Adrian Darby

A J Darby, a versatile artist with a background in art and photography, creates predominantly monochromatic portraits using graphite and charcoal. His technique revolves around strong contrasts and meticulous layering with 9B graphite sticks and high-quality Faber-Castell pencils, aiming for expressive richness on heavy-weight papers. Darby's art emanates deep emotional undertones, capturing raw human sentiment. Art college trained his love of graphite has only grown over the years. Can lose himself in his studio where he creates drama in tone and light.