Note 2017 Oil on canvas 60 cm x 60cm A square painting. It is a portrait of a person from the waist up. The details in the portrait are sparse. The figure is roughed in using blacks and whites, lending it an ominous or ghostly vibe. Angular grey segments separated by pale areas surround the figure. Over laying all of this in an orange hue are angular squiggles. They are arranged in a regular grid. The squiggles look like they could be runes or sigils. The image overall has a mysterious and challenging feel to it.

An old painting of mine. 2017 or 2016. Im not sure what has happened to the painting. But i know i no longer have it. Which is a shame as I really like it.
#cypher #portrait #oilpaint 🖌🎨
#artcan #kiac
Note(2016 -17)
Oil on canvas
60cm x 60cm
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Six word story 1 Prototype The image shows a roughly constructed paper cube, in 3/4 view. The paper used is a simple squared graph paper. On each of the sides we can see, different squares have been shaded. Some squares are darker than others. The cube sits on a black background that is speckled with dust. The second photo shows the same cube but different faces of the cube. It's an idea ive been wanting to explore further. #cube #cypher #sixwordstory #artcan #KIAC

Six word story 1 Prototype The image shows a roughly constructed paper cube, in 3/4 view. The paper used is a simple squared graph paper. On each of the sides we can see, different squares have been shaded. Some squares are darker than others. The cube sits on a black background that is speckled with dust. The second photo shows the same cube but different faces of the cube. It's an idea ive been wanting to explore further. #cube #cypher #sixwordstory #artcan #KIAC

Six word story 1
Prototype

A six word story on graph paper as a cube.

It's an idea ive been wanting to explore further.

#cube #cypher #sixwordstory #artcan #KIAC #upscrolled

I’m so happy to share that my work “On Tender Ground” has been selected for The London Group Open 2025!
@thelondongroup Private View: Thursday 7 November, 6–9 pm 🍷Copeland Gallery, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST #TextileWork #TheLondongroup #Open25 #Artcan

If you don't read my alt text you do miss out on my thoughts. I'm not saying they are worth reading just that they are there.

I class these as semi asemic art
#artonbluesky
#frustration #artcan #kiac @artcanorg.bsky.social
#oilpaint
#text
#asemic

A page of pencil drawings looking at the mechanics of a man twisting his torso.

Figure study of a lady leaning forward with her right shoulder raised. Completed in pencil.

Late night figure studies
#figurestudies
#kiac
#artcan
#drawing

Wimmelbild-Mixedmedia-Arbeit auf Vintage-Aktenordner. Viele verschiedene Frauenbilder. Mit Collage-Texten: Guerilla Girls-Frage: "Do woman have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?" "We Are Wo Men" "Don't panic" "What makes you a raging Guerilla Girl?" Art by Teena

What makes you a raging Guerilla Girl?

Zeit für
#Kunstbande ?
#Kunstbanden
#KunstAlsProtestWirdImmerWichtiger
#KunstKann
#ArtCan
#FrauenBildetBanden
#WomenFormGangs

For
#LoveAndPeace
#FlowerPower

🌸🪷🩵☮️✏️🎨🖼

My New Soft Sculpture: The Weight of Dis-comfort| Domestic, distorted, and just a little suffocating.height 230 cm x width 60 cm x 60 #TheWeightOfDiscomfort #NewWork #SoftSculpture #Artcan

Lovely evening at From ArtCan With Love postcard fundraiser last night. Very happy that my contribution 'Who Says Nightmares Don't Come True' has found a new home. Thankyou to the collector.
#artcan #supportingartists #originalart #postcards #oilonboard #Wednesday

Stillness - the @artcanorg.bsky.social exhibition. Catch it Wed - Sat 12 - 5 pm upstairs at Angel Central Islington.
#stillness #exhibition #artcan #bringingarttothehighstreet #Islington #london #whatson #artscene

OutLANDish, curated by Rebekah Dean, now open at Asylum Chapel, SE15. Join us: Artist Talk – Apr 30, 5–6pm Private View – Apr 30, 6–8pm
My work Between Here and Gone explores memory & absence in this haunting space. All welcome!
#OutLANDishExhibition #textileart #sculpture #Womenart #Artcan

‘Kinetic: the pink diamond’ (60x60cm) - my entry for Vienna Calling IV, with ArtCan, about reflection, refraction, kinetic sculptures floating in the air and catching the light - and the Pink Panther ❤️.

#contemporaryabstract #johathaway #diamonds #fractal #kinetic #artcan #thepinkpanther

St/p 60 cm x 60cm Household wall paint on mdf. The image shows a board covered in hexagons. Each Hexagon is divided into six wedges and has a number of 'rings' For example a 16 cm wide hexagon would have 8 rings. ( each ring is 2cm wide) The background of the painting is painted in parama violet. Sections of the Hexagon are painted in fairytale punk. The upper section of the artwork has green masking tape on it, and splodges of pink. The masking tape is to keep the lines of each section sharp.

A view of my workstation.. The image shows the pink painting 'St/p' resting against the studio wall. On the table a variety of tools and drawing implements are casually strewn. We can see a note book with designs in it, rulers, masking tape and a white chopping board covered in black guide lines and green masking tape.

ST/P The image shows the art work with the masking tap removed. The main colours are the Violet, pink and a grey. The art work is a bit grubby. The reason it took so long to do this is each of the hexagons were drawn with inadequate tools. This meant although the hexagons were generally okay, but not good enough when I needed precision, in angles and parallel lines. I was forced to rework the angles as I went. Which was not fun. But it has been dine and the rest of it .... should be easy... We shall see.

8 and a half hours masking up this board yesterday. Just putting the masking tape on.
Swearing happened. Lots. Soon it will be finished.

Today in contrast, i masked up a board, painted it and painted up the pink work, and I got home for 4.
#hexencoding #artcan #artcanhour #artistonbluesky
#art

I just joined Bluesky and here is my first post with trees connecting 🌳🌳.
#ArtCan #interconnectedness #trees #photography #nature

A hand reaching out to an abstract structure. The structure has extreme 2 point perspective. The painting is unfinished and untitled.

A hexagonal vivid pink squiggle on a vibrant orange ground. The pink line weaves around parts of the hexagon. It is a labyrinth with one way in and out. The painting is textured and appears swiftly painted. The work is unfinished. (I photographed it upside down too, but shhhhhh!!)

Work from the studio, today. They are both fairly small. The greenish one is round A3, the labyrinth in pink and orange and about 10" x 10". The labyrinth contains a message.

#artcan
#artcanhour
#KIAC
#studio
#wip

Cypher key that uses DNA bindings of U C A G. Depicted as a 4 tables with proteins produced. It's on isometric paper and very scrawled.

Isometric blocks shaded with black and white Crosshatch. The image is dense and appears heavy. A sentence is encoded as a cypher within the construction.

Code and writing systems on isometric paper. Depicted is the writing system of Ogham and the knock code. Again this is a very messy scrawled text.

More methods of encoding. Depicted are musical staves with an octave that corresponds to 8 bits of data in binary. A segment of an idea to use the I Ching to create cypher systems and another reference to DNS proteins. The image is very untidy with many repetitions of ideas

Last night's drawing and thinking. Looked at different code and cypher systems.

Thinking about using Minecraft to create virtual 3d versions.
#artaswriting #writingasart #hexagon #block #cypher #code #isometric #artcan #artcanhour #thoughts #sketchbook