Abstract
Paintings –
Art Prints and Books Too
I appreciate that my
own paintings will either be of some interest or not, so I have tried
to include other things on this site which I hope you may find
interesting.
To this end I have created pages where you can
browse a range of top
quality prints and books by some of my favourite abstract artists. We can’t all have an
original Rothko or
Picasso on wall, but there are some fabulous reproductions available. For further information
see my Art
Prints page and my Art
Books page.
Abstract Paintings -
About This Site
I’m sure you can
tell
that I didn’t pay a classy designer to produce this site for me. I put it together myself
simply as a way of
getting my abstract paintings online, and it is still work in progress. I knew nothing at all
about website design or
promotion when I started, and if I’d known how much there was to not
know, I
might not have started!
Let’s just say I
learned an awful lot in the year it took to get this site from not
existing at all, to ranking in the top handful of sites on Google for
all my main
search terms. I go
into
more detail about my thoughts on how artists or anyone else can
get online on my How To create A Website
page and you can find advice on selecting a web hosting company on the Web Host Review page.
One of the main things
I discovered is that there is little point having a fantastic looking
website displaying the most amazing abstract art if no-one sees it. Sites need to be designed
to please search engines, otherwise no-one can find them.
Designing and promoting a site to rank high in
search engines is called
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), and without it your website may as
well not
exist. I go into
some detail and share
many of the most important aspects of SEO on my Search
Engine Optimization
pages. I went from not having heard fo SEO to getting this
site
into the top 10 out of several million for all my main
keywords.
The SEO pages tell you how.
Abstract Art –
Buying A Contemporary Painting
The abstract
paintings you will find on this site are
created using oil paint on
stretched cotton canvas. All paintings shown in the
Gallery pages
are for sale unless otherwise stated.
Buying abstract art is easy - payment is simple and the
paintings
will be shipped straight to your door, wherever you live.
Please go to
the 'Sales Information' page for details of how to purchase
your own
original and unique abstract paintings. When you purchase contemporary
paintings through this
website you will be saving on gallery commission and getting the best
price
possible. Dealing
directly with me
through my website allows you to save on gallery fees and ensure you
get the
best deal.
While I have
tried to price the works reasonably, I am
happy to negotiate on prices, if you look at the enlarged image of each
abstract painting in the gallery pages you will see that there is a
facility on there to
make an offer.
If you would like
to ask any questions or require
further information on the paintings in the Online
Art Gallery, or if
you wish to make a comment regarding the website,
please go to the Contact
page
Abstract Art - About
The Artist
I studied
painting for
four years and graduated in Fine Art in 1987. My particular
style of
abstract painting has gradually developed since then. I was
heavily influenced
by the American Abstract Expressionists while studying Fine Art, and
for me
painting is primarily a means of self expression. The
expressive process
of creating each painting is as important to me as the finished artwork
itself.
While all the paintings are abstract, ambiguous shapes and forms are
visible in
the finished composition, which are suggestive of different things to
different
people. This ambiguity is very important to me. These abstract paintings
are ones in which
the viewer can perceive different things each time they look at
the paintings. For more information on my approach
to abstract painting,
go to the About The
Artist page.
Abstract Art and How
To Understand It
The first thing to
say
is that Abstract Paintings aren’t any one single thing, there are all
sorts of
approaches to abstract art with extremely different results. My own interest and
approach is in the
tradition of abstract expressionism, with the idea of the artist as
subject, an
intuitive approach and self expression high up the agenda.
When asked what
his
subject matter was, the Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock famously
remarked “I am the subject”. The
point
being that you don’t need an external point of reference in order to
create a
painting. Having
said that, it is
inevitable that external factors do have an influence and show through
in the
resulting abstract paintings.
What Pollock is
saying
is that it is who he is that makes his paintings what they are. He is the sum of his own
unique experiences,
and it the combination of this and his particular memories, mood,
environment,
etc that result in his paintings.
It is a shame that
abstract art is not widely appreciated, and in the UK
at least our
education system has to take at least part of the blame. There is still a
widespread perception that
abstract paintings are either created by people because they can’t do
‘proper’
paintings, or that they are in fact trying to do a proper painting, but
failing
badly.
For further
information on my ramblings on the subject of abstract paintings see
my Understanding
Abstract
Art essay.
