Welcome to my Gallery, I am Random Man a British artist working in the North West of England. I work under the name Random Man to make digital images. This is because it is a name I have used on the Web since I first began a serious exploration of digital imaging. People were first introduced to my images under the name Random Man and so I feel I should continue to use it for all my computer generated art.

My early computer imagery was very much much what you would expect of computer graphics however I had been producing more abstract and conceptual work by traditional fine art methods. I wanted to bring the ideas and thought processe of the fine artist to the digital canvas. An opportunity to move home some months ago gave me the opening to persue this ambition and so this site has been created.

The computer is perhaps not yet been taken as a serious art tool by the majority of the general public as yet it is still often perceived as the domain of illustrators, animators and graphic designers. This is a great shame and I think owes much to the misguided belief of many that the computer does the work so it can't be real art and anyone can do it. Now where have we heard that before?

I love using my computer it is a wonderful tool for the contemporary artist, it has a seemingly endless capacity for allowing me to alter and control the formation of an image. This introduces the need for new dicipline when working. It is so tempting to experiment and play with new ideas and techniques as one invents or discovers them, one has to focus closely and exercise a great deal of self control to produce finished meaningful images. My hard drive is littered with half developed ideas I hope to return to as soon as I have time.

If you return to my pages frequently, and I hope you enjoy my work enough to want to you will start to see certain themes that recur time and again in my work, these are ideas and concepts and the resultant work may be visualy very different on completion. I wanted an analogy here but somehow none of them quite work. However consider this, art is a visual language and so a message can be passed in many ways after all "cat" and "moggy" are two very different words but the message conveyed can be much the same.

I very much hope you enjoy your exploration of my work much of it is offered in small limited edition print runs often of around 50, these are printed by me on high quality papers using the best inks for the job that i was able to find. A great deal of care has been taken by me to research the best materials I could find to offer a quality product. If you like my work please buy, it is not expensive considering the amount of work involved and high standard of the materials used and I need to sell it to finance making more of it for you.

Enjoy my site and come back again soon,

Random Man