The black in the first paintings is very strong, powerful and I’m not sure if it doesn’t block too much out of the rooms where the photos have been taken. I’m looking at these realities, nature as one and house as the other, is black just too strong to deal with the indoor reality? It Read More …
Man’s relationship with nature, my reality
Having got a first at the end of my BA (Hons) Fine Art Practice degree, there has been a bit of a come down and some procrastination in my practice, I have continued to be in nature and even photograph nature but actually producing what I consider to be my work hasn’t happened until now. Read More …
Degree Show Done and Dusted
20th June 2016 Sorting out the gallery space and putting up my work. I never did take photos of the final installation as seen by gallery visitors! Deciding what to put into my installation was difficult, I decided on the paintings shown above. In truth, with all the advice I had from different tutors with Read More …
Exhibition Getting Closer
09/05/2016 This week has been really busy, I’ve started work on two more paintings and been thinking about how to present them well. I’m working on a large painting of the small tree painting I did last week. I couldn’t resist getting it printed 40×60″ because it’s such a beautiful tree. I also ordered a Read More …
Painting not blanking
02/05/2016 A new painting of ‘The Old Bakehouse’, this painting is 40×60″. I don’t feel like I am blanking out the rest of the image so much as painting over the rest of the image, making marks, enjoying the paint. The whole reason for using paint rather than photoshopping out the rest of the photograph, Read More …