About

About the Artist

Ross Borton is a contemporary British abstract expressionist painter based in Brighton. He is best known for his large-scale, dynamic canvases that navigate the emotional complexities of living with late-diagnosed Autism and ADHD. His practice is steeped in a rich lineage of visual craft. One of his earliest memories is selling his late grandmother's paintings from the pavement outside Green Park in London, a foundational introduction to art as a public act. Later, a diploma in interior design alongside a career in magazine publishing and printing honed his sharp appreciation for colour harmony, visual impact, and spatial composition. This sub-surface structural awareness was further influenced by his father's training as a master tailor and pattern cutter at the London College of Fashion, which instilled a lifelong fascination with form, pattern, and tension.

Formalising his painterly path through a City & Guilds in oil painting (2010-2011), Borton subsequently graduated from the University of Brighton with First-Class Honours in Fine Art Painting in 2025. Driven by a sustained sense of childhood disaffection, he retains an enduring affinity with the punk and post-punk movements of the late 1970s and early 1980s. For Borton, painting remains an absolute necessity, an energetic dialogue between control and chaos, and a vital way to survive the noise.