2013-2014, quite a stressful year (both personally and professionally) where I discovered a certain catharsis to drawing. These drawings began as improvised reinterpretations of my dual compositions with visual influences coming from the Yin Yang symbol, Jungian archetypes, Surrealism and […]
I got a call from my brother to say that our mother was in hospital neat Luton, and not too well. She is 94 now, and with pneumonia having had a hip replacement, a long away from the sea, me […]
Firstly I will apologise for the disjointed nature of what you are about to read, I managed to stay in my studio until 11pm tonight so must be quick. I stole a really cheeky look around the National Gallery after […]
Biennial exhibition features more than 200 new and recent works on paper by international artists, with prices starting at £250.
As a colour blind artist (please get the sniggering out of the way now please) I have always predictably struggled with the application of colour to my drawings and it’s underlying theory (theory meaning philosophically as opposed the science of […]
Just a quick random post. I’m sure I’m not alone here in saying all I ever seem to see are people with necks craned and hunched over a smartphone – this unfortunately is an all too common sight in my […]
Whilst scrolling aimlessly through my Instagram page I had the thought that the throwaway society that we have now begun to live in has rubbed off on the way we choose to view art. Instead of picking up a book […]
The final blog post for the ‘Armchair Artist Residency’. The Beaney House of Knowledge and Art: The Front Room ‘Armchair Artist Residency’ blog. Blog number six, February 2014: In a cardboard box on a shelf in the museum storerooms there […]
A candid look at what happened after graduation from the safety of art school. As an art school graduate I was at one point part of the artworks system – albeit at undergraduate level. In wondrous naivety I used to […]
Blog number five of six. The Beaney House of Knowledge and Art: The Front Room ‘Armchair Artist Residency’ blog. Blog number five, January 2014: I was told that there was an ancient Egyptian mummified human head somewhere in the museum […]
This is blog number four of six: The Beaney House of Knowledge and Art: The Front Room ‘Armchair Artist Residency’ blog. Blog number four, December 2013: I’ve installed an exhibition of my drawings and sketchbooks in The Drawing Room at […]
This is the third of six blog posts written for my ‘Armchair Artist Residency’ at The Beaney House of Knowledge and Art, in Canterbury, a few years ago. The Beaney House of Knowledge and Art: The Front Room ‘Armchair […]
A few years ago I did a residency at ‘The Beaney’ in Canterbury and I posted six blog posts about my time there. These posts are no longer available on their website and so I thought I’d re-post them here. […]
Good evening and Happy New Year to you all. This blog entry will be slightly disjointed and I will jump from one thing to the next – apologies, I have a lot to share with you and not much time. […]
I had hoped to have posted about each of the pieces in the project individually but Christmas socialising, collecting work and struggles with photographic images saw my time just disappear this last week. So I have just put a gallery […]
Selected and curated by Kenton Lowe and Tom Penney of Blackshed Gallery in Robertsbridge the Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum Open is an eclectic and inclusive show, mounted from of a` broad range of content, technique and materials. Julian Rowe’s prosaically […]
For when there is dancing again is the first of a series of minimalist collages I have wanted to do for some time. One of them has been sitting waiting to be pasted and drawn/painted for over a year. Fear […]
“A Title Stolen From Another Painting” is more lyrical than my usual style, yet it has its origins in some black and white minimalist collages I did before I started this project. I wanted to make something less stark but […]
The title of And They Will Never Leave Me Behind, 32/50 Collages Before Christmas, relates back to number 26 in the series. It’s really a sketch for a much bigger work and I had been intending to try it out […]
Solve et coagula is the description of a stage in the alchemists’ process where everything that has gone before seems to pass away, to disappear into an unrecognisable fluid state then begin to reform into something completely new and original. […]
