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make software-aided artworks and digital drawings. The end result is always a digital file which may be static or animated and can be printed or displayed on screen. Physical artwork is in the form of limited-edition prints. My figurative work all has a social comment element.
The main reason for doing this is investigative – finding out more about colour, shape and visual edges. I post regularly on artwork-related websites especially those that invite social interaction and comment, see
Where to Find My Work below. Thus I get to see what others are doing internationally in similar or related fields and this provides me with ideas and stimulation.
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y work is essentially an experiment in relative brightness, shape and colour identification, changing and simplifying shapes and colours to see about squeezing out some essence of what things look like and why. None of it is done with the aim of looking pretty for hanging on a wall, it is all essentially an experiment. Sometimes the outputs can look quite interesting and it is those that I make available for others to see and buy if they’d like to.
It’s all an investigation. I don’t know what makes a two-dimensional image have lasting power. I don’t suppose that anyone does, really. So I find it an intriguing field of study to follow.
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s subject preferences I absolutely love grunge, people going about their daily lives. For many years I have been a traveller, being alongside people on the streets and in buses, trains and ferries. My work tends to be figurative, since I like being with people, though abstract too, looking at the abstractions of what is round and about.
My outputs are quite varied in nature, they could be messy abstracts or images that look quite photorealistic, see see
Types of Artwork Outputs below. What they all are, is experiments.