New Fringe Open Art Exhibition Entries

The Old White Door
Acrylic On Canvas
16 x 12"

Fountain
Acrylic On Canvas
16 x 12"

     Well here they are as promised, the first of a selection of paintings i have completed over the last few months. These two in particular were exhibited alongside many others at the Fringe open art exhibition at the old Doncaster Art College in September. I was quite pleased to have my work exhibited and to become a member of the New Fringe.

New Paintings On The Way

     Over the next week i will be uploading my most recent paintings for your viewing pleasure. I hope to get hold of  a Tungsten light sometime in the near future so as not to be at the mercy of the weather when i need to photograph my art. Anyway this corner of my world is where all my completed paintings live until i can make a record them. Keep an eye out for my new stuff.    

Away too long

     I realise i have not updated this blog in some months and will be correcting that from now on with regular updates. So what am i working on right now. Well take a look at those two prints above. The tree with the moon is one that i plan to add colour to, blue for the moon, while the one with the house will just a black. Well thats all for now but expect more from me very soon.

Pillars and Posts

Post 1
Acrylic on paper
14 x 10"

     This is the first in series of pillars and posts i am working on. More to come soon. On these paintings i have decide to leave in the construction lines to reinforce their architectural nature.

INK 2012

     Here are some lino prints i have been working on for the past week. The two smaller ones below are for Staffordshire University's INK 2012 exhibition. I hope to have a third entry ready for printing by Friday and will be making ten editions of each of them. They're mini prints measuring twelve centimetres squared which was good practice for me as i haven't made prints since my art foundation course.

Watersoluble Graphite experiment

Dancer in Red
Watercolour on Paper

     This painting was an experiment using two types of wet media. I used watersoluble graphite to draw the more abstract parts of the drawing and again to add tone to the dancers body. Though the graphite is watersoluble, its quite water resistant when dry and watercolour washes can be applied right on top of it without fear of contamination.

Green Door



Green Door
Watercolour on paper
11.7 x 8.3"

     I wanted to do some more architectural images and so have started to paint things like doorways and columns. This is the first one i have completed so far. More to come soon. It is also different from my usual work as there is no abstraction with the focus being on the design.