'CONCRETE TRILOGY' DEBUTS IN 'BEST OF BIRMINGHAM' 2018

Timed to coincide with Birmingham's inaugural Design Festival 2018, and the opening of furniture manufacturer Allermuir's design show-house in the Jewellery Quarter, the 'Best of Birmingham' show was hosted by the Birmingham Architectural Association, and curated by Mark Kelly and the team at Gensler's Birmingham office.

Featuring myself plus other artists from the Midlands, the exhibition was held during an uncharacteristically hot June ( by UK standards ). 

CONCRETE TRILOGY in the bar of the rooftop event space, below.

The final part of the CONCRETE TRILOGY ( below ) , may still be a work-in-progress, and subject to alteration once the exhibition is taken down.

My artwork was featured in the beautiful rooftop bar in the Allermuir Building in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. Opening Night, below...

...and then two weeks later on presentation night, which happened to be on the evening of the Summer Solstice, the weather was still uncharacteristically Mediterranean...

Below: 9pm June 21st, Birmingham Skyline, taken from the roof of the Allermuir Building.

WORK IN PROGRESS [ cont'd from 23rd January ]

As-Yet-Untitled, Acrylic On Canvas, 60cm x 60cm.

WORK IN PROGRESS NOV 2017

It's been a while since I've posted anything. The reason for that, is that I've had two other projects on the go simultaneously, so this painting has been on the backburner since the summer. It's the second part of a trilogy, and since I restarted a couple of weeks ago, progress has been pretty brisk. That can only mean one thing: I'm about to do something to it that will take months of correcting ( at least, that's what usually happens when things seem to be going well ).

Acrylic On Canvas, 60cm x 60cm, 2017 

Below: How it started, earlier this year.

Below: ( extreme close-up with harsh light to accentuate contours ) adding colour, and building structure using grid lines by masking alternating strips of canvas.

Below: As it is on 23rd Nov 2017, photographed during the fading light of the afternoon ( it starts to get dark at 4pm in the UK now - very impractical! ).

See the first part of this trilogy-in-progress here.

BLISS IN CONCRETE : STOREYS

In order to free up some space on this blog, and give it a bit more variety, I've consolidated many of the progressions of WORK IN PROGRESS 'B' / BLISS IN CONCRETE onto this page. So, apologies if you're a fan of a particular earlier version of this piece, but for me, I'm rather tired of having to scroll down and seeing it constantly reappear in all its many frustrating iterations.

Bliss In Concrete / Progressions / Acrylic on Canvas, 60cm x 60cm

( i ) 06/01/2016 - ( ii ) 15 / 09 / 2016

( iii ) 20 / 09 / 2016 -  ( iv ) 06 / 10 / 2016

( v ) 11 / 10 / 2016 - (vi ) 25 / 10 / 2016

( xi ) 15 / 02 / 2017 - ( xii ) 22 / 02 / 2017

If you really can't get enough of the BLUE PHASE of this piece, click here and here.