For the #BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant theme, here's a small #expressionist #abstract #acrylic #artwork Cross Purposes (2025) Acrylic on paper 12 x 12 cm #art #acrylics #blue #orange

For #MountainMonday an abstracted recollection of a #Scottish #Munro outing Pap of Glencoe (2025) Acrylic and pen on canvas 50x 50 cm #Acrylics #AbstractLandscape #Art #Abstract #Scotland

Recently completed Portal (2025) Acrylic, pen, pencil & charcoal on canvas 60 x 60cm #AbstractApril #Acrylics #AbstractArt #ArtYear #AbstractLandscape

A #Journey to the truth, in homage to the great Colin Dexter and his #InspectorMorse #Oxford detective novels: The Jewel That Was Ours (2025) Acrylic and paint pen on canvas 50 x 60 cm #AbstractLandscape #BlueSkyArtShow #Acrylics #AbstractArt #Cityscape #AbstractPainting #ArtYear

Seaborne (2025) Acrylic and pen on canvas 50 x 60 cm #AbstractLandscape #Seascape #Acrylics #AbstractArt #Art #ArtYear

Storms over Jerez (2025) Acrylic, pen and charcoal on paper 45 x 30cm #Acrylics #AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #Art #ArtYear

The tallest human-made mound in Europe, constructed over 4300 years ago, lies #abandoned and enigmatic in the #Wiltshire countryside near #Avebury: Silbury Hill (2023) Acrylic on canvas 50 x 60cm #BlueSkyArtShow #UNESCO #England #Prehistory #AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #FebruArty #Acrylics

I do occasionally use #turquoise, here paired with #magenta for an abstract view of a bike race, probably the Giro (roll on May!): Peloton (2024) Acrylic on card 17 x 11cm #Acrylics #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #FebruArty

For #ArtYear and #FebruArty, painted a couple of years back to celebrate hope that goes with a change of direction in the #Amazon Regeneration (2023) Acrylic on paper 25 x 25cm #Rainforest #Brasil #Acrylics #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt

This is for #MountainMonday and possibly qualifies as pretty rough and rugged for #SensoryArt too: Alta Montaña (2024) Acrylic on canvas 60 x 60cm (private collection, UK) #FebruArty #Acrylics #AbstractLandscape #Mountain #AbstractArt #Art

I hope I can be forgiven this near #Monochromatic just-completed painting for #BlueSkyArtShow. First Meditations (2025) Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100cm #Coltrane #Architectural #FebruArty #AbstractLandscape #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #ArtYear #Acrylics #Crimson

Channelling my love of Nicolas de Staël's paintings for this small #Orange #FebruArty offering A Day at the Beach (2024) Acrylic on paper 15 x 11cm #Heat #Summer #AbstractLandscape #Painting #AbstractArt #ArtYear #Acrylics #DeStael

Unsure if this surprisingly peaceful for #crimson painting is sweet enough for #SensoryArt. This is my first medium-scale artwork of 2025 in prep for a July exhibition. Immaterial World (2025) Acrylic on canvas 60 x 80cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #FebruArty #ArtYear #Art #OliveGreen

I don't have much for the #Rings theme of #FebruArty apart from this experiment in generating depth sensations from hue Teem (2024) Acrylic on paper 20 x 6cm #Chromostereopsis #Shadow #Red #Blue #AbstractArt #Art

For the #Reflections theme of #BlueSkyArtShow, a recollected view across Loch Lubnaig in the #Scottish #Highlands from the A84 road Loch Lubnaig (2024) Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50cm #Scotland #Mountain #Loch #Trossachs #AbstractLandscape #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #Art #FebruArty

Here's a recent gouache and ink vignette for #ArtYear and #FebruArty Rust Belt (2025) Acrylic gouache and pen on card 17 x 11cm #Industry #AbstractLandscape #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #Art

For #FebruArty #Purple, a loosely #Geology inspired abstract: Garnetiforous (2024) Acrylic on board 30 x 30cm #Rock #Garnet #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #Art #Metamorphic

