Interrupted reading
Oil paint on timber panel, 40.5 x 51cm.
London
Chromatic studies – summer 2023
These are small oil painted veneered boards exploring differing colour explorations for larger figurative pictures in progress. They follow reading ‘Interaction of Colour’ by Josef Albers and visits to Tate Modern to see the ‘Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life’ exhibition. Mondrian’s famous abstractions, look simple but are not. There is much thought into the placing of the canvas into a framing board, the treatment of the edge returns, and of course the physical geometric proportions of everything he is working with – lines and blocks of colour.
Here the boards explore and investigate the problems of:
- the colour green and how it appears in nature
- skin tone
- night time in a Málaga bar
Life Drawing – summer 2023
The life drawing classes continue at Tottenham Art Classes at the Beehive Pub in South Tottenham every Thursday evening. Here is Stephen, a fantastic model who we have drawn several time before. You should have been there!
2022 Xmas Card
Work in progress of the lino print papers being folded and cropped ready for posting.
Book illustrations
A series of ink drawings on paper for a series of illustrations for a book of ‘nonsense’ poems and riddles about food.
Tea
Self portrait 02 – April 2021
Oil on canvas – 20 x 25cm
Self portrait 01 – April 2021
Self portrait March 2021
Yasmin
This time the drawing experiments with Saunders Waterford 300gsm hot pressed paper. It is very good.
It is difficult to capture the colour, light and detail of the pencil work with the very basic lighting and camera set up I have at home. Looking at the image now there are things that need further work but I am pleased with both the likeness of Yasmin and the connecting spaces within the picture. It is hard to know how bold to go with the contrasts of the shadowed spaces and walls but next time I will try and push these further.
Art from a Bicycle 