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XCIV, one small abstract on paper currently for sale, shown here mounted (matted), in striated colours of deep teal to inky prussian blue, dark aubergine and grey…

from a series of one hundred small paintings started in late 2008…

numbered I to C, aka chromatids, 2008-2009

chromatids: the two strands into which a chromosome divides during cell division; origin, from the Greek ‘khroma’ meaning colour and id (an abbreviation of identity rather than id, of impulse or instinct)..

four more small abstract paintings on paper from the chromatids series..

you can view the most recent paintings for sale online here…

it’s all about sensing & seeing colour…

here are a few more of the small abstracts from the same series, hanging out to dry in the studio…

at the time i had the idea that i would later mount or frame all one hundred of these and exhibit them as one wall-based work…  but, being small works on paper they also suited the idea that i had also wanted to begin selling some small abstract paintings online (via etsy)…

click here to view the remaining small paintings in this series…

my primary aim in this series was to explore visual relationships in both surface texture & colour, and they were created in sequence but on a reduced scale – small, tactile colourscapes or studies that suggest abstract fragments of landscape or colour samples from the environment but are only identified by a reference number, a process inspired in part by the coded synthesis of genetic dna maps and product barcodes…

and here are a few photographs, taken down on the farm

thank you for looking…

aha… if you have scrolled down this far, then may i introduce to you three very small abstract paintings on postcards…

three small abstract paintings on postcards

untitled I, II & III , 2010
wax, bitumen, emulsion & acrylic on paper, mounted onto postcards

i received these back from the little postcard art exhibition at the king’s lynn arts centre – thus, perhaps starting a tradition of giving away these small exhibition remainders – all three are up for grabs, yes absolutely gratis…

to be in with a chance, just show your interest by leaving a little comment below (your contact email is not published or shared but is required to authenticate the comment)…

distinct from my previous art giveaway, this time just ONE WINNER will be selected at random after the closing date of 1st september 2010 to receive ALL THREE postcards…

the winner will be contacted by the email they have provided and will then need to provide the necessary contact information by return for the postcards to be dispatched to them.

thank you for reading and good luck…

pirating the caribbean

February 4th, 2010


[trinidad 2010, hand-coloured collagraph on paper on canvas]

Trinidad has become the working title for this small abstract on canvas, as returned by an analysis & association of colour values (read more about my colour values)… the vibrant stripes do seem to echo the colours of carnival, and the structures of the makeshift tin and brick settlements or shanty towns of the Carribbean, places which, despite their obvious veneer of poverty, still resonate with a resourceful and determined spirit.


[trinidad, another view]

This is a photograph of the Laventille hills in the Port of Spain, Trinidad.

If one only chooses to see the poverty and crime associated with these supposed slum settlements of the Carribbean, then one would also miss out on witnessing the cultural homeland of carnivalcalypso music, and the uplifting rhythms and beats of steelpan bands…

Back in June 2003, I took this photograph of the neighbour’s old tin shed (which backed onto the boundary of our two gardens). Shortly after, the (then new) neighbour took down the delapidated shed. I remarked at the time that I quite liked seeing the rusty facade of the shed (from my side), to which he replied:  ’ah, you must be an artist’.

However, the neighbour, being a resourceful diy type, re-used what was salvagable from the wreck, and parts of it later re-appeared as a boundary fence at the bottom of the garden. So, I am still able to marvel at the myriad colours of rust in the metal corrugation, a found painting that I can see day after day.

the Italian job

February 2nd, 2010

I’ve snatched another title for this piece (and one for the post), again just using my colour values system…


[Tuscany, mixed media collagraph and painting on canvas]

I got carried away, taking these photographs, using some rough-prepped canvases as a backdrop…

As luck would have it, google images returned a suitably idyllic vista as visual reference, a Tuscan sunset

And all this brought back some memories. Although I have never stayed in Tuscany, I once travelled through it. At the age of 18 (although I think I must have been 19 by the time we returned), I back-packed with two other friends across Europe, travelling through Italy by train, stopping off at Milan, Venice, Bologna, Pisa, Rome, Naples (and Pompeii), and then on to the port of Brindisi… I don’t remember the landscape looking like this…

I managed to complete three more of these collagraph canvases today, their titles and back stories to be revealed in future posts. We have had three days of intermittent power-cuts, for no apparent reason, resulting in having to heat water for tea in a pan on the fire and toasting hot-cross buns, which taste so much better in a crisis…

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