Digital Art
In an ongoing effort to increase the level of fractality in my artwork, I have started to use box counting fractal analysis to increase the presence of these calming natural patterns in my drawing. The latest evolution of this work is ‘Nature’s Fractals: Geotags’, a growing series of digital collages that builds upon my ink drawings, combining them with nature photography and manipulating them in Photoshop to create striking mandala-like, kaleidoscopic patterns that embody a specific time and place. I have been playing with ideas of how to capture the spirit of a location in my artwork for a while and this geotags project evolved from a failed idea that used GPS coordinates and a location app that I shall refuse to name.
Each image is named after the location that inspired it. The sky informs the colour palette. Trees and turbulent water dictate the fractal patterns. All combined with hand drawn ink doodles drawn at, or inspired by, the location.
Dodington
Tog Hill
Tortworth
The Ridings
The Old Station
Queen's Square
Dyrham Park
Hockley Heath I
Lilliput I
Lilliput II
Lilliput III
Wild Place I
Wild Place II
The Ridge
Sierra Nevada
Ruislip Manor
The Birds
Gloucester I
Gloucester II
Arnolfini
Fosse Way
Dilhorne
Snake Woodland
Yate Common
Hockley Heath I
Digital collage
2024
Where can I buy prints of this series?
For the Nature’s Fractals: Geotags series I have partnered with L’Étoile Studio in Bristol to sell high quality limited and open edition giclée prints from £25.
Commission a Nature’s FractalS: GeotaG
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Couldn’t you just us AI to make these patterns?
Whilst the use of generative artificial intelligence has become part of my practice, the above digital collages surprisingly have been produced with no AI involvement at all. For comparison, a text-to-image model has been trained on these artworks using Exactly.ai. This model produces images that lack the organic feel that comes from intuitive ink drawing combined with tree branching.
Comparison of an image made using a text-to-image model trained on the above artworks and then edited (left) with the digital collage Sierra Nevada (right).
