Jiar Profile | Artists Profiles

Welcome to the Little Scratch Online Art Gallery

Who we are:
This gallery offers you the opportunity to both view and buy the work from a palette of respected international artists whose roots are based in the graffiti art form. Over the years each artist, or group of artists, has progressed in their own unique direction creating art which goes beyond stereotyped labels of street art or urban art. No longer content to just express their views on walls, they now express their feelings and experiences through a diversity of mediums including paints, pens, photography, videos, sculptures, and even lightwriting. Such is the quality of their work many have shown their pieces in galleries all around the world.

What we do:
We support the artists at Little Scratch by promoting them, creating shows and selling their work. Indeed, some of the work we sell is exclusive to Little Scratch. Artwork available includes silkscreen prints , giclee fine art prints (including photography) and one-off art pieces and sculptures . Books and vinyl toys can also be purchased from time to time. In addition to selling work on behalf of the artist, we also sell selected pieces from individual private collections. Not all art work is shown on line, so please contact us if you would like to see additional pieces.

Little Scratch hopes you enjoy the work displayed at this online gallery. Actual gallery shows will also be set up across Europe and dates will be made available via this website so keep your eyes peeled. You may also wish to subscribe to the monthly news letter. Finally, Little Scratch welcomes any thoughts or feedback, and can be contacted via the Online Assistant or by email .

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Jiar

David Lupschen, aka Jiar, was born in Cologne, Germany in 1980. Jiar has been interested in painting and drawing from a very young age. At around this time he was sketching the names of his classmates, when a meeting with a guy propelled him into the world of graffiti: “This guy in my neighbourhood, who was part of a graffiti crew told me everything I needed to know; where to get spraycans, graffiti-magazines, everything. And he introduced me to other graffiti-writers.”

Although Jiar started out by writing his name in letters (big letters!), he began to paint photo-realistically and soon progressed to developing his own characters: “bad, fat monsters [who] have lots of fun.” Jiar also went on to study design communication in Dusseldorf. Now, Jiar is a skilled graffiti artist, illustrator, motion designer and print master with his own studio “jiar.grafikfiti”, and whilst he mostly produces his creations on canvases in Germany and Cologne he also enjoys the opportunity to travel around and particularly likes working in warm counties! Indeed, Jiar gains his inspiration from his surroundings, including the people he meets, the different cities he visits, magazines and the internet. Jiar is also the other half of the successful light writing crew, Lichtfaktor (see artists profile).

Click on the images below to view previous/current works. To see art available to buy click here.

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