the colours and shapes of lockdown
Most of my art is created from my own photographs. I never leave home without carrying at least one camera. I am at my happiest when I am wondering round cities, discovering new gems. finding new angle, shapes and colours. I get become embarrassingly excited if I stumble across an abstract pattern when I’m out and about.
When lockdown began, with travel and even going out serverely curtailed, I found my avenues of artistic inspiration closed off. I realise this isn’t important at all in the great scheme of things, given the situation, and the immense suffering and hardship for many people.
But, apart from the artistic inspiration, wondering around camera in hand is one of my tried and tested methods for keeping my head above water. It’s no secret that exercise outdoors is great for mental health. And for an artist like me who spends a great deal of time working on their own it is especially important. Focus in camera. Focused in mind.
In my own bubble my one-a-day lockdown walks became increasingly important as isolation stetched into the future, Without being able to access high buildings, river boats and helicopters (poor diddums), I began to take a closer look around me, looking for the beauty in even the most mundane things.
with sunsets shimmering on the Thames and the hypnotic patterns of rippling water. And don’t even get me started on shadows and silhouettes.
Here are a few of my favourite images captured on my lockdown walks…
(You can see more lockdown images in my fluffy things, and things I think I saw blogs - be prepared for some poetry and ‘not very artistic but very cute fluffy things’. #sorrynotsorry
