Ian Berry

At first glance, many believe that Ian Berry’s work are blue toned photographs or indigo coloured oil paintings. Even at touching distance, many viewers don’t realise that they are looking at many layers, and shades, of denim jeans.

Berry is originally from the town of Huddersfield, which once had a booming textile industry. He now lives and works in Poplar, East London. His work using denim, now such an urban fabric, after having such rural origins, has caught many eyes and his commissioned portraits include Debbie Harry, Jennifer Saunders, Giorgio Armani and Giselle, to name a few.