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“Shadows”, a painting by James Earley which focuses on the homeless issue in New York has been shortlisted for the prestigious Art Gemini Prize 2018. The exhibition will take place at the Menier Gallery London between the 25th -29th September.

James Earley is proud to be featured in the prestigious Internationale Kunst Heute 2018. This is a book that features the ‘Most Relevant Artists in the World Today”

We are proud to announce that James Earley has been featured on the front cover of Artists on Art Magazine. The May 2018 issue also includes an article as to why James Earley paints the Homeless.

We are proud to announce that James Earley has featured in the April edition of “Artists Tell Their Story” by Brenda Smoake. https://artiststelltheirstories.blogspot.fr/2018/04/james-earley-painter-of-homeless-tells.html

The Reason Behind the Painting It was August 2017 when I visited my home town of Southampton. It was a hot and sunny day and the streets of the city centre were full of shoppers. I noticed what appeared to be a pile of rags, a rag doll perhaps lying on the ground invisible to

The Making of Violet and Blue Silence The two figures are a homeless couple living on the streets of New York. When painting this image the most important thing was to feel the emotional connection between the couple. These emotions are emotions that impact like a hammer. I wanted to create a background which would

The girl lives on the streets of New York, she is the same girl as in my painting Mary but I wanted this painting to be completely different to Mary. The key to the picture and the story is the silence, solitude and the precious memories of child hood emerging in the tragic plight of

I met Joe Crow in Winchester, England in 2017 and got to know him. I had met so many homeless people who had had enough, who really wanted to escape this world, yet Joe Crow was different. He had encountered so many problems, so many traumas yet he kept going, he looked forward he did

Mary is a painting of a homeless girl from New York. I really wanted to paint this as there was so much going on in this scene. So many emotions hit you when you see it. I normally work on sketches and photos of homeless people that I meet, I try to get to know

James Earley has been invited to show his recent painting “Clearance” at the Galeria Independiente Tabacalera in Madrid from 22/9/2017-24/9/2017. The exhibiton will showcase the work of international artists who incorporate social issues in their work.

The aim of this blog is to give you some idea as to why I choose a particular subject, how I ultimately produce the painting and the message that I want to get across in my art. Toulouse is the nearest city to where I live in the south of France so it is the

As part of my series of paintings of the homeless I have started a portrait of a man that I met in Toulouse in the south of France. I was particularly struct by the sadness of this man and I hope to show emotion in the work. As always I start with a red back

After a period of 3 months the detail has all been added

This is my second post in relation to my current painting of river jousting at Sete. I have now completed the rough picture and I will now work on detail

This is my first ever landscape. It is a painting of Sete in southern France where there is a tradition to water joust. I aim to regularly post images of how i build the picture from start to finish