Super beautiful work from Los Angeles-based painter Seth Armstrong

A kind of magic happens when Seth Armstrong puts brush to canvas. Having only been familiar with his work for the Mr Porter Journal, I became instantly bewitched by his paintings when clicking through his website.

There’s so much depth in Seth’s work, not just aesthetically with the rich tones and shading he uses but in the narrative, where we wonder how these different characters came to be in the same place together and what’s going to happen next.

Raised in LA, there’s a distinctively filmic feel to everything yet Seth also manages to create a wonderful intimacy with voyeuristic touches especially in some of the portraits. I imagine that only by seeing his work in real life would you truly understand and appreciate the intricacies and other little details he includes, but seeing them online is a not bad place to start.