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Book · Palgrave Macmillan · 2026

Virtual Reality as a New Tool in Painting Painting in the Fourth Dimension

What if the painter's brush could transcend the canvas, sculpting not just shape and form but the very fabric of spacetime? This book presents the idea that virtual reality represents a pivotal moment in art history, the next profound evolution in the long lineage of fine art painting.

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I'm Joshua Stanton, a freelance XR and real-time 3D consultant based in Hampshire, working with studios, agencies and technical organisations across the UK and remotely.

Joshua Stanton: shaved head, dark beard, clear-framed glasses, navy jacket over a sea-green T-shirt
  • PhD, Glasgow School of Art
  • MFA, Edinburgh College of Art
  • Exhibited at MIT Technology Review EmTech Digital, EuroVR, NeurIPS Workshop on ML for Creativity and Design
  • Based in Romsey, Hampshire

My work connects the look of an experience with how it behaves. I trained as a painter, took that practice into VR for a PhD at Glasgow School of Art, and spent the following years building real-time 3D for research, enterprise and my own published work. That path means I'm equally at home sculpting a hero asset, writing the shader that renders it and building the Unity systems that make it interactive.

Recent work includes end-to-end delivery of a browser-based enterprise XR platform for a Fortune Global 500 technology company as Head of Technical Art & XR, and real-time environments for driver-in-the-loop safety research at the University of Southampton. My book, Virtual Reality as a New Tool in Painting, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2026.

You work directly with me. If a project needs additional specialists, I'll say so and make their role and scope clear before we begin.

I trade through Stanton Interactive Ltd, my company.