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…
Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines is the latest piece in my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. It’s a drawing made in Sanguine pencil (and some white pencil) measuring 760mm × 560mm, and yes, in terms of medium and lighting it’s unlike the previous pieces of artwork in this series.…
“If living in a new weird ontology is the only way for people to keep living, what do we want to keep of ourselves?” — Elvia Wilk, Toward a Theory of the New Weird This single sentence has been reverberating around my head all morning. It describes one of the underlying themes…
I’ve been thinking lately about woods and meadows and the edges of lakes, places of importance in my own personal mythology that feed into my artwork. So far in my Acid Renaissance series these places have only manifested at a distance, distilled into human figures as genii locorum, spirits…
In a recent blogpost Ellen Rogers wrote of her current Gnosis project: It’s taken me 4 years to try and articulate what this project is about, but I felt like I was repeatedly going back to square one… Until recently all I really knew was that I was blindly following a feeling that…
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It’s been a month since my last update on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork, and as I mentioned in that post I wasn’t planning on doing any artwork for the project over August because I had too many other things on and needed to “recharge” anyway. The Delaware Road: Ritual & Resistance…
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Being the latest of a (now traditionally unpunctual) series of updates on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. The Dream Eaters I mentioned the Dream Eaters in my last update, but I’m mentioning them again because I’ve now got the set of Dream Eaters A5-sized postcards printed and…
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Prompted by some idle musing on Twitter the other day: The photographic elements of my Acid Renaissance series could be seen as frozen moments from a strange spot-lit performance - part play, part dance, part ritual - from which you (the viewer) must infer the wider narrative. I’ve never…
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