Colin Binns is a contemporary artist who makes mixed media paintings and drawings, based at his studio on the Lancashire coast in North West England. He explores abstract ideas working with concepts of place, memory and myth. This approach has generated a portfolio of strikingly bold paintings using vigorous marks, colours and textures to express the ideas.
He also works with photography in parallel with the paintings as part of a process that generates additional ideas and material for the mixed media work.
Prior to working as an artist, Colin enjoyed a career as an award winning designer in a multi disciplinary practice and subsequently as a lecturer in art and design. He left full-time lecturing in 2001 to focus on his personal art practice and has since exhibited widely throughout the region.