JBoy 'Hollow' (Gold) Painting Available

Artist: JBoy
Title: Hollow (Gold)
Medium: HPM Canvas
Size: 50 x 50 cm
Edition: 10
Price: £195

 

JBoy is the working alias of a London-based visual artist who prefers to keep his real name private. Born and raised in the city, he describes himself as “fairly (un)known” and treats art as a way to calm a restless, hyperactive mind. Rather than aligning with one signature style, he follows whatever feels right for the picture, moving between charcoal, pencil and paint, and letting the idea not the polish be the artwork.

Most of his output is black and white, a choice he finds “fairly slick,” with a single accent colour dropped in to guide the eye and amplify the message. This stripped-back palette heightens the dry, observational humour that runs through his pieces: visual commentaries on everything from social absurdities to personal pet peeves, delivered with a light, tongue-in-cheek twist.

Influences range from Gary Larson’s offbeat cartoons to the precise, surreal illustrations of Guy Billout, and he credits an eccentric early education technical drawing lessons from Timmy Mallett’s uncle for sparking his creative confidence. Although formally trained, JBoy insists he only truly focuses “when my mind clicks into the zone,” producing work in intense bursts and discarding anything that doesn’t feel 100 percent right.

Exhibiting through Signature Fine Art and releasing small print runs that sell out quickly, he maintains anonymity simply because he likes it that way, proving that in an age of constant self-promotion, a low profile can still command high attention.