23 January 2023 - written by Andy Maitland.

'Imagination in process.'

I have been recording my thoughts as an artist in a journal since 2011. The pandemic caused upheaval and chaos. Creativity often comes from chaos. During the outbreak in Britain in early 2020 some of my journal thoughts and works were posted to my Instagram account and website in the form of audio and video "chapters". Later an online "Digital Novella of iPad drawings, thoughts, video and audio commentary - imagination in process", was accessible right here, on this website (you can still view some of my early abstraction iPad drawings on this website, see below).

Since then my thoughts and works have developed significantly and over the last year (2022) those early ephemeral digital works have now been super-seeded (pun intended) by a perpetual work, a new book, "An Imagined Garden One, iPad drawings, from figurative to abstraction 2011-22".

Recently published, not a retrospective work but a new work of drawings executed in 2021-22, work formed by almost a decade of the daily making of figurative drawings out in the landscape, face to face with my subject, the one hundred and eighty four page book of thoughts and abstraction iPad drawings forms part of a new direction in my work.

Why does an acknowledged artist making figurative drawings start creating abstraction iPad drawings?

View book details and listen to an audio excerpt >