Kristian Purcell
@kristianpurcell.bsky.social
Artist working between the historical & personal. Illustrator of ‘Doom Towns, a Graphic History of Atomic Testing’. Teacher of Art. He/him. www.kristianpurcell.com
Insta: @kristianpurcell
Insta: @kristianpurcell
Dana Andrews pops in for a studio visit…
December 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Dana Andrews pops in for a studio visit…
Starting to feel like Dana Andrews staring at this painting of #genetierney all day. lots of fine details and layers still to do, but she’s coming together.
#filmnoir #filmsky
#filmnoir #filmsky
December 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Starting to feel like Dana Andrews staring at this painting of #genetierney all day. lots of fine details and layers still to do, but she’s coming together.
#filmnoir #filmsky
#filmnoir #filmsky
More soft painterliness for 2026, I think.
December 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
More soft painterliness for 2026, I think.
A pair of Shakespearean actresses on the last stages. Hope to get them finished by the end of the year.
December 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A pair of Shakespearean actresses on the last stages. Hope to get them finished by the end of the year.
I’m on Christmas holidays from the day job so treating myself to the completely frivolous task of painting a version of the iconic painting from Preminger’s Laura, 1944
#filmnoir
#filmnoir
December 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I’m on Christmas holidays from the day job so treating myself to the completely frivolous task of painting a version of the iconic painting from Preminger’s Laura, 1944
#filmnoir
#filmnoir
All work and no play makes Kristian a dull boy… so off to the Imax tonight…
December 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
All work and no play makes Kristian a dull boy… so off to the Imax tonight…
December 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Faces I’ve painted in the past year.
December 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Faces I’ve painted in the past year.
A quick sketch this evening. Naomi Watts after a fantastic photo by Chris Floyd.
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A quick sketch this evening. Naomi Watts after a fantastic photo by Chris Floyd.
Obsessed with Hania Rani’s Non-Fiction right now sptfy.bio/nonfiction
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Obsessed with Hania Rani’s Non-Fiction right now sptfy.bio/nonfiction
Each drawing the rest of an often arduous search into my vast collection of archive images. I am searching for a resonance to an emotion or thought unexpressed until the image is found and the process begun.
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Each drawing the rest of an often arduous search into my vast collection of archive images. I am searching for a resonance to an emotion or thought unexpressed until the image is found and the process begun.
Newly finished bit of drawing.
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Newly finished bit of drawing.
And it crops down to pretty much the cover of Low!
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
And it crops down to pretty much the cover of Low!
After listening to the second iteration of the @backlisted.bsky.social on All the Devils are Here (Una’s Version?) (the Miller redux?) i’m finally diving in.
November 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
After listening to the second iteration of the @backlisted.bsky.social on All the Devils are Here (Una’s Version?) (the Miller redux?) i’m finally diving in.
How it’s going.
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
How it’s going.
Building up early layers on a new piece inspired by a photograph of Anita Louise as Titania, Queen of the Fairies in the 1935 film adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
#anitalouise #midsummernightsdream #shakespeare
#contemporarypaintings #figurativeartist #painting #hair
#anitalouise #midsummernightsdream #shakespeare
#contemporarypaintings #figurativeartist #painting #hair
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Building up early layers on a new piece inspired by a photograph of Anita Louise as Titania, Queen of the Fairies in the 1935 film adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
#anitalouise #midsummernightsdream #shakespeare
#contemporarypaintings #figurativeartist #painting #hair
#anitalouise #midsummernightsdream #shakespeare
#contemporarypaintings #figurativeartist #painting #hair
My painting of Vivien Leigh on her birthday
'Did ever raven sing so like a lark" (Vivien Leigh), 2025. Oil on canvas, 70x60cm.
'Did ever raven sing so like a lark" (Vivien Leigh), 2025. Oil on canvas, 70x60cm.
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My painting of Vivien Leigh on her birthday
'Did ever raven sing so like a lark" (Vivien Leigh), 2025. Oil on canvas, 70x60cm.
'Did ever raven sing so like a lark" (Vivien Leigh), 2025. Oil on canvas, 70x60cm.
November 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Bedford School Staff & Friends exhibition, PV 6.30-8 7th Nov
Show runs until 12 December
Show runs until 12 December
November 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Bedford School Staff & Friends exhibition, PV 6.30-8 7th Nov
Show runs until 12 December
Show runs until 12 December
October 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM