Art

I bought these take away containers ages ago. On Friday night after a strong, fulfilling but busy week I grabbed a permanent marker and the 5 containers and made this.      

I’ve been collaging the laser cut squares I made from some acrylic works in 2015. They will have many adventures, but here is the first layer, which is purely laser cut squares glued together in a grid.          

The last time I  had my paints out was in January. Here it is September and I’m getting them out again! The still life with the Matisse-y wall paper was a half done piece that I jazzed up while playing with the Ironlak markers. I’m not that keen on it, I find it too tight, […]

Years ago I picked up this jigsaw in the street near my house in Newtown on one of my morning walks. I attached pieces of an ink drawing to the front, but then got stuck. they were so agreeable as just pieces. Finally i have turned some of them (I believe I have more somewhere) […]

These three small canvases (10x20cm ish), have been in my cupboard half done for more than a year. They just didn’t feel done. I gave them a coat of my new ironlak markers (as I do, now!), but the orange one wasn’t right. I added some purple to the laser cut circles, but it wasn’t […]

These photos of a vintage car (Zephyr) parked outside my home in Newtown in the early 2000s are not the first I’ve used. I have other similar collages, more or less controlled, on canvas. In my current quest to use all parts of my collage beast, I have attached these morsels to pieces of paper […]

My tiny city was looking a little prissy with its pinks and oranges and yellow. Last week’s adventure was to drip candle wax on it. This week I scraped back most of the wax on the roofs and then added some ink. It’s getting nicely grungy. As it turned out the white ink I had […]

Three part piece, attached to a piece of wood (because why not?). Each canvas is 10x10cm. The works were inspired by me buying some Ironlak paint markers this afternoon. In orange, turquoise and purple. (plus a 1mm one in a pale khaki green). They are such a pleasure to use. Each canvas has a single […]

From the laser cut squares made from old acrylic works on paper I have begun a series of collages. I bought the canvases earlier this year, and now I’m using my lovely offcuts. Both of the new works put me in mind of the cook’s river, where I work most mornings on the way to […]

I’m really pleased with how the wooden houses in this piece have come out. I have meant to get around to pulling them together, and my original idea was to make a jacob’s ladder, but in the past they haven’t worked out tight enough for me. And the fact is when I go to paint […]