This was drawn on an iPad. I am currently working on  a project all about images of fish. 

This image is very large about 1.5m x 1.2m it is a mono print made by inking up a formica table top and printing on photographic background paper. I used three tables and I am afraid you can see the lines where the tables join. This was based on a still life by Goya. One of his rare still life paintings.

Positive Negative Energy

This video is  based on drawings of the electric substation at Eastbourne they were made on polythene sheeting with electrical tape.  


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Making a cliche verre....

Pylon 2013

This is a drawing on glass which has been smoked over a candle flame. The brief is positive negative.  I will expose light sensitive paper using it as a kind of film.  

Ring Binder 

Ringbinder rings on a glass sheet were the basis for an cliche verre- I like the way the shadows move behind the little circles. I have been looking at the work of Eva Hess who did a lot of drawings of circles with ink and charcoal. I have yet to expose the plates so watch this space.

Still life in parcel tape

Still Life in Tape 2013

Working on positive and negative, sections of paper are removed to reveal the black paper beneath. Electrical tape, parcel tape (sometimes in layers) and transparent papers are used to reveal the levels of tone. I like the blue tones in the original set up. Anyone know where I can get blue parcel tape?

Positive and negative impressions

Negative Radio 2013

The impression left by the radio on the velvet box on which it stood makes a strange image. It still suggests an electronic component but there is also something ghostly and X-ray about it. 

The circular marks were left by cups which where left on the box prior to the radio being sited there. 

Carpet Drawing

Luxury Red-bull 2013 

Working on the idea of negative and positive, I  compared contemporary luxury with ancient living. I still wonder which would be the positive and which the negative.

The image is a copy of one of the Lascaux cave paintings, it is drawn into the  pile of the carpet using a palette knife. 
The initial photographic image was boringly beige.  Using only levels to create the colour in photoshop  gave the resultant image, which is coincidentally  similar in colours to the original cave painting.