Anchored by the Sun: James Drinkwater

Painter, maker, father, collector of moments—James Drinkwater brings to the canvas not only paint, but the tender, textured residue of a life deeply lived. In ANCHORED BY THE SUN, Drinkwater's artistic practice transforms into a lived philosophy: one that honours the domestic, the poetic, the imperfect, and the perishable. This is an act of reverence—an ode to the everyday, where quiet gestures of care and intimacy are translated into form, colour, and light.

These tonalities and textures have made their way into his paintings. More than just describing a place, Drinkwater evokes a feeling—of being present, of bearing witness, of collecting and reframing the modest rhythms that shape our lives. Each canvas holds the trace of lived experience: the laughter that lingers after rich conversation, the warmth of morning light that falls across the kitchen table, the residue of a long night that stretches into an early morning. His compositions are not constructed, so much as felt into being.

Drinkwater collapses the space between life and art. From gestures that permeate through a love of food, to studio rituals, to the found objects he collects, he draws from the ephemera of the everyday—transforming them into works of emotional resonance and lyrical abstraction. The paint becomes a vessel for sentiment, a means of grounding fleeting sensations into something tangible. His process is tactile and intuitive, guided by touch as much as sight; where each layer of pigment carries with it a fragment of his story and a trace of time well spent.