Welcome to the website of the British artist James Bloomfield. James is a full time Artist living and working in Salford and Manchester. James has exhibited at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Stockport Art Gallery and has reached stage two of the John Moores painting prize in 2004 and the secind cut of the BP portrait award 2008. He has work in public and private collections including a series of paintings on permanent public display at Salford Royal Hospital.

Of particular interest to James has been the involvement of local community groups and Arts and Health organisations including START in Salford where he was a Visual Arts Tutor and Pool Arts in Manchester where he is currently Studio Manager. He has also worked extensively with Gorton Visual Arts on a number of high profile public art installations.

More recently James has been experimenting with non-art objects, elements of Sound Art, Film and Social Sculpture and introducing meaning and representation into his painting practise. His work is constantly evolving to communicate his ideas more effectively and to wider audiences. His latest project Meadowland uses growth interventions to highlight the sickness of our Social Organism.