Douglas Farthing

Douglas Farthing was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk and enlisted into the British Army Parachute Regiment in 1984, retiring in 2013. Douglas had no formal art training. He documented his experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan in sketchbooks and developed them into larger works in the studio. These earlier works have shaped the artist he is today observing the balance of beauty and tension in life. In 2015 he attended the drawing year at the Royal Drawing School. This has had a major influence on how Douglas works today.

Douglas has held several successful exhibitions and a selection of his work resides in the National Army Museum and within various military messes and private collections.

Painting is an expression of space-time experience and feeling. Layered with narrative worked and reworked finished when the means employed have disappeared in the end attained. I enjoy the rhythm of the picture, balance of plan patterns or design. The subject not so important only expressed. Douglas Farthing