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My friend Callum Saunders shared a reminder on Facebook that today marks the start of the Autumn Equinox. His post spurred me to action and I made an abstract landscape work using a background of green and yellow, overlaid with more autumnal colours of orange and gold.
The more I looked, the less finished it appeared, so I added another note to reflect the harvest. I kinda like the way the wheat is leaning toward the setting sun. This will be the next free art drop.
I know, it’s Winter, and I came up with this design a few months ago. I’m pleased to say it has kept me very busy since.
I made the first Autumn Fire for the We Are All Artists free art project, an abstraction of fire using acrylic paint and gold leaf. Here it is along with a picture of it in situ at the Carshalton War Memorial, before it was found.
People responded very positively to this design. I like it, a lot, Yet I was surprised by how many folk contacted me about it, to say how much they like it, and to ask if I would make one for them. I happily obliged, and once word got out that I was making a series of Autumn Fire, the requests kept coming. I was asked to scale up, I painted one for someone locally, one went to Cambridge, and another to New Zealand.
This represents a turning point for me and my art, the first time I designed an art work which resonated so strongly with others. My next post will be about where this art work took me next, a literal twist or two. Until then – here’s a picture of the 2016 New Year’s Eve free art, which I placed at a wedding of some dear friends in St Louis.
Sorry for not posting in a while, been busy doing other stuff. I was up in Holderness this weekend with family and friends having loads of fun. We went mushroom picking and looking for fossils on the beach among other things. On the way back from …
Sorry for not posting in a while, been busy doing other stuff. I was up in Holderness this weekend with family and friends having loads of fun. We went mushroom picking and looking for fossils on the beach among other things. On the way back from the beach I found a leaf. I’ve no idea why this one stood out from the many others to me – and it did. I hope you like it.
