The format of paintings displayed In today’s crit, some of the comments about the work were aimed on the format of the paintings, how they are displayed etc. One of the comments mentioned how the painting’s cropped format makes the […]
It’s the start of a new year and the start of new art work. Currently I am visiting my repository of photographs and cropping these in different ways – fragments of fragments in a sense and seeing how I alternatively […]
Keep Going A couple of studio sessions this week, so some more progress on the painting. Pleased with it so far: Very excited that I’ve a new joint exhibition coming up. It’ll open in March and run for eight weeks. […]
Marwan’s practice is said to be defined as a continual process of internal burrowing. That impulse to locate and translate an inner state of being ties together a neo-expressionist perspective on the healing properties of art and painting. Marwan’s work […]
Suitable for the backwards/forwards looking nature of January, I’ve titled the painting completed last week ‘Hindsight’. Here’s a better quality photo of it (taken with both daylight and studio lighting) Looking forward, I’ve created a new series of images to […]
Completed the latest painting today – the first of the (not so) 2022. I’m hoping for a more productive new year, but given the circumstances I’m not worrying about it too much… Anyway, happy with the outcome of this (so […]
An exhibition of paintings and drawings on show at the Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham. Hampshire. Runs until 25th February!
The artwork that Im working on at the moment is a connection between mediums. The mediums used in it will be projection and a oil painting. Main idea of this project is to literally connect those two. A video will […]
A brief but productive time painting in the studio this week. Realised some of the positioning and proportion was out. Having adjusted, I found it helps define the attitude of the head more accurately: The next exhibition to look out […]
Very happy to get a new painting underway this week. You can watch it develop…
London based artist Karl Bielik‘s paintings have been in numerous high profile exhibitions, including John Moores Painting Prize, RA Summer Show, and The Marmite Prize. He is a member of Contemporary British Painting and is the Founder and Director of […]
Latest from the studio
Curated by Alistair Hicks at The In and Out, a prestigious private members club in Mayfair, this exhibition reveals Joana Galego and Marcus Cope’s latest paintings.
Aleph Contemporary curates an exhibition of paintings by ten contemporary artists on the subjects of dreams and the ephemeral.
Cool water. Reflective, impenetrable. It reluctantly catches the limpid light. But I can still feel the cold seeping, creeping. The rats. They gather together by the banks. Trembling amongst the paper cups and crisp packets. Sheltered from the damp of […]
After re-reading the notes and comments by the viewers/peers, I’ve decided to paint two more paintings using the photographs exhibited for the crit. Its going well so far and these are the paintings in progress: update 15.11.2021 Finishing the paintings […]
