Some might call it art; I call it therapy.
Some might call it art; I call it therapy.
“Warhol’s Whistler”, Digital Print on Canvas, 60cm x 60cm. A friend asked me to print a large copy of “Whistler’s Mother” by James McNeill Whistler. I’ve been doing a lot of digital and screenprinting lately and decided to give Whistler’s Mother a bit of a Warhol treatment. I do wonder what Warhol would have got …
Acrylic on Canvas, 900×900 (enneaptych – 9 300×300 panels) The “Rorschach Test”, aka “Ink Blot Test” was (is) a tool used in Psychology, where the patient is asked to interpret some blots of ink on paper. the responses are then used to determine a persons state of mind. The ink blots used are random, and …
Acrylic and UV (and obviously some spray paint too) on canvas, each piece measures 250×500. Both roses were created at the same time, from the same canvas batch, with the same paints, and the same pigments. There are subtle differences, more fraternal than identical. Both carry the same meaning, though.
UV powder, UV Pigment, Acrylic, Poster Paint on Canvas. 250×500. I wanted to make a rose to go along with the original Mackintosh Rose. I have one more to do, to complete my intended set of three. The majority of the top panel is UV active and Glow powder. There is a smidge of paint …
Experiment with Cotton Rag Paper #3, Acrylic Paint and Heavy UV pigmentation. A3. There isn’t much describing required for this one – I wanted to see how the paper would cope under pressure. I mixed and blended a few paints direct on the paper. It coped very well – hardly any distortion while the paint …
House paint, Acrylic and UV pigments on Canvas, 500×800. What do you get when you cross the “Cesar Romero” and “Heath Ledger” portrayals of “The Joker” in Batman – with Margaret Thatcher? A tommy gun wielding nutcase, intent on cleansing the country of all that publically owned industry. To be viewed above and to the …
Acrylic and home-brewed UV pigment on canvas. 150×200. Inspired by the Art-Nouveau works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, this is a modern take on the classic Mackintosh Rose design. Under normal lighting, the piece is intended to look like a naive but modern interpretation. When bombarded with UV light, however, the true nature of the piece …