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.