Billy Byrne

“CAELESTIS MEMORIAE”

“I’ve been drawing as long as I could hold a pencil”

Billy Byrne is a practising British artist, currently working and living in London. He has grown up in a working-class area of East London, where he has been heavily influenced by the diversity that city life brings. Brought up by a mother who liked to make art while taking him to her drawing classes, it was the natural progression that Billy would go on to study art and become an artist himself. His current work deals with themes of mental health, a subject Billy became drawn to when he was diagnosed later in life as being on the autistic spectrum. His signature style uses predominantly the Pointillist technique and application of gold leaf. He believes that the story of the Saving of the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust has the power to renew faith in humanity. 

Billy Byrne is one of the artists for the ‘A Sky of Stars’ exhibition curated by Polina Angelova.