James Usill is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer exploring abstract experiments in colour, form, and composition. Usill’s work is centred on disruption and distortion in visual media, employing various processes and techniques, both physical and digital, to manipulate images and visual systems.

Ranging from psychedelic glitch paintings to digital collages and design-for-music visuals, his work focuses on evocative textures, mood and emotion while escaping direct representation . Whether rewriting image file code, distorting analogue TV signals, or misusing digital tools like Photoshop, Usill bends technology to challenge perceptions and visual norms. Starting with a base image, motif, or theme, he abstracts and deconstructs it to build a unique visual language that morphs over different media.

Usill’s broader vision is to shift perception by disrupting everyday visual expectations, cultivating a dialogue between the organic and the digital, the stable and the unstable. He draws inspiration from the edge of new media art, where experimentation with error becomes a creative tool rather than a flaw.