Jonathan Wateridge is an English artist of 39 years old, born in Zambia. He paints hyper-realistic large-scale paintings ( 2 X 4 meters for his last series) in the tradition of the great classical masters such as Velazquez. To realize his paintings, Wateridge enters the skin of a movie director, sets scenes with models and actors of which he'll take more than 2000 photographs, this previous work preparation can last about a year or so. He then builds a story from these pictures, taking among them what he needs, as for a look, a gesture, a play of light, etc. Apart from the classical painters, his main inspiration comes from the movie scene, and particularly from David Lynch's work of art. He now lives and works in London, and is represented by the Saatchi Gallery. He is now exhibited in the Palazzo Grassi in Venice until December 2011, and in London at 2 Omega Place, within the exhibition All Visual Arts starting the 12th of October 2011. [http://do-wild-thing.blogspot.nl/2011/08/jonathan-wateridge-when-painting-meets.html] Jonathan Wateridge attended the Glasgow School of Art in the early 1990s before rejecting painting for almost 15 years. Since his return to the medium, his work has been collected by Francois Pinault, Charles Saatchi, the Olbricht Foundation and Benedict Taschen amongst others; and can be found in the Anita Zabludowicz Collection. He has exhibited in critically acclaimed shows such as The Saatchi Gallery’s Newspeak: British Art Now, an exhibition showcasing the next generation of British artists, and The World Belongs to You at the Francois Pinault Foundation's Palazzo Grassi in Venice. Jonathan Wateridge lives and works in London. undefined

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