For the #Fuzzy day of #SensoryArt and #FebruArty, one of my #Irrepressible series: Signal / Noise (2024) Acrylic on card 13 x 13cm #HopeNotFear #Expressionist #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #Art #Orange #Yellow #Black #Gestural

For the #light theme of #BlueSkyArtShow and #FebruArty Lemonlight (2024) Acrylic on card 21 x 13cm #Theatre #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Expressionist #Purple #Yellow

For the final day of the very enjoyable and inspiring #JanuArty, something angular, spiky, and ice-breaking. Tipping Point (2024) Acrylic mixed media on paper 26 x 36cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Expressionist #Orange #Blue #Melting #ClimateEmergency

Day 30 of #JanuArty is #Green, so here's something looking forward to #Spring Primaveral (2024) Acrylic mixed media on canvas 61 x 61cm (private collection, UK) #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Expressionism #Orange

For day 29 of #JanuArty a curvy tri-colour experiment in acrylic deglazing. The title (somewhat randomly but fittingly) comes from #IvoPapazov's frenetically marvellous 1989 album. Orpheus Ascending (2024) Acrylic on paper 30 x 30cm #AbstractArt #Art #Expressionist #Red #Yellow #Blue

For day 28 of #JanuArty here's a small abstract composition showing a jumble of #flat blocks with an irregular one perched precariously Blue Erratic (2024) Acrylic ink on paper 12 x 12cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Erratic #Ink #Blue #Red #Expressionist

For red day of #JanuArty here's an artwork inspired by my time as a researcher in #Auditory processing: Red Cognition (2023) Matt and gloss enamel on paper 20 x 30cm #AbstractArt #Art #Red #Green #Brainstem #Cortex #Activation

For #JanuArty #Broken day, a painting inspired by the ongoing eruptions in #Reykjanes, #Iceland, where the mid-Atlantic plate boundary rises above sea level. Reykjanes (2024) Acrylic on canvas 61 x 61cm #AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #Art #Geology

For the #pattern theme of #BlueSkyArtShow a meditative piece inspired by the painting process of #AgnesMartin. 162 Squares Acrylic ink on board 30 x 30cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Squares #Grid #Ink

The alt-text explains why this fits the #Opposites theme of #JanuArty Strata (2023) Acrylic on paper 20 x 25cm (private collection, UK) #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Geology #Orthogonal #CrossSection #NaphtholRed #CobaltTeal #Liquitex

Something for #Monochrome #JanuArty day. The cover of Georges #Pérec's novel 'Life: A user's manual' may have provided an unconscious inspiration. Mind Palace (2025) Acrylic gouache and pen on card 11 x 17cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #BurntSienna #Liquitex #Architecture

For #JanuArty #Happy day, an abstract composition channelling #Synaesthesia: Symphony No. 1 (2023) Acrylic ink and paint on card 11 x 17cm #Expressionism #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Orange #Blue #Froth

For the #primary day of #JanuArty, red and blue acrylic ink, overpainted with yellow ochre to create a range of hues. The title isn't very timely, but maybe this will be a #bluesky dawn. Blue Dawn (2024) Acrylic ink and paint on card 24 x 32cm #AbstractArt #Art #Blue #Yellow #Ink

Here's an underwater contribution to the #liquid theme of #JanuArty: Seamount (2023) Acrylic on paper 50 x 70cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Blue #Green #Red #Depth

For the #yellow themed #JanuArty something which I hope warms the visual cortex at least: Winter Sun (2025) Acrylic on card 11 x 17cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #AbstractLandscape #MattMedium #Expressionist #Black #Orange

Sadly I don't have any animal pics for #JanuArty apart from this #expressionist #jellyfish resulting from an early experiment into illusory depth-from-colour: Medusa and friends (2022) Acrylic on board 20 x 30cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Orange #Blue #Seaweed #Chromostereopsis

