“I was an art student who became a screenwriter. Twenty years later, I abandon the page and return to the canvas as I attempt to tell stories through pictures.”
Abstraction: The Practice (of starting)
This is the final part of my ten-step journey from Representational art into Abstraction. I explore the most effective plan to consistently get the work done!
Abstraction: Layering
This is part nine of my ten-step journey from Representational art into Abstraction. This is probably the most important, difficult and revealing step yet: Layering. I take a deep dive into how to create both visual and emotional depth in my painting.
Abstraction: Lettering
This is part eight of my ten-step journey from Representational art into Abstraction. This eighth step is to explore how I can use lettering in my abstract work.
Abstraction: Composition
This is part seven of my ten-step journey from Representational art into Abstraction. This seventh step is to explore successful abstract compositions
Abstraction: Colour
This is part six of my ten-step journey from Representational art into Abstraction. This sixth step is to explore successfully using colour
Abstraction: Tone
This is part five of my ten-step journey from Representational art into Abstraction. This fourth step is to explore tonal value and how this relates to my own painting language.
Abstraction: Contrasts
This is part four of my ten-step journey from Representational art into Abstraction. This forth step is to explore contrasts in the language of a painting.
Abstraction: Gesture
This is part three of my ten-step journey from Representational art into Abstraction. This third step is to explore gestural mark-making
Abstraction: Texture and Pattern
This is part two of my ten-step journey from Representational art into Abstraction. This second step is to explore making texture and pattern.
Abstraction: Shapes
This is part one of my ten-step journey from Representational art into Abstraction. The first step is to explore making shapes.
A Language of Abstraction
I’ve designed a ten-step programme to move my work from Representational art into Abstraction. I’m basically creating my own shorthand language and I’d like you to understand what I’m saying.
Learning the Art of Abstraction
Contrary to popular belief, making abstract art isn’t easy. It’s actually kind of hard. It can be likened to creating your own shorthand language. In this post, I share my reasons why I think, for me, it’s worth the effort.
The Anxious Urban Sketcher / Part Two
The battle for genuine expression as opposed to “self-conscious performance” continues as I develop my sketchbook practice.
Inside the mind of an Anxious Urban Sketcher / part one
As an artist inspired by architecture, I take up the challenge to capture my neighbourhood in my sketchbook. However, the hardest part is leaving the house.
The Need to Create
As a screenwriter I studied a lot about subtext in human behaviour and how it speaks for us. Most of us assume talking is everyone’s primary method of communication. So, if you don’t get to talk much, for whatever reason, does that leave you mute?
Seeing the world through anxiety
As my social phobic anxieties are being endorsed in the real world, how is this helping my creativity?
The Meaning of Black
The Abstract Expressionists used black to tell their stories. How will it help me tell mine?
Artist Identity: the things that I’m not.
If the whole world is a stage and everyone plays their part, what if you're not a performer? In this blog I explore the notion of how I might overcome anxiety in this performance culture.
