“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.”
The sale that changed everything
When my largest painting was displayed in my local coffee shop and a stranger saw it, wanted it and bought it, it changed everything for me. Read more to find out why.
August - Painting Music (Pt Four)
Expressing the emotion of music with paint. Combining all of my expression experiments so far, I complete my first "Painting Music" canvas.
February - Painting Music (Pt Three)
For the second exercise in my Painting Music series, I follow artist Paul Klee's guidance to create a very structured foundation to my piece.
When will I feel like an artist?
It's been two years since I quit screenwriting and became an artist, but it hasn't been an easy transition.
Layers of Work
During my Year of Expression, I’ve been creating a number of personal canvases over a period of time. Watch the progress of one piece expressing my emotional response to my work life.
My Mind in Pictures
I track my emotional state of mind over the course of a month with four paintings on one canvas. See the evolution of my "Mind" canvas.
Four Paths to Expression
I have canvases that contain weeks of hidden expressed emotion, layer upon layer, some small glimpse of each preceding day surviving, a frustrating daily battle of trying to answer the question "what am I trying to do here?"
February - Painting Music (pt two)
They say trying something new is exciting. It's also extremely uncomfortable. I face more battles as I follow in Jackson Pollock's footsteps and attempt to paint the motion of music.
February - Craft: Composition for Emotional Impact
Why is composition so important to artists? Because we want to control and manipulate you *mwa-haha*
February - Painting Music (Part one)
Inspired by artists Delaunay, Klee, Kandinsky and Pollock, I make my first attempt to spontaneously express the emotion of music in a painting.
February - Why Did Kandinsky Paint?
With the birth of photography, modern artists sought to justify their work beyond realism and express their own unique way of seeing the world. This week I attempt to find my own answers to these questions.
Making Bad Art
I had big plans to deliver some great art in January. It was going to be lovely. However, I didn't envisage creating with a battle going on in my head.
January - An Introduction to Expression
The Abstract Expressionist artists of the 20th century were the first to place value in painting an emotion as a subject matter and rebelled against image-based work. In this introduction to my year of expression, I look at why this movement is so important to me.