Geo / Fossil Pattern Abstracts

2024 A short series I made in which I wanted to showcase certain patterns I was finding in fossils and geological formations.

Gryphaea

2023 I took a fossil hunting trip to the Isle of Skye, where (in the Jurassic-age rocks around Broadford) I encountered mass death plates of Gryphaea fossils. These extinct shallow-water bivalves lived mainly in the Triassic and Jurassic, and were somewhat like oysters. Back at home reviewing photo’s I had taken, I was intrigued by …

Grey Abstracts

2024 I wanted to revisit a lot of reoccurring themes that I had used in over the last few years in my digital abstract work, now that I had used and thought about them a lot – the use of a grey ground as a foil for a complex colour palette, ‘cloud-like’ interwoven detail, wandering …