Wednesday 9 July 2008

Flirting with beginings


914 x 914 cm canvas, the base for the Ensembli painting. Painted up in graduations of colbalt blue as the first stage.

Sketches and ideas for the Ensembli painting.

Well its a week of all go, my blogger template is working and I love it, which means that this design can be worked back through to the rest of the website now and subsequent business cards. Hopefully if the plan comes together the site will be a smooth transition throughout, nothing flashy, just a simple site to show my work as I begin to take my work seriously again after having Hayden...its taken me long enough! I am excited by the site and it appears that it will do exactly what I wanted, and hopefully I can integrate links etc to external galleries and artists sites as I go along....exciting times.
The second major beginning is this new painting for an office building in Sheffield, for a company called Ensembli. Using the logo and its location I have come up with a concept that seems like a goer, just the fine details to iron out. I wanted to express thier Blue Skies attitude to thier product, its roots and foundation both in the physical building and industrial heritage of Yorkshire. To reflect the impact that thier ideas have/will have on the world and the ripples of influence those ideas will generate. The emergence of the bubbles from the chimney represents how ideas can become reality yet the solidity of the chimney gives grounding. I am also aware of making these concepts work away from Ensembli and as a stand alone painting and I think it manages to achieve both.

Tuesday 8 July 2008

Latest painting...


Alpha Male II

26 x 18 inches, Acrylic on Canvas board.

Latest painting, part of Alpha Male series, looking at the shoulder and arms of the beautiful male. Playing on the strength of the male role. I have tried to express the lifting up, guidance and safety of the male, and to honour the beauty that is the male.

Brand new day...

...well here it is, my first blog, and just a small piece in my aim for world domination. Seriously, it is time for me to take my artwork seriously again, and so heres my blog that I am commited to updating showing what I am upto in Nikki World. The blog template will provide the benchmark for the rest of my site which is currently being designed. The theory being that the site then will be seamless throughout and totaly integrated.

All being well the site should be functional within a couple of weeks and my job then is to get the detail in. For some reason I REALLY liked a particular style of gallery and so thats causing a bit of a problem, which I am assured will be sorted.

Thats about it from me, onwards.....