Miles Walker's Artxtra: A Surreal Futuristic Sci-Fi Art Gallery - Paperback

by Miles Walker (Author)

.This is a visual, strange and dreamlike art book with 230 full colour visionary pictures, that will appeal to all art lovers and creative students. The passionate and philosophical thinking behind Miles Walker's paintings skim across the future, artificial intelligence, science fiction, poetry and humor. This is bizarre humorous binge art, that you could see on debtflicks if it existed. It explores hyperrealism in art, the pigment of lies that gives you the texture of pork pies....The extraordinary portraits and landscapes have a surreal deceptive perspective. You will see visions of our articulate political, and religious controllers who have turned our lives into an artsclub theatre for the media to put into episodes that they call the daily news. International arts councils should come with a government health warning Is the art society we live in politically incorrect? Buy this book it is a global warning that shows the unusual humorous time we live in.....Life on earth is an art installation in this science fiction art gallery we call existence.....This offbeat poetic art book will be on every tea table (or is that coffee) of concerned curious art lovers.

Author Biography

Miles Walker born in the West Country, his father from Cornwall. As a child, loved art. He lived a colonial life in East Africa, emigrated to Brisbane returning to Cornwall. Now living in Vancouver Canada; writing, teaching, painting and embracing technology using photoshop and painter. Miles studied at Brisbane Central Technical College Art School mentored by Roy Churcher, Haysom, Frank Rowland. Moving to London there was so much enthusiasm for pop art, cinema, philosophy, poetry, science fiction and the future. He developed new skills in airbrush and oils over this decade culminating in a Major Exhibition of drawings, paintings and film called "Centuri Maya Nexus" at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London. Paying homage to Salvador Dali, when he was alive, visiting Dali's house a number of times this influenced Miles painting, resulting in eccentric hyperrealistic surreal art. Miles is still trying everyday to understand the meaning of his own life!