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“One thing I love about my abstract pieces is how new the creation is. It’s rare I draw them from life, so every new line, every landscape, is a brand new thing I’ve brought into the world, it’s fresh and I get to then build on it and ask, okay, what else is in this world? And it’s very exciting to try and answer that.”

My abstract pieces go back years, further than my nudes, further than all my digital art. I bought an A6 drawing book filled with kraft paper from Paperchase, back when that was still in business, and began drawing whatever came to my mind. I hadn't really delved into the history of abstract art at this point, my education in the subject would come later, but there was something about creating new faces, new landscapes, different from how you're taught to draw them, but still recognisable and meaningful that made me happy. I could integrate shapes, land forms, eyes, leaves, whatever I desired in the moment, into one picture. I'm naturally indecisive when it comes to art, I find it hard to begin if I don't have an outline, something I want to accomplish. Abstract was what freed me from that. With the only constraint being my imagination, and occasionally running out of page space, I was free to experiment; come up with my very own art style. 

Now, my abstract collection contains patterns, faces, nudes. Leaves feature heavily too, in playing around with those I devised a way of drawing foliage that looks 3D, stand in front of a framed piece and it looks extraordinary. I've since used it in my more lifelike tree drawings, taking what I learnt experimenting with abstracts into my other styles.

My colouring book a colouring book by willustrating too intertwines my digital nude art with the foliage and backgrounds found and originated in my abstract work.

Treating abstract art like a rest activity, a sandbox, has allowed me to grow as an artist and create some of my best works, below is a selection of my personal favourites.

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