Mike Worrall

About

Mike Worrall is a British surrealist painter born in 1942 in Matlock, Derbyshire, UK. Self-taught since the early 1960s, he began as a summer artist, working in advertising studios and creating pavement art near the National Portrait Gallery. His breakthrough came in the late 1960s when a collector bought his works and introduced him to a Cork Street gallery, leading to his first one-man show in 1971. Worrall worked as a conceptual artist in the film industry during the 1970s and 1980s, contributing to projects including Roman Polanski's Macbeth (inspired by one of his paintings), a planned Flash Gordon adaptation by Nicolas Roeg, Alien III, and productions in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and Hollywood. He moved to Australia in 1988, where he continues to produce large-scale oil paintings exploring dreamlike surreality, mystery, and the subconscious, often featuring women in enigmatic interiors or landscapes with surreal elements.

Surrealism with dreamlike mystery and historical influences