Werner Herzog as Superman in the style of Edward Hopper (Created on Midjourney) There have been a lot of newspaper column inches dedicated to Artificial Intelligence lately, specifically the huge leaps forward in AI assisted creative tools. Most of you will have heard of the conversational ChatGPT tool and it’s written content that it can churn out […]
My father painted this portrait of me when I was around 5 or 6 years old. He began painting it when we lived in Sweden, and he finished later when we had moved to Ireland. I know this because I recall posing for it when we lived in our little apartment in Kalmar in the […]
At the start of the COVID lockdown, myself and my children decided to paint our garden furniture with several splashes of vivid colours. As we ease out of the pandemic, we felt it was time to give them a fresh burst of colours for the approaching spring.
In the midst of all this sadness in the world, the kids and I decided to embark on a brand new creative project to brighten up our garden furniture. It brought some much needed joy.
Great morning learning about Jackson Pollock with the kids and painting our own versions in the back garden.
More oddball New York-era paintings of mine from the start of the millennium that I found in the attic. I think I was trying to say something profound about words (palate) and painted visuals (palette).
Unearthed an old painting of mine in the attic that I love – I call it Big Bloody Copybook. A visual work that begs to have written work upon it.
Found some old sketches in my notebook for a series of large scale paintings I wanted to do called The Palate Series (or maybe The Pallet Series) which used sayings and phrases from different languages (English, French, German, Swedish) that played with the idea of language – often a linguistic turn of phrase or idea. […]
First things first, I am not a painter. I am just a fan of painting and in this post I wanted to offer up seven remarkable paintings that have made a huge impression on me and have inspired huge amounts of my own creative output. Hopefully they will spark similar reactions for you. My father was […]
