I started this painting by drawing sculpture shapes into a large canvas. I was enjoying myself, and it soon became quite busy. I used a light blue wash to tone it down, but I wanted the drawn elements to be visible underneath. The overall effect was that the painting took on the sense of a stone, so I added the large abstract flowers to bring back some life. Then I began to paint in earnest. At first, randomly, then instinctively. At this stage, I put the canvas …
This is the journey of “Acrobats and Flowers”, one of the oil paintings in my solo show currently on view at John Martin Gallery in London. I got really into painting these black linear shapes on a red canvas but ended up painting over it in the end. It gave me the idea of painting vertical lines as a central feature, and this is the canvas that absorbed …
Acrobats and Flowers, one of the large oil on canvases in my upcoming show at John Martin Gallery in London, is in the Financial Times Weekend Edition today! You can find it flicking through the How To Spend It magazine.
I was due to show work I have created throughout 2020 in a new solo exhibition at the John Martin Gallery in London. With the recent tightening of lockdown restrictions in England, the show has been postponed. The gallery is still operating online, and you can find the most up to date information on their website or by subscribing to their newsletter. I am heading back to the studio. If you are interested in a behind-the-scenes look at my studio and creative process, check back here in a few days. I am starting a studio vlog, and the first episode should be up then.
The title „And All You Knew Changed Crazily“ seems so apt for the situation we all find ourselves in at the moment that I only wish I could apply this level of divination when I do my weekly lotto numbers. There are these pipe structures that have appeared in several of my recent paintings. The longer I looked at them the more I began to see them as some sort of map of life. A chance meeting or a quick decision might be the sharp turn that changes the course of a life dramatically. For better or worse. The title captured that idea perfectly and in doing so helped me become fully conscious of it. I don’t usually think too much about …
