Studio News / September 2022
I've just completed a new Chime / cerulean crop edition for a collector in Canada. Courtesy of Avida Mohseni and the fabulous Avi Gallery in Ontario. I’ve spent a little while rebalancing the colours, and working on the colour profiles, so it has a little more vitality than before, quite a lot more in fact! Loving the new Fotospeed metallic lustre paper I’m experimenting with too, it seems really radiant in use.
XGen / EPC edition #21 dispatched
I'm just scribbling a quick note to say that edition #21 of my Print Club will be in the post today. I hope it'll brighten up your spring, with a blast of colour. That's certainly my intention for this piece!
I'll look forward to writing a longer email about the work, and the studio asap, but for today I just wanted to let you know that I'm packing and addressing the parcels this morning, so you can look out for the print in the mail.
XGen 2 / six new works on paper
I’ve spent the first few weeks of 2022 working on a new set of drawings, exploring and riffing on the energy contained within a simple X form.
XGen 2 / chromatic variations reference the underlying geometry used to generate the drawings, whilst simultaneously experimenting with colour and mark making, to work up the images into something a little more painterly than many of my previous editions have been.
XGen / TWO / initial colour studies
I’ve started work on a new series, the second of my XGen studies, that are exploring, and riffing on, the energy contained within a simple X form.
These latest drawings have taken on a few lessons from the Stellify 4 folded works that I made in December. In particular the idea of using colour blocks, or more specifically multiple coloured areas within a single study, as opposed to toning the whole image as a single more sculptural piece.
It’s an idea that gives a far more geometric feel to the final images, and maybe more punch?
XGen / maquette / EPC #18 / a new Print Club edition
XGen is about the potential energy created in a pair of crossed lines, an X, and I hope, explores that embedded or kinetic energy as it expands from the centre of the frame. As I worked on with the piece, it also seemed to me that there is, perhaps, some suggestion of the XY chromosome issues that are sparking a huge amount of fascinating debate in our society recently. I hope there’s a little poetry in the work too.