Auto Amor Project show, Kent

Excited to reveal the lineup of artists for the inaugural Auto Amor Project exhibition! Join us for an afternoon of art, tea, coffee, and light bites as we unveil the works at our gallery in Dunton Green on Saturday, April 12, from 1–3 PM.

About the project: Each artist was given a panel to create work anonymously—stripping away names and expectations to embrace pure artistic freedom. The Auto Amor Project offers collectors the chance to own unique pieces by contemporary artists at an accessible price. 

The works are available to buy from the Auto Amor website using this link.

Different Shades of January Blues

The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possessed by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it’s your whole soul.

Landscapes of the Heart, Motojiro Kajii

So January is dragging its heels, in the northern hemisphere anyway. It’s been so cold and wet and (seemingly eternally) so so grey. The dog still needs walking but the daylight is so squeezed that it’s a military mission to fit it all in. The mud fight is real!

sunset.placed.logs 2025 Canvas on Panel, 31x25cm

But once out, it's totally worth the effort and the walk I do regularly along a disused railway track feels a million miles away from the chaotic city I live in. I get most of my inspiration for my paintings when I'm out walking. Maybe it’s the slowness of the pace and its rhythm makes me notice the small details. I take 100s of pictures of random moments and eventually a few of them become paintings, like this rather Romantic skip in the sky, my first painting of 2025. These pictures are serendipitous moments of banality, three fridges dumped alongside a bin bag on a street corner for example. Somehow these subjects feel worthy of spending a few hours painting. 

patrol.unless.slap 2024 Oil on Canvas Panel, 30x40

My new Scuzzy Landscape series has grown to over 30 paintings now. The paintings abstract three word names refer to their what3words location where the viewer is standing. Every three metre square of the entire planet (including the oceans) has been given its own unique three  word combination. And this is where I’d love you to help….

CALL OUT FOR YOUR IMAGES

Can you name something beautiful or interesting you’ve seen lately?

I’d like to widen my search for images. So if you’d like to help contribute to my Scuzzy Landscape series, you can email me a picture or two,  or as many as you like. The rules - there aren’t so many really - it should be a landscape in its widest definition where there’s some kind of man-made intervention in the natural landscape, or nature has infiltrated the urban or manmade in a surprising way. If possible, send me the exact what3words location where the photo is taken at the same time via their app. If this is not possible, send a location from your smartphone map. I can’t promise I’ll paint it (unless it’s a commission 😁) but if I do, you will get an source image credit when it’s exhibited. 

If you’d like to see more Scuzzy Landscapes for inspiration go here.
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