Advancing

 Chemical formation 945 - Carrying on with my ferrofluid sculptures I decided to create a mixture of colours within singular lakes of one another. I found it to create a movement and feeling within its area. I feel it tells a story in itself of horror and hope, dominated by the upper class of Purple royalty.

 This image was created during my experiments with conjuring colour. I have been going through the motions of creating my own paints, choosing to start with ultramarine due to its transcendent nature. Although this pigment is the synthetic modern day pigment. As the oil was laid across it, I noticed its inspired similarities to the original pigment, Lapis Lazuli and went about documenting this image.

 This is the documentation of the current progression in my exploration of colour chemistry as a response to my dissertation research. This series will eventually be moved into an exhibition room to create an installation based on the chemistry of colour, to hopefully get people to think about and understand their materials more in depth.

 All of the colours within these works have been created by paint I have made myself in the studio, there is currently a royal purple and a white canvas drying to complete the series. Each colour will have its own in depth description below it in the final installation sharing my knowledge of its historical and scientific backgrounds.

Back into the studio at last

Back to uni heralds the new possibilities of open plan exhibition rooms to be taken over by crazed art students, I commandeered one for its lighting and have kick started the daunting third year ceremonies with images such as these.

I'm Back

So it has been a while since I last managed to update the page due to exhibitions and working in London with artists Hilary Koob-Sassen and Tim Flach ( http://hilarykoobsassen.com/ and http://www.timflach.com/ ). However I am now back to making my own work again and here is a taster of whats coming.

"Orchid" is my latest works using image stacking and focus rails to create a finer crisper image on a larger scale. The reason I am working with an Orchid rather than my usual ferrofluid formations is due to the fact I am currently staying in Cheltenham with my girlfriend and Orchids have a deep root within our relationship. It is said the Orchid is a symbol of delicate rarity with this ones white flowers giving an enhanced feeling of purity and against the warm pink background the plant reveals a feeling of elegance and exoticism.

End of year exhibition

Beyond Colouring-in is the Swansea Metropolitan university's end of year show, consisting of primarily 2nd years the show will take place at 7 p.m on the 7th of June.

We do have a website; http://smufineartexhibition.weebly.com/ check everyone out, there's some real talent developing in the Swansea Met and we are hoping to show you some!

So, "COME ONE COME ALL, STEP RIGHT UP! For one week only there are spectacles I can guarantee you have never seen before!" Get everyone to come along and it'll be an event to remember!

Collective imagery of recent works

Ink visions

The Performance

 All of the above images were taken during the performance at my last exhibition and were taken by Fern Thomas.