Danny Oconnor's paintings

Danny O'Connor (aka DOC) - British Contemporary Artist

Danny O'Connor (born 1981, Liverpool, UK) is a prominent contemporary artist known for his vibrant, abstract, and highly textured portrait and figure paintings.³

Style and Subject

• Focus: Predominantly focuses on portraits and figures, often featuring expressive female faces.⁴

• Aesthetic: His work is described as hyper-stylized and abstracted.⁵ He creates a "celebration of contrasts," blending natural flowing lines with harsh diagonals, and clean, crisp areas of color with layered, messy splashes of paint.⁶

• Influences: His inspiration walks a tightrope between high- and low-brow art, drawing from diverse sources such as:

  • Lowbrow: Comics, Illustration, Character Design, Tattoo Art, and Graffiti.⁷

  • Highbrow: Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Art Nouveau, and Modernism.⁸

Technique and Medium

O'Connor's paintings are characterized by their depth of field, achieved by building the works up in layer upon layer of mixed media.⁹ He famously employs an unconventional "arsenal of tools":

Medium	Application Technique
Paints	Acrylics, Spray Paint, Household Gloss/Emulsion
Drawing/Marking	Ink, Paint Markers, Correction Fluid, Charcoal, Graphite, Oil Sticks
Texture	Texture Pastes, Collage
Application Tools	Brushes, fingers, paint rollers, sticks, paper, and cardboard to drip, splash, spray, print, and stroke the paint onto the surface.