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

Interesting developments in Europe. www.compliancehub.wiki/france-aband...

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

[rewind] We Dance To Pray, 2013, acrylic on drywall, 9 x 13 feet Part of my 2013 exhibition, Presence, at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia, PA). I wanted to do something different with this wall space instead of putting another painting on it. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/timmcfar...

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

Alive inside, 2024, oil on linen, 30 x 24cm. The Winter Group Show continues at Molesworth Gallery, Dublin until 31 January, by appointment. I’m delighted to have five paintings included, this is one of them. molesworthgallery.com/exhibitions/...

In sleep, in dream song, the daylight ghosts are laid and trouble us no more. In silence nightlong a life’s debts are paid at the open door. 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' Peter Riley longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

A few pages from my 2025 sketchbooks — abstract sketches in marker and crayon. Always interesting to look back. #sketchbook #abstractart #visualart #lookingback

After a break of a couple of weeks, this small painting, Japanese Moon, is now complete. A few final collage elements were added to vary the surface and gently disrupt the composition. It now feels finished. #studiopractice #collage #quietpainting #slowart #paintingthoughts #geometricabstraction

“We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies.” A Conspiracy of Orphans: John Berger on impertinence: a mini zine with an excerpt from his book Confabulations (2016). Hand-collaged with typewriter text on cyanotyped paper. £2 + p&p jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/a-co... #zine #johnberger

Well after months if not years! I’ve dipped my typing finger back into the socials (apart from the odd post on insta). Life’s been too busy to be post all the intimate details but there will be a few updates here I hope. Anyway here’s some recent things some with words in them.

No…the other one… Bouziès Boats...by John Hoyland Following on from my last post something a little lighter (and back to painting) from my recent jolly to the East Coast. We were staying in a lovely property nestled deep in the Suffolk countryside (roughly half way from Framlingham to Saxmundham)…

'Now voyager — unmake, decentre yourself.' Selected pages from my zine You the Great Adventurer: collage meditations on moving through these times with joy, hope and togetherness. Dedicated to Joanna Macy. Print copies £4 + postage: jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/you-... #zines #collage

Matisse’s Head, White and Rose (1914) has been described as a “studio painting” — experimental, perhaps unsuccessful, or sits awkwardly alongside an artist’s signature works. I’ve been working on a couple of such paintings myself: oddities that probably belong only in the studio. #studionotes

Richard Eason - a supporter of Longbarrow Press for twenty years, and a good friend for thirty years - would have turned 52 today. A week after his death, I walked from Leeds to Goole, and thought of him. This is an account of the walking and thinking. longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere...

Researcher Rhiannon Bull from @uofgges.bsky.social is launching an appeal to gather short pieces of creative writing reflecting thoughts and feelings about climate change in Scotland. Interested in signing up? Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... @communitylandsc.bsky.social

We Are Worthy of Love 💙🐖 I made this cyanotype-print postcard as a love song to pig beings and a call for compassion for all animals. Printed on recycled card for sale at £1 per postcard, proceeds to Pigs in the Wood rescue centre! jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/we-a... #AnimalCompassion

It’s early days, but I’m making slow progress on a couple of new works. One is made up of stripes and a single diamond form; the other, an arrangement of diamonds and triangles. At this stage, I feel I’m still discovering their true natures. #geometricabstraction #comtemporaryabstractpainting

Work in progress. Working on a series of studies on paper. #geometricabstraction #comtemporaryabstractpainting