Ann-Marie James (born 1981)[1] is a contemporary artist living and working in London.
[3] Traces of the original image are sometimes visible through the accumulation of applied layers, in different techniques that include laser etching, pastiche of manga-style penmanship, and traditional painterly brushstrokes.
A reviewer said her paintings were executed with “great technical skill… cleverly achieving a kind of over-heated Baroque-Gothic-Manga-biomorphic collision”.
[4] He continues to explore how James deconstructs images from art-historical heritage, taking them apart until we are no longer able to recognise them, or discern them from one another, dissolving their semantic and cultural value.
[5][6] Ann-Marie James's work has been shown internationally, in both solo and group exhibitions.