A Book, a beer, your work is too dear

A Book, a beer, your work is too dear

- an A4 collage made up of abstract works created for a book project and potential beer label artwork.

I’ve just came back from a run.

A 2026 5k personal best.

My head is clear, my legs are a little tired and I have suddenly realised in between bites of banana that, I need to move my artwork away from social media.

The Ai problem

Ai when used as an art and design tool is fast, lazy and hard to look at. We’ve had long enough now to see that use of Ai for art and/or design is showing up a number of things about it’s users: a complete disregard for human creativity and a distinct lack of taste are the two most prominent revealing factors. Social media is swamped with Ai art, music, design, deep fake videos, false information, conspiracy theories and so on. Everything is rushed, urgent… there’s just too much happening.

Other people are better placed to expand on all of the moral issues and dangers raised by Ai.

I don’t think my artwork can exist in that world any longer. I need to protect it from the chaos.

A solution

If you think my art is good, interesting and/or of value in a way that you’d like to engage with or perhaps hang on your walls, then I hope you will follow this journal and bookmark it for further updates.

It’s not a newsletter, there are no mailing lists or spam emails incoming.

I will continue to post style content on social media as I’m incredibly grateful for what that has become and, for the opportunities that arise out of it.

The art is different though. It needs it’s own place and pace.

I feel space

I have recently been working on a tentatively titled series of pieces called I feel space:

An exploration in learning patterns from existing information.

Once trained, the artist predicts what comes next using patterns to create entirely new content.

An artists response to generative artificial intelligence. 

I’ve shared some of this recently on social media and from now on further updates will be shared here.

Initially this was a series of digital re-shaping experiments where I took the shapes I had painted in larger abstract works and, recoloured them, then moved them around on white space and also on other images digitally.

This has now developed into cutting up old paintings that were on paper, configuring the pieces in new ways and creating unique works in a collage format. Doing this was partly an act of disruption and frustration as I wrestled with both Ai in the art and design world but also, the annoyance at years of design work, clients, cost-cutting and the disregard for the creative process.

As these works develop I may say more about this

If you’ve read this far, thank you.

Hope

I keep seeing people say that content made by humans and not robots is going to be crucial and valuable in the future. I hope this is true of art and design. I hope the landscape shifts back toward us seeing the uniqueness in each other, in learning, creating, wrestling with ideas…

I guess we’ll soon find out if that’s true.

If you are interested in any of my work, have a project in mind or would like to commission something, please get in touch. I’d love to hear from you :)