Daniel Freaker graduated with an MFA in Fine Art and History and Theory of Art from the Slade School of Art in London in 2000. Since studying, his work has evolved through exhibiting and lecturing in the U.K. and internationally. He lives and works in Portsmouth in the UK. 

Freaker’s paintings sit between abstract and figurative spaces, using different types of mark making depending on the subject matter. Some details are clearly defined where others are more suggestive. This is taken further through the frequent use of negative spaces to generate form in a way that plays with absence and presence. The unusual, fluid and dynamic processes generate a sense of nostalgia about moments that are both beautiful and painful and that keep the canvas feeling like it is fluid and still in the process of painting. 

Central to Freaker’s works is a sense of tension created through the juxtaposition of colours, processes, marks and subject matter. The interaction of oppositional elements such as architectural and organic, past and future, chaos and order, dynamic and restrained, vibrance and darkness, accident and intention, order and chaos, is what makes the work memorable.