Bio

Anil Mistry is a mixed media artist based in Berkhamsted, UK. His work is focussed on creating new interpretations of urban landscapes that are abstract in nature, compelling yet warmly familiar.

Following a childhood interest in art and design, Anil began to experiment in his late teens with typography, graphic design and photography, making gig flyers by layering imagery using photocopiers, scissors and glue. Later, software such as Photoshop and Illustrator became his tools of choice for compositions, starting a commercial career in digital graphic design.

He is now creating art combining his own photography from trips around the world, spray paints, stencils, acrylics and screen printing, to create visually striking mixed media collage art.

Anil’s art features stylistically unusual, misfit and often overlooked elements from cityscapes and environments, merging this 'street furniture' to create beautiful compositions of unseen landscapes. Rich in texture and depth, the resulting works tells a brand-new story of its own.

Statement

In my art practice I like to feature stylistically unusual, misfit and often overlooked elements from urban environments, merging them, to create beautiful compositions of unseen landscapes, or close-ups of neighbourhoods that are constantly in transition.

I often include a small human element to my work. This for me gives the art a base in reality and for us to remember that within a continuously changing world there are people trying to navigate the internal or external changes that are thrust upon them.

Like many artworks, these are fictional snap shots of time, capturing a feeling, mood or moment, that can tell a story of their own. In a world where nothing stays still my artwork represents a pause in that continual movement.