“I am not a camera, I am an artist.”

James Bemis is an Expressionist painter and his landscapes reflect his spiritual conversation with nature.

He has lived on the Isle of Wight for the past 20 years where he paints en plein-air with a “lyrical urgency” and when he is painting he feels that it is like “chaos and calmness coming together in balance.”

A visionary artist, he feels the need to paint beyond what he sees. Why paint the surface of nature, he asks, when you can also paint underneath, around and through Nature’s spirit?

He works in oils and walks for miles in all weather to be captured by nature and the elements.  “I love to feel the un-landscape of the landscape,” he says.

James has exhibited and sold at the Royal Academy. He has his work with galleries in the UK and in many collections worldwide.