Stan Korytnyj is a semi abstract, figurative artist whose subject matter focuses on social commentary. His influences include Picasso, Brett Whiteley and Francis Bacon.

I don’t particularly enjoy painting or drawing but often I get the drive that makes me put paint to canvas or pencil to paper. I guess I’m a painter with a social conscience.

When confronted with social inequality, abuse of children, exploitation of the poor, snobbery of the privileged, institutional thuggery, marginalisation of minorities – I experience a kind of mental trauma which is relieved to a degree by painting. The images vary from detailed realism to rambling abstraction.