I made small films as far back as 1992 mainly as teaching aids, from 1996 to 2014 I made a wide variety of animated films. In 2019 I started to make the blue line films, it was a progression from the painting and drawing I was doing. Film seamed to follow the idea of the abstract the suggested better than other means. I have made the films as minimal as possible some are good for meditation and others more stimulating. All of these films are silent it’s good to watch with your own choice of music.
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This film is the first I finished as a work on it’s own, after many experiments over many months. I was working from video I shot from a river, after this all the other films are much more abstract.
All of these films are silent by choice. I play them with different music depending on my mood, I like the idea you share this part of the creative process.
I hope you find like me it will not take long for the films to trigger images, often faces come first this is just the way the imagination works.
They are also best seen at full screen, the lines are optimised to play best on 4K or HD TVs, I also watch them on a pad this works well and is good for having a quiet minute.
I also leave them running on a TV as an image you just catch every now and again. This is art not just a screen saver, but how you use them is your choice. They will run from my website, from Vimeo and you can download them from Vimeo if you want.
Abstract film has the quality that you get from a painting you have lived with for a long time, you will continue to find new layers of meaning. It’s you that finds this not the artist the artist just prepares the ground for you to find and develop.