Ricky Byrne 'Lost Without You' Prints Available

Artist: Ricky Byrne
Title: Lost Without You (Blue+Navy Blue)
Medium: Hand Embellished 2 Color Prints
Size: 30 x 30 cm Each
Edition: 10 Each
Price: £95 Each

 

*also available in red+fluoro and green+pale green colors

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Ricky Byrne was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1983 and grew up between the Atlantic surf and the flat topped silhouette of Table Mountain. That coastal light and urban edge still feed the abstract cityscapes and seascapes he now paints from his studio in Woodstock, a district where Victorian warehouses rub shoulders with street art and weekend food markets. Byrne trained as a graphic designer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, a discipline that taught him to reduce complex scenes to essential shapes and bold colour relationships, skills he now applies to fine art with oil, acrylic and aerosol on canvas, wood and reclaimed billboard paper.

His process begins with photographs taken during dawn walks along the promenade or twilight drives through the city bowl. Back in the studio he distils these images into interlocking planes of ultramarine, cadmium orange, titanium white and raw umber, allowing drips and spray mist to remain as evidence of speed and movement. Horizon lines tilt, shadows slide across facades and waves crest in simplified curves that suggest sound and spray without describing every ripple. The result is a body of work that feels simultaneously familiar and dreamlike, a memory of a place rather than a map of it.

Exhibitions at the Lovell Gallery in Cape Town, group shows in Johannesburg and art fairs along the Garden Route have met strong sales, while international collectors visiting the city often leave with rolled canvases tucked under their arms. Despite growing demand, Byrne continues to surf at sunrise, sketch on restaurant napkins and donate prints to local charity auctions, believing that creativity should remain as fluid as the tides that shape his hometown.

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