Working over an old painting and using its geometric composition as a starting point, I add a series of triangular forms. Gradually, a new arrangement emerges. #studiopractice #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #recycling #collage #quilt #art #painting

I sometimes treat the painted fragments of canvas I collage with much like fabric, ripping them and incorporating their frayed edges. It softens the geometry and although there is symmetry, it remains imperfect. #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #recycling #collage #quilt #art #painting

I dismantled the collages I was working on yesterday and started afresh. I think I've arrived at a good place with the new work—perhaps it will survive this time. #studiopractice #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #recycling #collage #quilt #art #painting

Recycling discarded pieces of canvas, I improvised this makeshift composition. Beginning with a circular form at its center, I gradually introduced triangular elements, allowing the work to evolve organically as the composition took shape. #recycling #collage #quilt #art #painting #studiopractice

Primary Cyan, Viridian Green, Paynes Grey, Raw Umber, Titanium White, Primary Yellow, Mars Red. Untitled (250526), acrylic and collage on canvas board. #art #painting #studiopractice #quietpainting #geometricabstraction

A layered grid—a loose geometry. #art #painting #studiopractice #quietpainting #geometricabstraction

Get your cup of tea ready, we launch tomorrow! At noon, we open the digital archive and launch the exhibition. Stories stitched together. Voices held with care. A community legacy shared. We hope you’ll come away in with us. Byres Community Hub, Glasgow 12pm, 19 May - 12pm, 22 May #ComeAwayIn

The beautiful community archive from @povertytruthscot.bsky.social is now live! edin.ac/49od8sc 'Come away in' and visit the archive to learn of the innovative work of The Poverty Truth Community over the past 15 years, based on relationships & care, and centred on lived experience.

The interplay of pattern and form, together with contrasting matt and reflective textures across the surface. Two recent studies on paper. #art #painting #workonpaper #studiopractice #gometricabstraction

New work on paper, 16"x12". #art #painting #workonpaper #studiopractice #gometricabstraction

New work on paper, 16"x12". #art #painting #workonpaper #studiopractice #gometricabstraction

A new study in the current series, acrylic on paper, 297x420mm. #art #painting #workonpaper #studiopractice #gometricabstraction

4 studies in a series, each one acrylic on paper, 297x420mm. #art #painting #workonpaper #studiopractice #gometricabstraction

Today's study on paper #art #painting #workonpaper #studiopractice #gometricabstraction

Today's #workonpaper paper. #art #painting #studiopractice #geometricabstraction

Today's #workonpaper paper. #art #painting #studiopractice #geometricabstraction

Works on paper. #art #painting #workonpaper #studiopractice #geometricabstraction

A selection of new studies on paper. #art #painting #workonpaper #studiopractice #geometricabstraction

Pattern and form compete, shifting across the shallow picture space. #art #painting #studiopractice #quietpainting #geometricabstraction

A layered grid—a rectangular piece of coloured canvas framing a missing circular form at its centre—both obscures and reveals a loose geometry. #art #painting #studiopractice #quietpainting #geometricabstraction

A recent study on paper. Acrylic and pencil on 130gsm acid free paper, 11.7"x16.5". #art #painting #studiopractice #quietpainting #geometricabstraction

Colours and forms come and go as layers accumulate. Time, an essential variable, allows the painting to grow and find itself. #art #painting #paintingthoughts #studiopractice #quietpainting

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A painting of layers—hidden and revealed. Formality undermined by the irregular and the awkward. #art #painting #paintingthoughts #studiopractice #quietpainting

The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention. ~Donald Barthelme #workonpaper #art #painting

Creativity is breaking out of established patterns to look at things in a different way. ~Edward de Bono #sketchbook #art #painting #artist

"Creativity is contagious, pass it on." ~Albert Einstein

"one thinks with one's words, with one's hands, with brush and paint the idea is not behind the words or behind the painting but is in the words and the painting." ~ Merleau-Ponty #quietpainting #slowart #paintingthoughts

Day Three. I'm currently transitioning from dairy to oat milk. Just wondering how long it will be before I don't notice something's different. Anyone out there had a similar experience?

It’s strange how a picture comes together. Sometimes the seeds of an idea are sown, and it can take years before they blossom into something concrete. #studiopractice #quietpainting #slowart #paintingthoughts

“Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication." 🎨 American abstract expressionist #BarnettNewman was #BOTD 29 January 1905. #Art #Painting

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8 times 8 stories University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU 21 Mar 2025 - 8 Jun 2025

“Dangerous Drinking Water”, 2025, acrylic and felt on canvas, 12x12”. . #seanmontgomery #seanmontgomeryartist #art #contemporaryart #canadianartist #hobocode

Beautiful work by @beckyyazdan.bsky.social

160 x 140 cm oil/canvas

#UrbanGaze I made a mini photo zine of pictures I have taken around my east Bronx neighborhood. It's available on my Ko-fi as a digital download (link in my bio). #eastcoastkin #zinesters #zines #zinesky #photography #photographersofbluesky #bronx #thebronx #nyc #newyorkcity

This looks really interesting, from @draftanddrawn.bsky.social

I spent the afternoon looking at art in Birmingham, including the Mali Morris exhibition at IKON gallery. It was good to get lost for a while in the texture of her pigments.

Such beautifully vibrant work by the wonder painter Mali Morris. #contemporarypainter #colour #contemporaryart

The final group of the Brisons Auction Fundraiser…(for now) Another six works for the Fundraising Auction for Brisons Veor - the wonderful artists residency perched on the very tip of Cape Cornwall and undergoing a much needed renovation and upgrade - to see it fit for the predations of climate!…

A few more cardboard shell-likes…

If you know any young people (13–19 years old) please encourage them to do this — it's a great programme. I'm one of the judges and those shortlisted will come to the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social for a day of workshops!

I was asked the other day how I felt about a new painting I’d just finished. All I could think to say was that I was grateful it had set me along a new path—a step on a journey (perhaps that’s all individual paintings are for the maker?). Let me know your thoughts. #paintingthoughts #studiopractice

TENDER — my word for 2026 Image: cyanotype print made with an acetate stencil Thinking of Laurie Anderson & Lou Reed’s rules for living: don’t be afraid, get a good bullshit detector, be really, really tender. What's guiding you for the year ahead? #cyanotype #aspiration #tender

Animal Journaling Prompts poster zine 🌿 Made for our Creative Journaling Club at my local library, now freely available online. For anyone curious about human–animal relationships through journaling + making. Download: archive.org/details/anim... Printable A4 version — DM me. #MoreThanHuman #zine

At the weekend, looking through a stack of works on paper from the past 7 years, and I began to see them with fresh eyes. I noticed certain qualities I'd perhaps overlooked before, and this motivated me to begin working on some new studies. Untitled, acrylic on paper, 297x420mm. #paintingthoughts

hyperallergic.com/beer-with-a-... There's a great quote by artist Michael Berryhill in this excellent article. #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting