Eternal
Eternal Art Collective is a visual art collective built around original oil painting, created
by Myles Reynolds and Blake Batson. It is supported by film, photography, and digital content that documents and expands on the creative process behind the work.
Eternal Art Collective creates and sells original oil paintings, supported by film,
photography, and digital content that documents and expands on the painting process.
Alongside this, we also work with music, storytelling, and other creative forms. These are still developing, but they are an important part of how the collective explores ideas and grows.
At its core, Eternal is a visual art practice. Everything else exists to support, deepen, or
communicate the work behind the paintings.
Myles Reynolds
Myles Reynolds is a 23-year-old painter and musician based in Bristol. A graduate of Brighton School of Art, he makes mixed media paintings that deal in emotion — raw, layered, and entirely his own. His work has been described as visceral, honest, and impossible to forget. He presents his paintings alongside his own original music, creating an experience that is greater than either alone.
He makes work that doesn't flinch. His paintings are mixed media — layers of paint, texture and material built up and torn back down, each one a record of a feeling pushed through until it found its form. They deal in the things that are hardest to say out loud: grief, longing, beauty, strangeness, the weight of being human. You don't just look at them. You feel them.
He is also a musician. His songs are not a side project. They come from the same place the paintings do — the same late nights, the same restlessness, the same need to find the shape of a feeling and hold it still for a moment. When his music plays alongside his paintings, something happens in the room. Collectors describe it as recognition. That is exactly what he is going for.
"The work starts with something real — a mood, a memory, a moment of watching someone and knowing exactly what they're carrying without them saying a word. I build up layers: paint, texture, material. I work into it and back over it until the surface tells the truth." - Myles Reynolds
Blake batson
When I think about what I’m passionate about, until recently, i never had a clean answer.
What I’ve realised since creating this business, and maybe what I’ve known for a long time, is that I’m interested in people — and more specifically, the human experience.
My practical passion has always been film. Since a young age I’ve had a strong love for it, and over the years that has only grown and deepened. To me, films are one of the clearest ways of showing the human experience and sharing perspectives of other lives. I see it as a tool for understanding people, and something that plays a big part in my role within Eternal.
I’ve always tried to find humanity in work, even in places that don’t feel creative — through environments, coworkers, and customers. There is always potential for a connection to be made, or something to learn. I’ve never really seen it any other way.
I’ve also always had a strong interest in travel, and in what can be learned from places and experiences outside of your own. With work and life, this hasn’t always been possible in the way I would like, but I’m grateful for what I’ve experienced so far, and I want to keep that part of my life going forward.
Eternal Art Collective is where all of this comes together for me — a place where my values, experiences, and creative interests have direction. Over time, I hope it becomes something that grows not just for me, but for the people involved in it and the people it reaches.
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