This year I decided to go to Art School to get the benefit of ongoing feedback and development of my work. I was accepted on the BA (hons) Fine Art course at Bath School of Art and Design. It has a great heritage – Howard Hodgkin and Gillian Ayres both taught here – and all […]
I’m working on a heavily textured painting and adding newsprint to the surface before overpainting and tearing into the surface. A close-up of the work – it’s not finished yet but I thought you’d like to see my creative process The texture is building up on the surface of the canvas now – you can […]
I thought that you might like to see how one of my paintings develops. This is what I’m working on right now. It’s not finished yet – the orange sections in particular need reworking. Its number 3 of my Black Series of abstract works. I started by covering the canvas with cadmium yellow acrylic. Then […]
The painting of the anglepoise lamp was ok but for me it didn’t have a lot of life or energy. So I covered it in blue paint which I let dry for a while. Then I took the painting to the sink and started washing it, scrubbing it, cutting into it and tearing into the paint […]
Once I had completed my drawing of an anglepoise lamp sitting in a set of weighing scales I was itching to make a painting from it. Again, not my usual route to a painting but I’ll post the stages of the painting so you can see its evolution. These are the first 3 stages – then it changes dramatically in […]
I know that many people think that abstract artists can’t draw. While I often do life drawing and sculpting I very rarely draw inanimate objects as my paintings are based on emotions and intuition. Unstructured and free flowing. But I thought I’d have a go at a still life. It’s an anglepoise lamp sitting in a set of […]
I enjoy working on large canvases. They allow me to use my whole upper body to make broad gestural marks when applying the paint to the canvas. For these 2 paintings I used household brushes rather than artists brushes as they allowed me to load a large quantity of paint onto the brush. […]
I often paint smaller works onto board rather than canvas. This enables me to scratch deeply into the surface of the paint. Untitled on board This is the charcoal drawing which was the basis for the painting above. Study for Untitled on board – Charcoal on paper
I painted this on long strip of paper using a restricted palette of heavy body acrylics – much of it is painted by squeezing the paint out of the tube directly onto the paper then using my hand to indent into the paint while it is still wet and malleable. Also by squeezing the paint […]