Art Sales

This week is sale week on my Etsy site so if you're looking for something original to hang on your wall that hasn't been created through AI or mass market, then visit, choose something you like and I can get it to you well before Xmas

My ETSY site is at 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/IanHammondArt

 Weekend

I had a relaxing day today, spending time at my daughters grave and then with my son, at a lovely place near the river I try to get to as often as I can.

Its a lovely location and so quiet with just birds and the rustle of the wind through the leaves that interrupts you whilst sitting there.

Nice lunch after.

 More abstration

After a day of not feeling well, I finished this piece which is based on another artists work, came MaryAnneShakyHand who created geometric art which I think is lovely

It helps me to focus when my attention span is all over the place, and I love how the flow of colour on the page is enhanced by the individual colours in the geometric shapes.

This one is in pen an dink with the colour from coloured watercolour pencils, but the next one to do is one with acrylic paint as well, just to see the contract

Water and fire 

I have just finished "The forty rules of Love" by Elif Shafak.  An enjoyable book, with many twists and turns, but mainly about journeys, following what you believe or feel is right, and in the end, love

Love this from the last page

Life is the water of life and a lover is a soul of fire

I like that definition.

"The universe turns differently when fire loves water"

 Weekends rest

Its almost the weekend, and time to rest and recover, without the early starts, travelling, long days and late nights back.

To spend some time with these lovelies will be a pleasure

the week after my mums ashes were spread in the sea from the beach she loved

Many things make you realise how fragile life is, and how easy it is to just meander along without a care and suddenly everything changes.

So, enjoy the rest this weekend. I for one will be doing some art and watching rugby, and reading book 3 of the Book of Dust series by Philip Pullman

Patterns and Shapes

I haven't really done any artwork for a while but I've been doodling with pen on paper as going to try some line art, shapes and architectural type of lines to bring out the picture I have in my head.

Back working full time so a bit knackered in the week to do anything, so it'll be weekend activity really.

I want to make pictures without shading, without any forced texture and only use parallel lines to see how it turns out

wish me luck.

I sometimes find my lack of art training catches me out and shows my inexperience and lack of ability, but on the other hand im quite happy to try anything - well, except for oil painting.  think I need to do something formal with that so that its not a bogeyman for me as it currently is

 Abstraction

If you've been looking at my website (https://www.ianhammondart.co.uk) you'll have seen that most of my most recent work has been abstract art, mixing rainbows, nature and geometric shapes in various ways.  

Part of this is because when emotionally I'm in lots of places, it helps me to relax and almost feel the colours and put them onto the canvas or paper, but also its acknowledging the importance of all of the shades and colours to life, and that they are all connected. 

Thats not meant to be pretentious.  It's about shades of colour across all parts of nature, with no one colour being dominant across the board.

So I started playing with colour, trying different things.  I saw an amazing artist on Instagram,  called Maryanne Shakyhand (www.gabbagallery.com) who creates amazing geometric pictures, and so I did a bit of that sort of art, but also flowing rainbows of colour, either as solid flows or lines of individual colour.  

Below are some of these

Im enjoying the less restricted painting style in the latest works, but the geometric style does help my mind to both fly and focus at the same time, which is good at times when its in the wind

Have a look at the other stuff on my website. I hope you like them.  Feel free to comment