Member since Saturday 11th Jul, 2020
My name is Mike Juniper, I live in Chelmsford, Essex and have a passion for art and photography.
Portraiture has been my main focus since art lessons in school. I remember at 14, capturing a likeness of a classmate in charcoal one afternoon and something clicking internally to suggest, 'actually, I quite like this.'
I have concentrated on figurative art since then and am self taught. Comic & Graphic Novel Illustration was a focus in the following years but recently I have reacquainted myself with my hog hair bristle brushes and returned to outright portraiture and oil painting.
I’ve been fortunate enough to win some Portrait Painting competitions, exhibit locally in Essex and London and be considered for the Artist & Illustrators Magazine ‘Artist of the Year 2019’.