modern paintings

paintings – Tree with Green Leaves – a thin axis in blue Wall art narrows a tree to a single winding trunk climbing the full height of an exceptionally tall canvas: painting on canvas made for the shape of wall that usually stays empty. Technique and texture The sky is […]

View – a face looking straight back Painting on canvas squares a face to the viewer and builds it from dark and light planes with a red scarf around head and neck — decorative painting only in the loosest sense, because this one looks back at the room. Technique and […]

Golden Sunflowers – four heads of gold and shadow Four sunflowers in a strict gold-brown monochrome: no yellow, no green – only gold, bronze and shadow. The flower heads are not botany but relief objects: dark, gnarled seed discs with engraved swirls and spiky collars of golden petals. Technique & […]

Distance – a white axis between grey and red Wall art partitions the canvas with a white vertical, soft grey to its left and a glowing red-orange plane to its right — modern painting built this way asks to be read as weather on either side of a line rather […]

Office 2 – cold bands and gold seams Wall art threads thin gold-brown seams between horizontal bands of blue-green, dark green, cream and near-black: abstract painting of this kind earns its keep by putting the brightest thing on the canvas in the narrowest place. Technique and texture Those seams are […]

Watercolor – wet stains behind black axes Wall art pools yellow, blue-green, violet, orange and red into wet stains that run into one another with no outline at all, and the thin black lines laid across them afterwards are what make it: modern painting rather than a happy accident. Technique […]

Tree and Lava – a blue crown in a gold wind Wall art unfurls a wide blue crown across a gold-orange sky and stands it on a dark brown hill in the lower third of the canvas — modern painting in which the two halves of the colour wheel are […]

Faces in the Mirror V – a gold field and chestnut hair Painting on canvas rests the face against a wide gold field that occupies the left third and is worked in soft circular strokes: abstract painting on one side of the canvas and a portrait on the other. Technique […]

Faces in the Mirror II – a narrow tower and a line of smoke Painting on canvas elongates a single face into a narrow upright tower running from the top edge of the canvas to the bottom — modern painting in which the proportions are the joke and the face […]

Touch of the Sea – scratches in deep blue Wall art incises fine scratches and cuts into a deep blue field that fills the canvas edge to edge — abstract painting with not one warm tone anywhere in it. Technique and texture Several overlapping layers went down before any of […]

Horizon I – three bands that nature never made Wall art terraces three horizontal bands one above another, green-grey at the top, a bright yellow-gold through the middle and red-brown below: modern painting rather than landscape, because no sky does that. Technique and texture Each band went on with a […]

Faces in the Mirror I – three profiles in one band Painting on canvas welds three long faces into a single upright band so that the edge of one becomes the beginning of the next — wall art that works the way a narrow mirror does: everything reflected has to […]

Nude II – a blue skirt against a red wall Wall art swings one broad blue skirt across a saturated red field and rings the whole shape in heavy black: decorative painting built from two colours held at full strength, with nothing in between them to soften the meeting. Technique […]

Intersection – a teal line across red Wall art severs a single-colour red field with one narrow teal line running horizontally just above the middle, and gathers white ridges on it in three places: decorative painting that reads as a horizon even though no object is painted anywhere on it. […]

Face under Hair – eyes we never see Wall art hides the upper half of a face beneath a thick fall of coloured hair, leaving the nose, the mouth and the chin painted in a cool blue-violet — modern painting in which the hair is handled as pure colour, drawn […]

Marilyn Monroe – red lips on black Wall art sculpts a white-silver head out of a wholly black ground, so the face reads as a relief laid onto darkness rather than as a picture painted into it: modern painting whose only saturated colours are the red of the lips and […]

Abstract Nature – birch trunks against saturated red Wall art surrounds a dense row of birch trunks with a deep saturated red, leaving only narrow red gaps between them, and closes the lower third with a stone-grey ground cracked right across: modern painting whose whole force comes from that collision. […]

Sensual Nature – one crown over eight trunks Painting on canvas covers its upper third with a single unbroken crown of dark burgundy laid on in thick blocks, and stands eight thin dark trunks beneath it, four to a side, with a wide gap down the middle: modern painting whose […]

Dimensions of Art I – a silver wedge across cracked red Wall art fractures a saturated red field into a net of cracks and then drives a wide silver-white wedge diagonally across the middle of it: modern painting in which the wedge touches no edge at all and simply stops […]

In Space XII – two combed arcs over grey Wall art stretches two dark combed arcs across a heavily worked grey-white ground, one rising from the left and the other falling on the right, with an upright brown-copper field standing between them: abstract painting whose surface is as physical as […]

In Space IX – bands like a cut through a trunk Wall art slices the canvas into upright bands of different widths, running from cream and ochre on the left through a dark bark-like strip to grey-green, then to a dotted blue-green and white, and closing brown-red at the right […]

Flowers III – two heads on a field of script Wall art inscribes two orange-red flowers into a creamy beige field that is covered end to end with flowing, handwriting-like strokes, and gives each of them five gold-rimmed heart petals around a tightly gathered centre: modern painting whose ground is […]

Meaning IV – a green ring cut from black Wall art cuts a large light green ring out of a black ground and lays a creamy white almond inside it, then runs a red curve down through the ring and away to the left edge: abstract painting reduced far enough […]