For #plant day of #JanuArty an #enamel green and red swirly composition inspired by artworks of Franciszka #Themerson at the #Whitechapel: Green Entanglement (2023) Enamel paint on paper 20 x 30cm (private collection, Scotland) #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Expressionist

For the tool theme of #JanuArty, the essential ingredients of a fresh canvas (and painters' paralysis) #StretcherBars #Gesso #Mallet #Stapler #StretchingPliers #CornerWidgets #CottonDuck #RussellAndChapple

For the #pink day 11 of #JanuArty, a memory of climbing the #Munro Sgòr Gaoith in the #Scottish #Cairngorms with views across to the muscular pinky granites of #Braeriach. Pink Granite (2025) Acrylic paint and pen on card 34 x 26cm #AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #Scotland

For the #BlueSkyArtShow, #layers of #strata and #history inspired this #AbstractLandscape painting of the #Etemenanki #Ziggurat (now in ruins) in #AncientBabylon by the #Euphrates river. Etemenanki (2023) Acrylic on canvas 50 x 60cm #AbstractArt #CobaltTeal #NaphtholRed #Liquitex

Not entirely #blue for day 10 of #JanuArty -- but #magenta has a lot of blue too (is my excuse): Reef (2024) Acrylic on card 11 x 13cm #Art #AbstractArt #Coral #Gestural #Seaweed #Algas

I've always loved the raw materiality of paint surfaces when viewed up close. For the #texture theme of day 9 #JanuArty here's an abstract inspired by minerals in rocks Slice (2024) Acrylic paint, ink and medium on card 11 x 17cm #Art #AbstractArt #RawUmber #PaynesGray #Liquitex #Ink

For day 8 of #JanuArty here's an abstract composition with various tonal levels in predominantly orange and blue. Mirage (2023) Acrylic on paper 50 x 70cm (private collection, Scotland) #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Orange #Blue #Desert #Sand #Sky #WarmTones #Shimmer

For the #marks theme of day 7 of #JanuArty: Bebop (2023) Mixed acrylic media on canvas 50 x 80cm (private collection, UK) #Expressionist #Bebop #Jazz #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Orange #Music #Improvisation

For the #Space theme of day 6 of #JanuArty: Escape Velocity (2024) Acrylic on card 13 x 13cm #AbstractPainting #Expressionist #AbstractArt #Black #Orange

For the #light theme of #JanuArty day 5 the title comes from a track by #Magazine The cold light of day Pours out of me Leaving me in black And so healthy The Light Pours Out of Me (2023) Acrylic on greetings card stock 17 x 11cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Ethereal #Yellow #Blue

Here's a bicolour painting for the #shadow theme in day 4 of #JanuArty. The transparent printed vibe comes from the use of denim during deglazing. Shadow Boxing (2023) Acrylic paint on greetings card stock 15 x 11cm #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Denim #Deglazing #Liquitex

A contribution for the #shapes theme of day 3 of #JanuArty: Hinterland (2023) Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50cm (private collection, Scotland) #AbstractLandscape #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #Art #Yellow #Blue

A #Fauve inspired view across to #Tighnabruaich from the #Scottish Isle of #Bute for colour-themed day 2 of #JanuArty Kyles of Bute (2022) Acrylic on canvas 30 x 20cm #AbstractLandscape #IsleOfBute #Scotland #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art

Happy new year to everyone! There's something about the pink scratchiness that dominates this early exploration of split complementaries that makes it a favourite for day 1 of #JanuArty. Hanging Gardens (2022) Acrylic on paper 50 x 70cm #AbstractPainting #AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #Art

Friday Night, Saturday Morning (2022) Acrylic on paper 70 x 50cm #TerryHall #Specials #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #AbstractLandscape #Art

Sad Cypress (2023) Acrylic on card 17 x 11cm (private collection, Scotland) #AbstractLandscape #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Art #Shakespeare #TwelfthNight #Liquitex #Magenta