a small change on my art for sale page... the studio gallery or little picture shop, a humble means of generating some creative commerce in the digital age, some intended artfulness, a place for the curious to browse or buy, the small shop for art that i quietly oversee and very occasionally promote.if you can spare some change you might be interested to know that these small paintings are now listed in british £££ - although you can opt to pay in whatever currency you choose; worldwide Paypal will do the currency conversion automatically (which is nice)...
LXXIX 2009, abstract stripes painting on paper [click to view more small paintings]a big part of the online shopping experience is waiting for the special parcel to duly arrive, wrapped up in all the anticipation & excitement of receiving a gift that you really wanted...
fjord 2010 [click to view details]to celebrate the small change in my shop, there is free p&p to anywhere in the UK mainland…
[bookmarks, for books, naturally enough]my online art shop is really an extension of my art studio, a selection of small abstracts on paper and even smaller works on canvas - of which, if you are one that has visited this blog before, might know a little about when and how they came about. these are all small, experimental works which are more process-oriented but they relate to (and perhaps even influence) my other paintings...
xciv, 2009 [click to view in my gallery shop]view some of the original chromatids, a series of 100 small paintings on paper that were completed between november 2008 and march 2009. these small works are probably the most collectively colourful series of work i have ever created and yet i never outwardly planned to paint them at all - but i do have an ongoing thing about numbers, patterns and squares. i like squares for their impartiality and objectivity...i usually work with a more subtle or reduced palette of colours on my larger canvases and panels, so this series has been a good exercise to explore colour and texture on this small scale for its own playful & expressive means, and in turn the one hundred paintings later inspired the creation of these distinctive bookmarks - a simple change in format opened up some new ideas to pursue...
[a set of five art bookmarks - in subtle browns, blues and greens, liminal and coastal in palette]
trinidad 2010 [click to view more]ok, art for sale promotion over - i always feel a little uneasy doing this, i don't want to seem too pushy - these are just a few of the things that i have done, things that in their own way make a path to the other art i want to make and do...for now, i have some new exhibitions to focus on (which i hinted at previously) in the year ahead - but there are no pictures-in-progress because... well, it's complicated - stuff happened, i thought a lot about it, what to do next... let's just call this a deliberate episode of photography withdrawal, a creative interlude, a pause in the digital proceedings... purging the senses, a space to think, to write notes or sketch, to doodle and draw, to just make art - just how it used to be... i am always taking a philosophical stance on things......My field of perception is constantly filled with a play of colours, noises and fleeting tactile sensations which I cannot relate precisely to the context of my clearly perceived world, yet which I nevertheless immediately ‘place’ in the world, without ever confusing them with my daydreams.Maurice Merleau-Ponty in The Phenomenology of Perception...Thank you for your continued support of my art.