Visual artist Aengus Rathbone Follow.Art Card

About me

Hi, my name is Aengus.

I am a self-taught painter, using airbrush, posca-pen and traditional paint brush.

My ideas are about day and night dreams.
I feed off nostalgia and memory with a determined escapism.
The work is balanced with block colours, sharp contrasts and a vibrancy found in the 80s and 90s aesthetic.
There is play and mystery and often a palm tree and sea not far away.

I explore different themes with my special memory glasses. But my feelings are represented in a consistent palette. My immediate surroundings of Brighton are my latest work.
Living in a postcard seaside town makes me want to present an alternative. And striving for this pushes me to create a fresh dreamscape that I call - Brighton-wave.

I have recently been short-listed in the painting category for the Visual Art Open Prize 2026.

If you found yourself in Brighton, and would like to visit the studio, i would be delighted to host. I am right in the heart of Kemptown. Just click the button or email me directly.