About the Artist
Hi, I'm Dominic and I paint neon because it lights me up and calms my brain.
You can purchase my original paintings direct from my studio through the 'Available Works' link in the menu.
I also have a small selection of prints available. These are gorgeous high-resolution, archival quality, reproductions of my original neon paintings - each print captures the fine detail and intense glow of the original artwork that I poured every bit of my heart and attention into creating.
I hope you find a piece of art that speaks to you so that you absolutely must have it to light up your home.
If you have seen a painting or print on my social media that is not listed here, please get in touch via the Contact form and we can have a chat and make it yours.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dominic Bradnum (b. 1977) is a visual and audio artist, currently working in Worthing, UK. His visual language is focused on capturing the incandescent glow of neon and other gas-filled electric lighting through the medium of oil paint. He imagines enigmatic slogans, and snippets of prose and poetry: setting them within expressionistic everyday scenes; or rendering them as photo-realistic, eye-searing typography.
Dominic was the winner of Wells Art Contemporary 2013, and his resulting London debut solo show sold out. He has exhibited throughout the UK and in Europe, sharing gallery space with Sir Peter Blake, Damien Hirst, Bruce McLean and Jamie Hewlett. He currently has works in private collections in Geneva, Monaco, Beirut, London, Amsterdam, Dublin, Manchester, Glasgow and Brighton.
He also occasionally writes and records ‘Lo-Fi Symphonies’ and is a sometime member of the latent DIY electronic performance-art/noise-pop group Miss Pain.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My painting practice is primarily focussed on capturing the elusive, incandescent qualities of neon lighting. Working with oil paint, I build up layers and glazes, taking advantage of the slow drying qualities to blend the pigment on the canvas, creating subtle changes of tonal glow, of light and contrast. Through this finely developed technique, the texts and forms appear illuminated, taking on a shimmering optical quality, as they seem to flicker and light up the canvas.
Recent paintings have seen snippets of prose and poetry – enigmatic declarations evoking the post-modern and post-Covid human condition – placed as glowing neon interventions within expressionistic seascape panoramas, or emblazoned across scenes of brutalist urban decay.
Past works have explored brash pop-art slogans and populist aphorisms; or have referenced abstract and minimalist forms such as phosphorescent drips, meandering lines, geometric shapes and op-art patterns, all lit up in a meticulously painted neon glow.
EDUCATION
1996-99: BA (Hons) Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University
1995-96: BTEC Foundation Studies Art & Design, Northbrook College, Horsham
AWARDS
2013: 1st prize Wells Art Contemporary/The 45 Park Lane Art Prize
2011: 2nd prize Warwick Business School logo competition
SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS
2024: Zen Gallery (group show), Walthamstow, London
2024: Here+Now (group show), Oxmarket Gallery, Chichester
2024: DarkFest (group show), Newland Gallery, Worthing
2024: 1st Summer Exhibition, Crawley Library, Crawley
2024: Newhaven Open 2024 group show, Newhaven
2024: Worthing Festival group show, Newland Gallery, Worthing
2024: Mini Solo Show, Brighton Rocks
2023: Worthing Open23, Worthing Museum
2023: Open House (group show), Co-Exist Spaces, Worthing
2023: Togetherness (group show), D31 gallery, Doncaster
2019: Selected: new work (group show), Bearspace, London
2019: Sussex Art Fair, Brighton with Bearspace Art
2019: Windsor Art Fair with Bearspace Art
2019: Affordable Art Fair, London with Bearspace Art
2018: Manchester Art Fair with Bearspace Art
2018: In memoriam to the concrete and steel fortress of the once-proud Bed King, Control Gallery, Worthing
2018: Neon Paintings & Print Editions (solo show), Green Rooms, Wood Green, London
2017: WAC Rewind (prize winners exhibition), Bishop’s Palace, Wells
2017: Bearspace presents No Place (group show), ROSL Arts, St James, London
2017: Messenger (group show), Bearspace, SE London
2016: East Sussex Open 2016, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
2016: Salon des Refusés, SPACE, Hackney, East London
2016: Dominic Bradnum: NEON - Solo Show, Garbo’s Gallery, Southsea
2015: WAC winners + 45 Park Lane Artists (group show), 45 Park Lane, London
2014: Wells Art Contemporary 2014, City of Wells Museum, Somerset
2014: Dominic Bradnum, WAC 2013 winner (solo exhibition), 45 Park Lane, London
2014: Pink Pop (group show), Red Hand Gallery, London
2013: Wells Art Contemporary 2013, City of Wells Museum, Somerset
2012: Pop, Print & Stitch (group show), Marburae Gallery, Macclesfield
2011: Exhibition No.1: Paint (group show), Blankspace, Manchester
2011: Work/Work – A Group Research Exhibition, Lo & Behold Gallery, E. London
2010: I Think Of You and I Smile (solo exhibition), Blanch House, Brighton
2010: Artside 2010 - Wish You Were Here, Southend-on-Sea
2008: Red Cross Summer Exhibition, Nutshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
2007: Hurray! Yes! Wow! (group show), The Arthouse Gallery, Brighton