This is where it all started, for me; not everything, I mean, but this is the first way I hoped to sell my artwork through the World Wide Web.
In the late 1990's I was doing plenty of artwork with digital tools. Although it had been ten years or more since I'd been a painter it still bothered me that I no longer had originals. The work I did now seemed ephemeral when I compared it with the solid reality of the paintings I used to make.
It took a few more years to find a way to offer these prints. They've joined all my other merchandise now and I'm very happy that they're here.
are priced slightly higher.
This is a digitally colored version of an ink drawing I did ’way back in 1985. I’ve tried a couple of color treatments over the years, but till now I hadn’t managed anything that I really liked. I do really like this one.
It’s softer than most of my recent digital knotwork, and it reminds me of my very early watercolor paintings - when I was really tinting drawings. The colors in those watercolors gradually grew stronger until I often omitted the inks altogether. So this piece resembles some of the paintings I did in the early 80’s, while I was making that transition.
I picked this piece to do as part of a project I’d just completed. The outer knotwork border uses a pattern I created as part of my book of Celtic art designs.