About the Work


To the left are some examples of my work spanning a period from
1976 to the end of 2000.
 
My artwork is of an abstract expressionist nature.
However, not stricktly in the Jackson Pollock sence
of the term. Some call it 'Post Painterly Abtsract Expressionism'
although these days I am more likely to be labeled
'Post - Modernist'. Big umberella terms that shades many a
blade of grass, but hey! who cares for labels anyway.

Good art, figurative or abstract, is about passion.
To my mind, if you want truely awsome landscapes you can't
beat Heaton Cooper any of the Turners, Constables,
Samuel Palmer, Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland,
Patrick Heron.

If you are looking for the raw pleasure of abstract color try
John Hoyland or Shaun Skully.

Somewhere between sit people like Micheal English,
Brendan Neiland, Tom Phillips, Rodger Dean,
Patrick Caulfield, Robert Raushenberg,
Edwardo Paolozzi. Salvador Dali, M C Esher.
Hopefully present too are influences such as Degas,
Cezanne, Mattisse, Yves Klien, Sydney Nolan,
Max Ernst, Magritte, Goyer, Durer and
many others.
	   
My work involves a multitude of considerations colour, shape,
composition and texture being but a few. However, the chief
motivations deal with more than these technical and artistic
devices.

The contrasting imagery of man and nature. The reaction of nature.
It's fatalist, uncontrollable images upon mans' rigorously designed
objects and surfaces. The architecture, the factories and houses,
the roads, canals and railways, all form a part of mans assumed
control over nature. Whereas, the moss on the walls, the eroded
stone and concrete, the cracked paint, all indicate natures'
everlasting, un-assuming presence.

All this may sound very glum and solemn, the decrying of mans'
achievement! the voice of decent upon progress.

Nothing could be further from my mind, for it is the contrast,
harmony and balance of these two interlocked parties which
intrigues me.

Visual ambiguity also fascinates me. Colours, forms and lines
(or edges) are blended and manipulated influenced by association
to finally take up residence in the minds eye.
Concious versus sub-concious.

Many people make a similarity with my work and microscopic
photography. One thing I became aware of when at FE collage was
the idea of 'micro' and 'macro' veiwing.
 
Where do you set the frame? If you look at something close up,
a couple of inches away (micro veiwing or magnified) what
different processes are you aware of as apposed to looking
over a wide vista such as a desert landscape or some of the
exquisite NASA pictues of the planets and space pnomina
(macro veiwing).

If you let your mind define the scale of things rather than the
accuallity of the eye. Whole 'new' landscapes, perspectives
and scales become possible.

Like a child gazing into fire and extending the limb of
imagination to see caves, and landscapes of the mind.



New Work

Computers are an abstract artists' dream come true.
An ocean of possibilities unfold before you. And now the technology
is with us to output these fantastic images directly to print in
the most uncompromising manner.



Fractals 

All of the Fractals available here were created using FRACTAL ORBITS
32 Version 2.01 plptrigon@enterprise.net or JM’s Mandelbrot Explorer 
The additional filtering was done with Paint Shop Pro 4.15se and
widely available freeware plugin filters.

Fractals, or, the ideas behind how they work mate perfectly with my
theme of control vs uncontrol. While I can choose the colour set,
position and compositional dymamic, even manipulate the Math
parameters to a great degree. It is ultimately the Math process
that is responsible for how the images are brought about.









Exhibitions & Shows

HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY - Burnley
Window Display of 14 Prints
(1979)

STOURPORT
Stourport Camera Club
(Annual Open)1981

NORTHAMPTON
Northampton Camera Club
(Annual Open)1981

ACCRINGTON
Howarth Art Gallery Accrington
(Annual Open)1981, 1982, 1984

PRESTON
Harris Art Gallery Preston.
Mathew Brown Lancashire Artists'
Exhibition 1981, 1982

PADIHAM
Sub-title: Photograms
Group Exhibition Gawthorpe Hall
Padiham Nr. Burnley
September, 4th - 29th 1982

BURNLEY
Drawings and Paintings Solo Exhibition
Towneley Hall and Art Gallery Burnley
April 24th - May 29th 1983

WAPPING/LONDON The Xerox Show
Group Exhibition
Wapping Wharf Arts Project London
August 6th - 20th, 1983

BURNLEY
Pendle Artists Abstract Art Exhibition
(Winner) Mid-Pennine Arts
Association Gallery Burnley March 1984

BURNLEY ATTAM
(All that thinks and moves)
Group Exhibition 
Mid-Pennine Arts Association
Gallery Burnley. 1986

BURNLEY
Tempory show at the offices
of 4NetDesigns.com Standish Street. 2001