Connor Hornby is a hyperrealist coloured pencil artist based in the North West of England.

His work centers around ordinary objects and the marks people leave behind on them. Worn leather, creased packaging, faded surfaces and softened materials become records of use - evidence that something has been handled, kept, valued or simply lived with.

He is increasingly drawn to objects because of their imperfections rather than in spite of them. The marks people leave behind can say something about the person who used it without that person ever needing to appear in the work.

Each drawing is built slowly through many layers of coloured pencil, with an obsessive focus on texture, light and surface. The aim is not to simply reproduce an object accurately, but to make people stop again and look at things that would usually be overlooked.

At a time when more of the world and culture is becoming more shaped by artificial intelligence, Hornby’s work is growing fascinated with the physical evidence of humanity.