About Samuel Buttner

London-based artist works with found objects, printed ready-mades as well as wood and bronze sculptures. Samuel Buttner exhibits internationally, has received awards and commissions for art in public spaces, and his work is held in both private and public collections – following from that my drawings as an eight-year-old received much attention there was support and opportunities for training during my teenage years which lead to an education of professional wood sculptor. During my mid-twenties I followed an enigmatic pull into social work, creativity for children, also teaching in the special educational needs sectorP10, a work experience and education that feeds into my innovative processes. My self-understanding of being an artist primarily remained throughout and I continued to work in the field. The sculptor, printmaker and conceptual artist is grounded in life drawing, anatomical studies, and plein air painting. Much of the above befriends me to artists like Vincent van Gogh, valuing eye-brain-hand-coordination for authentic, ecstatic expressiveness. Being equally aware how the subconscious gets visualized where it is said that positive stimuli to be evident as well as an artist philosopher, hence resonating with the like Marcel Duchamp exploring that limitless creativity-of-the-mind; that which is outside the box –