Foundation Paintings To Giclée Art Prints

A section from the acrylic and watercolour abstract art painting "The Inspirationist" - a Foundation Painting.

Each evolution art piece begins with a hand-drawn Foundation Painting.

My Foundation Paintings are the starting point for digital evolution, where colours, shapes, and details are reimagined to create bold, modern abstract giclée art prints.

My inspiration for a painting can be whimsical, emotional or, very often, the human form, usually a life drawing. I mainly use acrylics on either canvas or paper before rendering them into high-quality digital prints, picking out interesting details and, experimenting with colour and form, evolving the original piece into a series of new versions.

Pure digital art is not something I'm personally into. However, I find using digital techniques to evolve an original hand-drawn painting or drawing interesting. I take advantage of the flow and subtlety of analogue drawing. After scanning the artwork into my Mac, I use a software suite to create new digital versions with exciting shapes, all from a pencil, brush or palette knife stroke originally on paper or canvas. Note that the software I use does not (sadly) make things easier or faster. I spend many hours on my Mac carefully selecting an area of the artwork I want to emphasise and still more hours agonising over colour.

Foundation paintings are not displayed publicly until they are available for sale or offered as a print, ensuring they remain an exclusive and integral part of the evolution collection.