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Shifting Landscape

Visual Art & Photography

via Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand

Digital Paint

Dense abstract digital painting of overlapping black silhouette-like shapes, jagged white bursts, and orange, blue, red and grey forms packed tightly across the surface.
An Open Fire Spreads in the Deep, Dark Wood (2025)

Digital Paint gathers a shifting selection of digital works made by hand through colour, line, texture, pattern and layered marks. It includes completed pieces, experiments, works in progress and images that may later move into more defined series.

The works often begin without fixed outcomes. Forms gather through drawing, painting, layering, erasure, repetition and reworking, allowing figures, masks, landscapes, structures and abstract spaces to appear, dissolve and return. Some images remain close to pattern and surface, while others lean towards bodies, faces, architecture, weather or strange narrative fragments.

Although made digitally, these works sit in conversation with drawing, painting, collage and the wider photographic practice. They share an interest in emergence through process: images forming through accumulation, accident, pressure, revision and partial recognition rather than from fully settled plans.

The collection below grows through occasional posts, gathering individual paintings, small groups, experiments and older works brought back into view as they are added.

  • Abstract digital artwork with layered reds, golds, and blacks suggesting ruins, smoke, fragmented bodies, and a dark sun within chaotic textured forms.
    Black Sun Rising (2023)

  • Colourful abstract digital painting of a goat-like form among tulip-like shapes, with vivid red, pink, turquoise and blue layers creating a dense, dreamlike garden.
    Old Goat In Tulips Growing Wild (2025)

  • A digital abstract painting in magenta, red, orange, and yellow, with white line-drawn figures emerging and dissolving across a densely layered surface of black and coloured marks.
    Ghosts Of Gaza (2024)

  • Square abstract digital painting showing a dark brown archway shape flanked by solid red panels under a band of deep blue containing white ring-like marks, with textured ochre rectangles below, emphasising granular surface detail.
    Untitled Landscape IV (2018)

  • Abstract digital painting of two large, pale outlined vessel-like forms set against a deep blue and rust-red background, overlaid with dark grey grid-patterned shapes and thin red contour lines.
    Drowned Amphora (2020)

  • Abstract digital painting of a warm red and orange field overlaid with teal halftone patterns resolving into fragmented silhouettes of a portable generator and hand drills, framed by thick gestural brushstrokes against dark shadows.
    Power Tools (2021)

  • Abstract digital painting featuring broad fields of saturated lemon yellow overlaid on a shifting background of deep blues and violets, with dark blue rectangular outlines, a rust-red eye-like shape, and loose pink and white scribbles suggesting wires or circuitry.
    Tech Head (2020)

  • Abstract digital painting of fragmented geometric and curved forms in violet, pink, blue, red, black and white, layered with dotted patterns and rough textures that suggest a dense, broken cityscape.
    Alpenglow and Fading Light Across The Ruined City (2025)
  • Abstract digital painting in black, cream, grey, slate blue and brown-orange, with overlapping jagged shapes, dark vertical bands, mottled textures and rising flame-like strokes suggesting a burning city.
    Burning City (2025)
  • Chaotic abstract painting with jagged black, crimson, and gold forms suggesting ruined trees, scorched forest debris, and violent movement through a devastated landscape.
    Ruined Forest (2024)
  • Vibrant abstract painting resembling a large blocky head, with intertwined blue, orange, and red forms layered through chaotic lines and patterned textures.
    Stargazer (2024)
  • Abstract digital painting of two prominent, circular eye-socket forms—one warm orange/red, one cool blue/white—suggesting a skull face, set against a dark navy ground and crossed by energetic strokes of bright blue, white and crimson.
    Hedonist 2

  • Abstract digital painting featuring a large white and grey skull-like form set against bright blue and mustard yellow, overlaid with thick red looping lines and broad sweeping magenta brushstrokes.
    Landscape with Skull (2022)
  • Abstract digital painting of interlocking black, deep blue, white and orange-red shapes, with blocky silhouettes, jagged fragments and symbol-like forms suggesting movement, collision and disruption.
    Exploding Parts Last Dance (2025)

  • Abstract digital painting with large black silhouetted forms in the foreground against a textured background of gold, pale grey-blue and muted ochre geometric and weathered marks.
    Midnight in the Garden (2025)
  • Dense abstract digital painting with layered orange, blue, black, pink, grey and white shapes, symbols and fragments suggesting creatures, maps, signs and coded forms.
    This Way Up, Then Revelations Come To Pass (2025)

  • Square abstract digital painting dominated by a large black void surrounded by vivid red brushstrokes, with vertical stripes of ochre and teal visible behind, overlaid with sweeping pink and blue gestures, highlighting transparency and opacity contrasts.
    Untitled Landscape III (2018)

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