The Spiral Begins here.
Innovation. Imagination. Integration.
This is where concepts take shape. Every project begins as a fragment, a pulse, a possibility and spirals into form.
About Us
AJ Bell is a mixed-media artist working intuitively with paint, texture, and material behavior. Rooted in painting and expanded through experimental processes, the work emerges through gesture, improvisation, and accident rather than fixed intention.
Memory, dream logic, and internal landscapes shape the surfaces—spaces that feel familiar and strange at once. Materials shift, resist, and respond, allowing meaning to surface slowly through physical engagement.
Bell’s work exists in the space between recognition and disorientation, inviting viewers to navigate by intuition and sensation, and to consider how memory and imagination shape perception.
Portfolio
Cyberspider
Like flowers that bloom in unexpected places, every story unfolds with beauty and resilience
Felinament
Like flowers that bloom in unexpected places, every story unfolds with beauty and resilience
For whom the moon melts
Like flowers that bloom in unexpected places, every story unfolds with beauty and resilience
Portfolio
Cyberspider
Like flowers that bloom in unexpected places, every story unfolds with beauty and resilience
Felinament
Like flowers that bloom in unexpected places, every story unfolds with beauty and resilience
Seeking
Like flowers that bloom in unexpected places, every story unfolds with beauty and resilience
Artist Statement
My work is rooted in a process-driven practice that combines painting, mixed media, and experimental materials. I primarily work on canvas with acrylic paint, incorporating watercolor, foam, joint compound, found objects, conductive tape, and 3D-printed elements. Materials are chosen intuitively and shift from piece to piece, allowing each work to evolve through experimentation rather than predetermined outcomes.
I approach each piece without a fixed plan, responding to gesture, color, texture, and the physical behavior of materials as the work unfolds. Accidents, improvisation, and physical interaction are integral to my process. Rather than illustrating a preexisting idea, I allow meaning to emerge through sustained engagement with the materials themselves.
My practice is informed by memory, intuition, and vivid dream states. As a lucid dreamer, I experience imagined environments and internal landscapes that do not exist in waking life. These experiences influence the work indirectly, shaping its emotional logic, spatial ambiguity, and recurring sense of familiarity and disorientation.
I am drawn to the space between the recognizable and the unfamiliar, where everyday materials take on altered meanings and perception becomes unstable. Through layered surfaces, unconventional material combinations, and sensory elements, the work invites viewers to navigate their own responses, reflecting on how memory, imagination, and intuition shape perception.