Focus and Release 3 (in oil)

After completing my most recent pair of Focus and Release titled portraits I felt a strange sense of stagnation, whilst i like them a great deal I felt I had hit a creative plateau with them, this has spuured my decision to commence working in oils again which I have not done for a number of years since my Portrait of a Man series in 2015 and 16. I look forward to seeing how this choice to change paints in my abstract style will impact the rest of my artistic practices, perhaps i will commence doing my realistic portraits and landscapes in oils again. This one is a self portrait of me during the short lived period of stagnation I hit recently.

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I find that my art enables me to express elements of my world that can't necessarily be seen by the naked eye, its an attempt at conveying something a bit intangible. Abstraction is the primary way I communicate my ideas and experiences in art.
The naive and somewhat primitive lines, shapes, colours and textures I use are my attempt at capturing the atmosphere, personality or feeling of a place or person I have encountered in my life, realism or a photograph in my opinion doesn't always capture these elements of the world.
I feel that my art brings these to the surface...it shows the soul of something, somewhere, or someone. Perhaps you will see someone you know within my strange works, maybe even yourself.