For over 15 years following his training in London, Bristol-based artist Jim Starr’s paintings and screen prints have been exhibited in over 90 shows internationally. He has also painted and drawn on location worldwide.

Influenced by pop culture and street art, Jim works across a variety of media, creating dialogues of abstraction and composition. His subject-matter often draws upon Thames landscape and wildlife – depicted in a painterly style reminiscent of Old Masters – and also his friends in Bristol, drawing on questions of identity and fiction.

Bee Eaters & Venus – Jim Starr (above)

Jim Starr’s studio (below)

This is Jim’s 100th Show and we are delighted to host it here at The Square. Open daily. Free entry 10am-6pm.

”Painter, Illustrator and Printmaker Jim Starr is returning to Bristol after exhibiting in London, Paris, New York and most recently Chicago, to hold his 100th show at The Square Hotel this month. Jim – who has a home and studio in Stokes Croft – creates original, often complex works, each uniquely different, and his new paintings and large scale ‘remixed’ screen prints reflect a lifelong enjoyment of Bird-watching and wild places. Jim, whose inspirations include Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jim Dine, also mines a rich seam of pop culture and street influences. ” The shape feel and character of birds present thousands of possibilities for making paintings,” he says.”Herons, for example, are elegant when perched or resting and sometimes ungainly and comical on the move, while birds of prey – ‘top guns’ of the avian world – are evolved to perfection, sleek in flight and regal when at roost.” – STATE OF THE ART, The Bristol Magazine, Issue 145, July 2016 

Jim’s work in progress (above)

Jim Starr – Harpy Eagle (below)