Biography 

Spencer Cain is a Lowbrow Artist from Limerick, Ireland.
His main medium* is oil painting and digital illustration.
Spencer is self-taught and has been engaging in the arts fully since 2017.

Artists’ Statement

My ultimate goal in most pieces is to translate images and themes from dreams I’ve experienced, for posterity. I take a decidedly hands off approach with the concepts I use in my art, trying to note dreams and similarly vague ideas down, and translate them to visual media, as accurately as possible. I work in a variety of mediums, all in service of accuracy.

Recurring themes and inspirations in my art include, in no particular order, androgyny, body horror, pre-photography medical & disease illustration, sadomasochism, and mildness and gentleness being contrasted with the aforementioned. In general I try to use soft, inoffensive shapes and colours to make heavy or dark ideas palatable.
I aim to make the figures I draw uncanny, but human- this combined with their settings in theory is dreamlike, like meeting eyes with a stranger to whom you have no relation to but feel and uncanny connection to, or like seeing something traumatic but feeling entirely detached and unmoved.
I consider myself a Lowbrow or Pop Surrealist artist, influenced by the media I grew up with-

Using bright poppy colours and a relaxed mood to offset sadness and trauma is something I believe strongly in and is the real core of my work, I think.

*as of 2022