Niall Campbell Strachan

Niall Campbell Strachan is a Scottish visual artist who paints imagined beings with intuitive brush strokes, summoning playful creatures from his subconscious for the audience to make sense of.

With his painterly gestures, Campbell Strachan creates dreamy characters with subtle narratives that interact with others inside and outside of the frame. The facial expressions of his unnamable animals, while simple, portray them as complex, emotional beings, stumbling through the world — much like their human counterparts — in a tribally ornate abstraction. 

Creating with cardboard, spray paint, acrylics and wood, Campbell Strachan harnesses the naivety of a boy’s adventurous wonder to draw the audience into his fantasy. The artist has exhibited all over the world, with his work featuring in many private collections, including that of Jay-Z.

Studio Images: © Euan Robertson