
I Can't Save Ya
James Green - 2023
- Multimedia on unstretched canvas
- Original Artwork
- 23.62 x 43.3 in
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I Can't Save Ya
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I Can't Save Ya confronts the viewer with raw urgency and layered intensity. Stark strokes of black, white, and green surge across the canvas, disrupted by jagged bursts of yellow that resemble figures both emerging and dissolving. The composition suggests struggle and chaos, with graffiti-like lines evoking voices that are desperate yet uncontainable.
Painted on unstretched canvas, the work retains an unpolished immediacy, reinforcing its themes of vulnerability and resistance. James Green’s multimedia approach creates dense textures and dynamic energy, transforming paint into a visual language of survival and defiance. The title underscores the painting’s haunting resonance, as if capturing a moment where power, helplessness, and truth collide. This piece is bold, emotional, and unapologetically human—an unforgettable addition to any serious contemporary collection.
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About the artist

Green paints directly onto raw, unstretched canvas, working instinctively, without preamble or pause for thought. His earliest work was observational and figurative, with a kind of meticulous precision, but, having demonstrated this precocious skill, he felt free to cast-off formal technique and to work in a more expressive way, characterised by loose, vivid unpredictability. The first impression is of gestural vitality and rich painterly effect – bright colours merge into murky smudges; sharp definition blurs into misty formlessness. There are sweeping lines; scribbly detail; indistinct colour washes; paint drips, flows or clumps into crusty accretions. Suggestions of formal structure are quickly subverted. Amidst this abstract maelstrom there are hints of crude calligraphy, figuration and human faces – ambiguous, half-formed, partially erased.
“The last decade has been about dissecting the human form in a process that is energetic, spontaneous and organic. I now find it more powerful to capture the essence of a person rather than to render an exact image. The paintings I make today are one-offs that I couldn’t replicate. They are unique to specific moments, authentic to me. I don’t look for or seek inspiration; I live my colourful life and allow that to guide the path for my practice.”