“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: 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.
What screenwriting taught me about expressionist painting: the artist's search for meaning.
Incredibly, I was never taught self expression in art class, I learned it through screenwriting. In the first part of this series I share the importance of discovering the WHY in art.
From Anxiety to Boldness
Creativity requires bravery. Could anxiety be a sign-post to boldness? My guest blog for The London Screenwriters’ Festival
Digging Deeper
When I choose a subject matter for a painting it's because I've uncovered a narrative I emotionally connect to. This dialogue with the subject matter continues as I begin to paint.
Making an Exhibition
The value of exhibiting work publicly isn’t just exposure, it goes much deeper.
Art on the High Street
At the beginning of 2017 I said that I wanted to be creating large scale works by the end of the year. However, I never dreamed they would be *this* big!
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.