James Klinge was born in Glasgow, Scotland where he continues to live and work. His work is primarily figurative using intricate and detailed hand cut stencils as the foundation of the process, yet he describes the process of his paintings as a controlled chaos. It is difficult to see that his paintings begin from stencils as he shows a complimentary blend of intense detail with expressive strikes from his palette knife, bringing an abstraction to his paintings from attacking the canvas.