Demi Bromfield (b.1996) is a British contemporary artist living and working in London, UK. Key themes explored in her practice are illusion, haptic visuality and hybridity to push the limits of the paint medium. 

 

Bromfield reflects on the painting discourse and is drawn to contrasting ideas such as control, chance and spontaneity and opposing movements such as realism and abstraction. The work she creates are hybrids and often allude to multiple art forms such as sculpture, drawing, photography, digital art and performance art but remain true to painting. Perspective and the act of viewing is considered and automatic references are intruded and redirected back to the nuances of the surface qualities, materiality of paint, time and process.

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Marks are illusive, intricate and considered yet gestural and impulsive. She uses depth to allude viewers, placing their common reality and the surface qualities into question. Manipulating the notion of haptic visuality, she encourages the viewer to become an embodied spectator, using their eyes as an organ of touch to retrace her bodily marks orchestrated amongst the painted surface. In turn, the performative act of painting itself is experienced.

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Her practice draws reference to art history and the masters in abstraction such as Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. The paintings emit a magnetic force pulled by the traditional notions of painting and pushed by the emerging digital age and an investigation into the limits of the paint medium.