My name is Jon Prothero, a painter born in South Wales UK who calls his painting style 'Omni Dimensionalism.'

Omni Dimensionalism is best described as the way an eclectic range of influences and techniques are used to create a potent cocktail of artistic fusion. My style often moves seamlessly from emotive, physical, free expressionism to the more subtle approaches of intelligible 'mark making', This can be seen within the explosions of colour, dripping, tainted, tears or a sensitively applied translucent renaissance glaze. I do whatever i think it takes to bring the vibration of life to a work.

The roots of my style can be found in my childhood tactile experiences, scrawling doodles with a broken branch in muddy riverbanks, exploding mud piles with a fist, fingers swimming with sensual pleasure in the River Ebbw. Hands against rock, tree bark and climbing up the coal slag heaps of the Blackvien. For along side conventional techniques I often use broken branches, sticks, bare