Colour influences our lives at every turn. We decide what colour to paint the walls in our homes, which colour to choose for our car, or...

When the new, pretty striking, portrait of King Charles was unveiled, I was kept entertained for some time by searching and reading...

Hanging my head in shame, I see it has been over a month since I last posted. The past few weeks have not been easy, and I have not felt...

The concise and magnificent words in today's title came from the mouth of Jackson Pollock, one of the greatest, most influential and...

Once again, people, apologies for the change in 'title-style'. I'm still trying to find the format that brings the best engagement to my...

Just a quick post for today, and it's one of those trumpet-blowing ones, I'm afraid! I'm extremely excited and honoured to have been...

May 4th  saw the passing of the prominent American artist Frank Stella. Born in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1936, this highly distinctive...

Good evening to all my readers from a cold, damp UK, where the term 'April Showers' seems to be taking the proverbial, so to speak......

First of all, today's post is the 'weighty eighty' – the eightieth post in this column since its inception twenty months ago. For this...

Greetings to all my followers at what really should be the beginning of Spring here in the UK – how is it in your other respective...

Regular readers will know that a hobby-horse of mine is the – in my view, unfortunate - collective expectation that abstract art must...

In November 2023, I wrote about an important series of paintings that I created during the previous year https://www.artfullyabstractedbl...

Firstly, apologies for the absence of activity in this column for well over a month. I have been going through some stressful times, and...

Just a short post today, about a remarkable artistic lineage which set me thinking this morning. Around 1920, Claude Monet painted a...

In 2021, I produced an oil painting entitled WITHOUT END. It represented, to a degree, a new departure from the approach I was currently...

In my last article of 2023 https://www.artfullyabstractedblog.com/post/shoot I invited suggestions, as I have done before, for future...

First of all, a belated Happy New Year to all my followers. Belated, it is, because ever since New Year I have had a string of colds...

This will probably be the last post of 2023, so may I begin by thanking you all for your support – and input – over the past year. Happy...

A long while ago, when I was languishing in the artistic wilderness, I listened to people who told me that maximum social media exposure...

In 2019, I produced a somewhat hysterical painting, FRACTURED. FRACTURED - Haydn Dickenson (2019) Not long afterwards, I chanced upon the...