Category: Art

I've got a commission for an explosion painting. The customer wants a bright yellow base with a rich plum and a dark blue exploded onto it. I am mixing the plum using Alizarin Crimson and French Ultramarine and I am using Prussian Blue for the dark blue. The base will be spectrum yellow. I am […]… Read more »

This is pretty light-hearted stuff. A local radio show asked me to be a phone guest because of my involvement in local street art. I have edited the show down so that this MP3 only contains the 20 minutes that were about graffiti. Only really covers the first couple of pages of the dummy's guide […]… Read more »

So I finished this piece today and I am bloody proud of it! It's called The Sensation of Adam (no prizes given for guessing which classical masterpiece this is an interpretation of). That is Adam you can see sitting down in the photo. He's the yogi who posed for the original reference material. I thought […]… Read more »

I painted this today. So what's it all about? Lets say some words... On the conceptual... With the subtle adjustment of scale between the hand and the head, I was hoping to evoke ideas relating to the power balance within a relationship. Hands and faces are two things we are incredibly attached to emotionally, often more […]… Read more »

I have just come back from a day painting at the Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Centre as part of their Inna Space festival. This piece is supposed to embody the sense of childish excitement that all staff feel just before a performance.… Read more »

I had a little dabble in the medium of woodcut print making last week. Using two offcuts of 12mm ply that I found near a building site and one of those 99 pence, red plastic cutting tools, I made this three-tone image of Chris Norton Walker. I love the roughness of it all; the visible […]… Read more »