INFINITYBLUES

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My name is Benjamin Hand, but I like to go by the pen name Infinityblues.

I have always been greatly inspired by music and literature, and I have always liked things which are weird, strange or not ‘normal’ in some way.

I am fascinated by dreams and the subconscious, and this often influences my art in many ways.

Ever since I was a young boy, I have loved painting and drawing and I am self-taught, so my work is not so polished but very raw, which is one quality I enjoy in my art or even in music.

I have attempted to detail my dreams in my paintings and often, an image will come to me fully formed and I just have to bring it into reality, so to speak.

‘A whole child ago’

Is inspired by the Biffy Clyro song of the same name.

The lyric, ‘with an eyeball melting out of the corner of my mouth’, always stuck with me and one day, struggling for an idea on what to paint, this song just happened to play next on my playlist, and Voila!

Inspiration struck.

‘Pelagea’

Is one of my favourite paintings I have ever done, such a joy to paint. When you do something you really enjoy and are so engrossed in it, it really takes you away. I understand now what the ‘flow state’ is.

I didn’t want to paint a straight portrait, and it took a few tries to get a colour scheme that satisfied me but the blue on the red background really does it for me.

Ironically, without intending to, she turned out looking a lot like a girl who I had a crush on in high school, which I think enamours her to me even more.

‘Impression of a story unfurling’

Is an attempt to collect different elements of a dream I had into one piece.

Many of my dreams are a mixture of feelings and dialogue and narrative, skipping from scene to scene, it’s vivid but hazy and they meld into each other, and that is what I was trying to capture in this piece.

All works are acrylic on canvas, all were their own individual journeys.

Stay weird.

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