Dancing wildly the drugged out young people are oblivious to all but the music, lights and themselves. Yes it’s an abstract painting of a rave party. Can’t you see it.
Crowd of spectators at a football match
Chromacolour acrylic on MDF board. 20x26cm. Completed 27th July 2009.
This is a crowd of spectators at an Australian Rules Football match. It’s a happy, contemporary, abstract painting and very dynamic. The skill in making something like this isn’t very high but nonetheless it’s not something that does have a lot of love and passion put into it.
A bunch of flowers
Acrylic on canvas. 29x29cm. Completed 24th January 2010.
I love the idea of flowers against a black background. This is halfway between realistic and total abstraction. This is another work inspired by the Dutch flower painters of seventeenth century. I usually don’t paint on canvas, and I usually mix my paints for a matt finish. This time I decided to change. Unfortunately the photograph doesn’t convey accurately the real thing and the black towards the right hand side has reflected back.
Alien landscape 3
Acrylic on MDF board 49x90cm. Completed 26th July 2010.
This is the third in a series of Alien landscapes. Contemporary abstract painting is varied, and there is a wide range of approaches and techniques. The painting could be a minimalist work with something as simple as one color or it could be a riot of colors, shapes like the above painting. I greatly prefer complex, chaotic and totally abstract painting. It could be a view similar to what we see in satellite photo’s or it could be a typical view of a landscape full of flowers. That’s entirely dependent on your own perception.
Alien landscape 2
Acrylic on MDF board. 90x60cm. Completed September 2005.
This is the second in a series of Alien landscapes. It could be a view similar to what we see in satellite photo’s or it could be a typical view of a landscape. An artist who seeks to make ultra contemporary abstract paintings should look to subject matter to inspire them that is – ‘way out there’. So when I started this one I intended to create a view of an alien city that is full of life. It’s not unlike our cities here on earth with their vertical architecture, but it is considerably more organic in it’s construction.
Contemporary abstract paintings are often riduculed by the general public. That’s fine by me – I get a great deal of enjoyment out of flicking, spilling, dropping and brushing on the acrylic paint. The emotion and concepts behind the alien series of paintings are strangeness, uniqueness and beauty. If someone doesn’t see what I had in mind as an artist, when trying to create such an artwork, and see’s something completely different then that is fantastic. A totally abstract paintings meaning is entirely dependent on your own perception.
Alien landscape 1
Acrylic on MDF board. 90x60cm. Completed June 2005. Private collection.
This is a contemporary abstract painting of an alien landscape. Because I see it as such doesn’t mean you will too. It could be a ballet lesson full of pretty young girls to another person. That’s the beauty of total abstraction. For me it’s similar to a satellite photo of a planetary surface. Paintings such as this are princpally about beauty more than anything else.
I am greatly influenced by Jackson Pollock and Jean-Paul Riopelle, who were both prominent artists of the mid-twentieth century.
Despair
Acrylic on MDF board. 60x90cm. Completed May 2006.
Emotions tend to be ‘heightened’ amongst artists. Possibly because of our creativity. Conveying an emotion like despair involves the use of sombre colors, and an array of muddied shapes.Sometimes I get very depressed and I believe this abstract painting shows that emotion. I feel that it’s not appropriate to turn to a doctor and put my hand out for pills. One simply has to re-focus on what is important in life and the go out and make the best out of it all.
Satan and his minions
Abstract painting. Acrylic on canvas. 44x44cm. Completed 24th January 2010.
As an abstract painter I can tackle what is very much current history. This work is of Satan and his cohorts who are a planning a war. They plot to kill in the name of the almighty Satan. If you believe in god then you also believe in his nemesis and to an atheist who doesn’t believe in either I can take these symbols to explain the very powerful moral beliefs I have with as much passion as I can muster to a believer. Whether you are a Christian, Hindu or Muslim – the idea of Satan (and his evil servants) is as powerful as an icon as there is. And I have used it in an completely abstract painting to communicate the horror of the violence that lurks in these men’s minds.
There names are many and they often lurk in positions of high authority. In this case three people are quite clearly eviden- George Walker Bush, Richard Bruce “Dick” Cheney, and Donald Henry Rumsfeld. The decisions they made have lead to the deaths of over two hundred thousand humans. There’s no difference between them and Satan. Abstract painting like this allows a ultra conceptual artwork to be made. It also allows me to upset a great number of people.
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