Since 2019 I’ve been reading various books which all seem to circle around the themes and ideas that make up my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. This will be the thirtieth blog post I’ve written that is tagged as Acid Renaissance, and in many of the previous ones I’ve mentioned books…
Although I only posted this photograph on my site and social media yesterday, it was actually taken at a photoshoot back in the autumn of 2020, in the window between the first and second Covid lockdowns in the UK. The original idea for Our Lady of the Orchard dates back further - the earliest…
My creativity and inspiration have been very limited of late. Sometimes this just happens, and at other times there’s a definite correlation with what’s going on in the world. In this particular case I strongly suspect the latter. While we’re certainly not suffering anywhere near the…
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I’m a visual artist, so this brief piece about Mark Fisher’s draft introduction to his planned book Acid Communism (sadly never to be realised due to his premature death) examines the concept from an artist’s perspective. As an immediate warning to the curious, I want to make clear that…
I wrote about the first drawing in this series-inside-a-series back in early August, and I wrote about some of the props and references later that month. Since then I’ve finished the second and third drawings in the arc. The next drawing, Study of a Figure in the Court of Queen…
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A couple of weeks ago in my last blogpost I wrote about my plan to make a number of Studies from the Court of Queen Mab, which will form an arc or mini-series as part of my Acid Renaissance series, and introduced the first drawing from this arc. This drawing, like the others I am planning,…
My original plan was a very large scale, multi-figure, drawing of the Court of Queen Mab, but I simply don’t have the room - I’d need a large studio space to attempt something like that. So instead my amended plan is to make five or seven “Studies from the Court of Queen Mab”, which…
I suddenly realised I haven’t updated this for a few months, and while I haven’t been especially prolific I have actually completed some more Acid Renaissance artwork, so… Sketch for “The Lotus Eaters” Sketch for “The Lotus Eaters” came together over June, and it’s…
Following on from April’s blog post, lockdown continues to force my Acid Renaissance series of artwork into different directions. Photography has been temporarily abandoned, as has in-person life-drawing. Instead I’m currently concentrating on drawing using photographs of life-models (or…
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My plan for December 2019 and the first three months of 2020 was to take Acid Renaissance into new territory. It would be brighter and more hopeful, and start to signal some potential radical futures. Sometimes, though, things just don’t turn out how you expect. Instead there emerged a…