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As with the gallery page, click on the thumbnails or the arrows to navigate the selection of images.

 

The layers, build and textures are really what makes this painting special to me as it shows the post urban neo industrial abstract expressionism that merges in the viewers eye to create a somewhat traditional portrait, so please do click on some of the thumbnails :) 

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‘Taking Stock’ 

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Self Portrait - February 2019. Acrylics on canvas. 1210 x 920mm.​​

 

Primarily the painting was completed using acrylics, but in an impulsive decision to attempt to ensure that the random nature of life played a part in styling this piece, I chose to use only what I could find around my house and garage (not the studio). The assembled paints consisted of some crazy (and conservative) house paints, some twenty year old t-shirt paints, a few tubes of children’s acrylics, some now obsolete tins of leather repair paints and my favourite - the last dregs of a twenty litre tin of transparent acrylic decking stain that dries with a lovely body and build. A similar approach was taken when gathering implements to apply the paints - rewarding me with house painting brushes and dish cleaning sponges from which I fashioned all that I needed.

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