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Otto
£15.00
A friendly and unassuming Octopus, Otto's flowing arms symbolise the hidden nature of ADHD and autism. He's always masking, blending into his surroundings, while his many arms reflect multiple thought streams and sensory experiences happening at once. Textures across the canvas echo heightened perception. He's perched over a bar, restricting his movement, holding him back. He's an emblem of my invisible neurodiversity: complex, highly adaptive, and often unseen.
My figurative paintings explore animals through abstraction, focusing on energy and presence rather than realism. These original abstract animal paintings are created through layered mark-making, allowing forms to emerge naturally through process. The octopus provide a starting point, but the final work evolves through instinct, texture, and colour, creating paintings that feel alive and expressive rather than fixed or literal.
Collectors across the UK are increasingly drawn to abstract animal art for its ability to combine familiarity with emotional openness. These works bring warmth, movement, and individuality into a space while remaining firmly rooted in contemporary abstraction.
Original Canvas
Presentation: canvas board
Year: 2024
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Width: 30cm / 11.8” Hight: 40cm / 15.7”
Fine art prints available in a range of sizes.
Quantity
Original Art & Fine Art Prints Handmade in Oxfordshire
I use a variety of materials in my process. From brushes and pallet knives to cardboard scraps and sticks. My work is largely acrylic paint, whichever brand I can get on offer, and my preffered mediums are either Windsor and Newton or Liquitex.
Once signed and varnished, I photograph my paintings in natural light and crop to standard print sizes, adjusting levels to ensure as accurate a match to the original as possible. Once exported I print on my inkjet Epson P-900 SureColour. Tis a sexy beast.
I print onto a variety of papers, including high gloss and watercolour. My larger prints use satin 260gsm and my extra large prints (A1 & A0) are handled by a top notch local third party printing service I've been working with for years.
