Keith Maiden

Keith's first step is to form ideas using hand-drawn scribbles, before progressing to slightly more detailed sketches. With a rough idea in his head or on paper, he develops it as a storyboard, similarly to a cartoonist. Once the story works with the sketch, he starts to paint.

The piece is created in white acrylic paint with a brush and palette knives. After this has dried, he adds up to eight layers of graphite and acrylic before finally adding oil and soft pastel. 

He adds: "A lot of my work is storytelling. It sometimes takes longer to create the story of a painting than to paint the piece itself. It’s a difficult process that takes time, research and endless scribbles and sketches to bring everything together."