JAMES ANDERSON ROGERS
Oil Painting – Graphite Drawing – Plein Air
James Anderson Rogers is an English artist, born in Crewe, Cheshire in 1978. He primarily produces plein air oil paintings and realistic graphite drawings. He now lives in the Cheshire market town of Sandbach.
From an early age, James excelled at art and found great enjoyment and an increased confidence amongst his peers, as they began to react positively to his doodles and sketches. He struggled at school and was diagnosed with dyspraxia in 1986.
After obtaining good grades in Art at GCSE, James attended the Mid-Cheshire College of Art and Design in Hartford, Northwich. He gained a BTEC National Diploma in Technical Illustration. From there he studied towards an HND in Natural History Illustration at the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design in Dorset.
Following college, James began to draw and paint, purely for enjoyment and worked in retail.
During 2017 he began to spend more time working from observation and painting en plein air in oils, which proved therapeutic and a way of improving his mental health. In 2019, James began to work solely on his art and hasn’t looked back.
His two main areas of work are realistic graphite drawings, particularly portraiture and figurative art, and plein air oil painting. Two distinctly contrasting bodies of work have emerged as a result.
James at Work
