Hi All! If your in Leeds city centre come and say hi as from tomorrow I will be there for 16 days. I will be with my pop up shop in the main atrium area of Victoria Quarter shopping centre, showcasing all my prints with over 200 pieces to browse! Hope to see you at some point! Yusef 😊
We had a nice get together last night. Joss will retire from running the gallery this weekend as planned. However it looks as though our proposal to run the "Invisible Artists" show in there till Christmas has got the green light.
It was lovely to get an invite to the farewell drinks and I fully intend to come along. However, a hospital appointment with my son took much longer than anticipated so I couldn’t get there in the end! Good news about the extension until Christmas 👍
What everyone working on at the moment art wise? Please share a pic of what you're currently mid drawing or keep coming back to try and finish at the moment? 📸
I’ve started a new series of paintings progressing my exploration of Brutalist visual motifs. The new work features a surface divided into smaller pictographs which I think of as a glossary or lexicon. In terms of the painting/compositional theory, this is the first time I’ve introduced anything resembling a repeated pattern. Overall it is a more abstract set of shapes yet it looks more ordered than some of my previous “could almost be a building” compositions. So far an interesting new avenue to explore, hopefully I get a decent collection of paintings out of it!
This and a few other paintings are on show in Ilkley as part of a group show called ‘BUILT’ - highly recommended as I’m lucky enough to be amongst a whole host of great artist there! Tinker Gallery Ilkley (opposite the art supplies shop)
My new etching based on drawings and photographs taken from the Candletower in August, is finally completed. I am calling it “ All change here” as the view will already have significantly altered from when we were there.