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PHOTo: Colour selecting and markmaking 1 (Acrylic on board)

as well as being Reminiscent of graham (and damon) hill’s formula 1 driver’s helmet design (more about that in my blog post ‘hill’) - the tally element of this painting also references picket fencing, which i created from PALLETS at my former home in the lot region of france.

You will notice too, each tally group totalling six, not five - i won’t bore you with the obvious referencing to divergence and things not adding up. Oh wait, i just did! Sorry.

PHOTO: BLACK AND WHITE IMAGE OF MY FACE WITH GRID LINES AND IDRAWHEADS silhouette

I captured this image from the screen when i was putting together the layers for a full-colour photograph i was planning to print

i’d split the image into its COMPOSITE cyan, magenta, yellow and black (cmyk) layers, converted each layer to bitmap (i.e. made up of areas of black dots rather than grayscale) and staked those four on top of each other

The resultant image was pleasingly moody and for a time i considered using it to create a large format silkscreen print, however i didn’t as it would have taken me away from another project i was working on that had greater priority

I have many projects that for Various reasons are abandoned during their development phase, some i have returned to months or even years later

Photo: formula 1 racing legend graham hill

Growing up, My dad’s idol was the british formula 1 racing driver graham hill, who used to race wearing what would become an iconic design on his racing helmet, Inspired by the oxford university rowing club logo, featuring white oar motifs on a dark navy BACKGROUNd

The black and white image of me above reminded me of graham hill’s son and fellow f1 world champion, damon hill