print of the painting is produced having been digitally converted to the more normal positive colours. This is mounted on aluminium so that the two panels can be hung side by side. It is only then that the precise and meticulously accurate nature of his work can be fully appreciated.

These Positive/Negative works attempt to blur the distinctions between canvas, painting and digital imagery. When the works are displayed together it becomes difficult to separate the 'original' from the 'reproduction', the 'painted' from the 'printed' and the 'positive' from the 'negative'.