Jon Prothero is a painter born in South Wales UK who calls his painting style 'Omni Dimensionalism.'
Omni Dimensionalism is best described as the way an eclectic range of influences and techniques are used to create a potent cocktail of artistic fusion. His style often moves seamlessly from emotive, physical, free expressionism to the more subtle approaches of intelligible 'mark making'. This can be seen within the explosions of colour, dripping, tainted, tears or a sensitively applied translucent renaissance glaze. Jon paints whatever he feels it takes to bring the vibration of life to a work.
The roots of Jon’s style can be found in his childhood tactile experiences, scrawling doodles with a broken branch in muddy riverbanks, exploding mud piles with a fist, fingers swimming with sensual pleasure in the River Ebbw. Hands against rock, tree bark and climbing up the coal slag heaps of the Blackvien. For along side conventional techniques He often uses broken branches, sticks, bare hands or broken slate to apply, scrape, inscribe or explode my work over the canvas. Jon’s work is very tactile heavy with thick paint juxtaposed with fluid mixtures that weep into textural landscapes.
Jon completed a degree mixing up the arts and cultural theory degree called 'Visual Studies' from The University college of Wales Newport then later went on to do a Post Graduate Certificate in Education and taught art for a while until his own career as an artist took over took over.
