This month, I want to present a selection of abstract images that I have produced over the years.

Below the following images is a brief description of my philosophies behind creating abstract images.

Following are small images of twenty artworks.

Click on an image, or its title, to go to a page with better reproductions and more details about that artwork.

Once you are looking at artworks in more detail, you can use the ‘prev’ and ‘next’ links (at the top and bottom of each details page) to go to the previous or next artworks in the monthly display respectively, or return to this monthly display overview page.

About My Abstract Images:

The basic philosophy behind my abstract images: The vast majority of music we enjoy is similar to abstract art. We don’t expect to hear mainly recorded sounds of our everyday life when we listen to music (as we might expect to see mainly recognisable real-world scenes within the visual art we see). We instead expect to hear an emotionally moving composition of relationships (abstract relationships).

For me, there are two basic intentions for creating abstract artwork. One is to explore and play with the relationships of abstract pictorial elements, such as line, colour, shape, direction, texture, tone, gradation, composition, balance, etc., to gain a better understanding of visual communication and emotional connections. The other is to use my understanding of visual elements to pro-actively express a particular idea or emotional situation. What I’m mainly looking for in my abstract explorations, are pleasing relationships of basic picture elements. These explorations are mostly trial and error sessions, deliberating on, and responding to the various combinations of elements that develop within the overall images. The feelings from my visual understanding and subconscious become important for determining what might “work”, or what might “not work”. I have found computers to be marvellous tools for exploring abstract visual relationships. I can produce many elements quickly, and explore different combinations of elements using a medium that doesn't require additional physical materials such as paint, boards, brushes, etc. I can save multiple states of ideas and working, and easily compare and reflect on those saved states afterwards.

When I’m deliberately trying to express an emotional state or idea, development continues until those expressions are felt to have been met successfully, through deliberate attempts at controlling aspects of abstract elements, such as interactions of colour, interactions of shapes, etc.. Often, a pleasing overall combination of elements is also sought.