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Old school debonair
Oily stuff on paper 

#studio #wall
#sketch for #canvas
#oil #paper
#vaguely 
#niven ish
English pastoral (a study in yellow ochre, cadmium yellow and burnt umber) 

#Oil on A3 #paper

I reached for the stars, following planets like Joseph Albers, Sean Scully, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis for guidance, but got lost somewhere along the w
Alright Mr.Demille, I'm ready for my close up (cheers duck๐Ÿ‘)

Low lying fruit
Oil on paper
A3
Today, right now, so fresh, hot of the press, not dry, yeah, relevant, contemporary as... oh, it's dry now.

#yesterdays #news
#paper #oil
#emerald #vermil
Lemon logo loco
Oil canvas
60*60 cm

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Simulcast II

Big shakes to @rutheheaton and @swseanwilliams for doing the do๐Ÿ‘

"Hot on the heels of Simulcast I in Sheffield June 25 comes Simulcast II bringing together a second i
Have a go hero (4 kilobyte style)

Oil stick on A3 paper
Study for painting *dead neon*
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Old tech vs old tech

Think
Joseph Albers +
Carl Andre equivalent +
Helio Oiticica +
Hirst spot paintings +
Richter colour charts +
Atari 2600

Give it all a
Lemon logo loco
And
Mono/techno

60 cm sq and 80 cm sq
Both oil on canvas 
Both ongoing

#stuff #doomscrolling #logo #trademark #graphicdesign #typefacedesign #grids #cones #cubes #spheres #arthistory #landscapepaintings #note to #self, remove #maski
Fridays filth, work in progress 
Acrylic on board, 80 x 60

Last year went to Florence, yes your Duomo is amazing and your Pontormo fantastic but I liked very much the side streets with your crumbly walls adorned with stickers, tags and graffiti. 
A
Two studies of boxing and Sheffield royalty, Johnny Nelson MBE.
50x40 and 40x30 both acrylic.

When I met Johnny late 2023 he had recently received his MBE and was in the process of setting up a charity to help families/communities in the Sheffield
#pileon 
Examples of #coloured #mud on #canvas
#rainbow #colours (but not necessarily in that order)
Green T, oil on canvas, 152 x 252, 2025

How paintings come about and how they can change midcourse keeps the game forever interesting.

Starting point.
A T-shirt worn by a friend’s son reminded me of an American style tee and in this instanc
2 more portraits from the NPG and where the photograph has been instrumental.

Amy Winehouse by Marlene Dumas
Dumas showing us how to make a stunning and poignant (posthumous) portrait using found imagery.

(2 details of) Sir David Webster by Davi
Cover versions of some heads and a few failed ones featuring a cake and a woman standing on one leg. 

All coloured pencil on A4 / A3

#light #bleed #island
#david #mick #grace
#cd #cdcollection
#pencildrawing
#cover #coverversion
#talkingheads #roll
Sean Williams takes a leap of faith every time he invites artists to submit work for the ‘micro exhibitions’ on the Prosaic wall. He didn’t ask for a specific piece and I didn’t know what the other 2 artists, Kate Whateley and
Tricolour / oil canvas / 25x30

In one episode of the Simpsons, Homer has free rein designing a car. He borrows and takes all his fave bits from automobile history and designs what he believes to be the ultimate car. Theres a German word which comes
happy snaps from the NPG

1 a striking Bronze mask of Francis Bacon by Clive Barker 1969

2 Neil MacGregor by Wolfgang Tillmans and David Beckham by Sam Taylor-Johnson
A playful curation of two very different British cultural behemoths.

3 David
Whistlestop big smoke visit, jumped into NPG, these are the ones that grabbed attn in the current portrait award

(Hopefully) In correct order: 
@simonthomasbraiden 
@joshuawaterhouse 
@cassandramahoneypainter
@moiracameronn 
@archie.franks 
@martyn2
I went along to this yesterday โ˜๏ธ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/
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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