Sun Chasing by Jimmy Kearns

James (Jimmy) Kearns is a self-taught artist who developed his artistic skills while working in design and advertising. In 2010 he expanded his repertoire into painting and buoyed by a chance meeting with several prominent Australian artists, Kearns was rapidly catapulted into a full-time art career. After spending much of his adult life living and travelling through the Australian outback, Jimmy is now based in Byron Bay. Inspired by his travels and lured by the freedom of shape, form and colour, Kearns’ paintings are not easily categorised with his style shifting freely between reality and abstraction.

In 2014, Kearns won the Painting Prize and People’s Choice Award for the Mungindi Art Prize. Kearns has exhibited in several regional Australian galleries and art exhibitions. His work is held in private collections in the USA, UK, Dubai and Hong Kong.