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I went along to this yesterday ☝️and a big shout out to @mikkmurray and @hedgesheffield for giving up his studio space and allowing a load of folk who sling coloured mud n stuff to take over his walls.
Details above and there's a couple of Saturdays/
64kb slice
Oil / canvas 30 x 25
2022

I was intrigued to find out the Pac Man avatar came about when a pizza slice shape was removed. This is one for all the negative spaces out there.
For every yin there's a yang
For every no there's a yes
For every
A3 coloured pencil drawing, from 'cover versions'. July 2025

Grew up with vinyl but like the cd scale for these drawings (this is 1:1 in scale). Presents itself as a nice scale object/merch. Compact, even..

Originally bought this in record format m
couple of a3 pencil drawings of some dead dragons in prep for a painting which might be called 'dead neon' and some stuff by Paolo and Piero.

in my last post I wanted to touch upon the notion of 2.0 or at least what that meant for me growing up in t
Cortina Suite

L to R

Granada 2.0
Cortina 1.6
Escort 1.4

All A3 oil on paper

#cube #rollthedice #seriousplay #reboot #tricolour #grandluxe #ghia 
#status #symbol
#winner #loser 
#lucky #fluffer
These oversized screwdrivers that have been driven hard into the pavements of Sheffield city centre are rife at the moment. 
Begs the question - how big must the screws be?

#stanley #sculpturepark
(left) graphic equaliser, oil/canvas, 30x25 
(right) conversation piece, oil/canvas, 30x25 

‘Simulcast’ a group exhibition curated by Ruth Heaton 👏 @rutheheaton and Sean Williams 👏 @swseanwilliams opens at Fronteer Gallery @fronteer_ar
Up your algorithms they say. Engage with the audience. Pose questions. Okay, he's one - What's your favourite triangle? Equilateral? Acute? Obtuse? Mine is the Bermuda, as represented above.

Answers on a postcard please (preferably from Florida, Ber
Marlborough Lite
oil canvas 152 x 152

The setting
This is from 2022/23. My first big painting since moving to Sheffield and coming out of the covid period. Several attempts at the work in London/Sheffield were binned but I stuck with this one and co
Friday shakedown on ‘Foodhall’ 👆

The trigger for this work came about whilst idly flicking through an art coffee table book and coming across a 17thC painting I’d forgotten about but had seen many years ago. In the Louvre hangs a
As many - ahem - nobody has asked I thought I’d give it a whirl charting the journey of a painting from early doors to becoming resolved.

Paint notes thus far. Most of last week was spent trying to get a grey backdrop right on this largish pai
..
Big brother incoming
oils on canvas'
80x80 and 152x122
Left one finished - 'mono/teckno'
#wip to the right muscling in and joining the arena - 'foodhall'

#fiftyshades of #grey and #colour
#wefadetogrey
#wefadetogrey
Northern Aurora(s) 1 / 2
#emerald #viridian
#ether #either
#send #refresh #delete
#oldtech #newtech
#lotech #hitech
#temporal
#numbertwo
Northern Aurora
40 x 30 #oil #canvas

Somewhere there’s a terrain.
Terrain that’s not necessarily obvious at first. 
But this is a liminal somewhere.
Somewhere between the natural beauty of the sky seen from the readymade framing device o
Dancing alone in Miami

And

Graphic equaliser

Both 30 x 25 #oil #canvas

If Piet Mondrian found himself watching re-runs of Miami Vice then turned to admire the hi res sunsets in GTA whilst listening to Giorgio Moroder there's a slim chance he migh
Last time out at Fondation Louis Vuitton I was helping install paintings by Cezanne, Manet and Seurat etc for the Courtauld Gallery so it raised a smile to see that I’m currently on the wall this time.
Here’s a photo of David Hockney and
#wip from the 
mono / techno series
#oil 80 x 80
#grey #mono #colour #degradê #technicolour
#dreamcoat
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Oil / canvas
2023 100 x 80

Funny business these small screens which have become central to modern living, requiring likes, subscribes,  validation, hearts etc. 
Here's a recent painting of an alternate solar system sky chart with b
Scrap of canvas destined for Monday morning bins but before it says tara it will provide source for ongoing painting:
Sin city / Noah's ark 

#rollthedice #gambler
#twobytwo
#whenthefunstopsstop