Axematic is a self-taught digital and pastel artist known for his colourful and painterly style. He describes his style as “Digital Renaissance Art” with the stylus as his brush and the tablet's screen being his canvas. So naturally, he is chiefly inspired by the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Romantic periods of classical paintings with Carravaggio being his favourite painter. Other direct influences include the likes of Van Eyck, Rubens, Vermeer, Barkley L. Hendricks, and CJ Hendry. The life, trials and tribulations of Jean-Michel Basquiat has also helped serve as fuel when navigating the art world. The primary focus of his work is creating portraits of predominantly Black people; portraying them in a grandiose and dramatic fashion. He also enjoys producing paintings with strong social commentary in his non-portraiture work – creating conversations – sometimes awkward in their nature. This can range from subjects covering history, race, politics, finance, or pop culture. Axe loves delving into the realm of “magical reality” and mirror/dual universes. The elements are found in not only his social commentary pieces, but in his portraits aoseso. He also experiments with abstract and cubist styles, as well as different mediums. Currently, he is experiment with a new patented medium called “Touchstone” which is a textured printing format to great success. His digital prints typically utilise high quality Giclée printing on archival paper, usually from Hahnemühle. His pastel work utilise a number of light-fast top quality brands such as Caran d’ache, Faber Castell, Unison and Rembrandt on sanded paper.