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Abstract 18

This abstract image is a more minimal approach to some of my other pieces of work, but I have chosen to use very thick lines of paint along with larger bodies of paint blending together to create more balance to the eye.

I have used acrylics for this piece and decided to keep the colours basic and without any mixing to alter the tones.

The colours of red, white, and black are very primal, where as the green represents a very natural earthy blend to the mix.

All of my abstract artwork can be viewed on INK Ltd's website, along with comic strips, magazines, collage imagery, videos, music, and much more.

To view all of INK Ltd's alternative kultural output, along with all links to blogs, music, and literature go to www.instantnowhere.com and subscribe to an Instant Nowhere Universe.


By Heston Quiff

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Abstract 12

Here we have an abstract image that is available along with all of my other work on INK Ltd's website at www.instantnowhere.com and via our Deviant Art page which can be also found on INK Ltd's website.

The abstract image above was created using watercolours, marker pens, pencils, fine line pens, and coloured crayons.

My inspiration for the above abstract image was again from the graffiti artists of New York, and specifically the Hip Hop scene from the late eighties.

The above image is available in many different sizes, and is also available as stickers, magnets, and many other mediums including canvases.

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By Heston Quiff

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Abstract 17

This abstract image was created whilst listening to an improvisation by experimental band 'The Harridans'.

I really enjoy listening to music when I am creating my artwork, and for me some of my favourite work has been created whilst listening to music by 'The Harridans'.

The track that I was listening to by 'The Harridans' was called 'The smelling corridor of History', and is a very stark, lengthy improvisation, but with flashes of optimism littered throughout the composition.

The blue panels of colour and line are the drum parts, whilst the black lines are the guitar parts that splice everything together. Vocals are represented using red line, and the flashes of optimism are the green background colours.

Angular key changes and tempo changes throughout the songs, and improvisations of the Harridans are a real inspiration when creating abstract artwork.

For more information on 'The Harridans' and all other creative outputs visit the INK Ltd website at www.instantnowhere.com for a complete Kultural alternative.


By Heston Quiff

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Abstract 16

Here we have another abstract piece of artwork that was created whilst listening to the experimental band 'The Harridans'.

The track this time was called 'Law is will' and is one of my favourites of all their songs.

From a dynamics point of view the abstract piece of artwork mimics the flashes of rage within the song as well as the carefully spaced changes in tempo and volume.

This time the blood red sections are the vocals as they are filled with venom and rage. The black lines are the drum parts that weave around the vocals in a tight yet jagged fashion. As for the guitar parts these are represented by the pastel coloured lines, as well as the blue streaks weaving throughout.

Again I have used Many different types of pens, colours, markers, and watercolour pencils to create this piece of abstract artwork.


By Heston Quiff

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Abstract 15

This abstract piece of artwork was created whilst listening to a track by an experimental band called 'The Harridans'.

The name of the track is 'Murder to the beat' and starts off with a lengthy improvised intro of drums and guitar, which then launches into a heavy repititious tribal drum rhythm, accompanied by a very linear guitar part that threads through the whole track.

Vocals also help to pin down the experimental feel, whilst adding some very dark elements to give the song more conceptual weight.

In the abstract piece of artwork the black lines represent the vocals, the blood red sections are the drum rhythm, all of the lighter pastel tones are the linear guitar part, and all of the other colour shadings are the improvised sections.

The tiny gaps of light within the piece refer to the only section of the song that is in 4/4 time.

Everything else within the song are played in very angular odd time signatures.


By Heston Quiff


 

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Abstract 14

This abstract piece of artwork was created whilst on holiday in Menorca.

Secluded bays, amazing views, incredible weather, clear blue seas, and friendly atmosphere all end up in this abstract piece of artwork.

Wish I was there now (Snow outside and freezing).

I have used an assortment of coloured pens, markers, and water colour crayons to create this piece of abstract art.


By Heston Quiff

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Abstract 11

This abstract piece of artwork was inspired by the viewings through a microscope of different types of cells in the human body on a science programme.

The slightly translucent overlaying of cells looked really abstract to me at the time and infinitely complex, yet beautiful in a serene way.

All of the natural flowing movements of the cells made me realise how even the smallest layer of life has grace and value.

I have used water colours mainly as well as some inks, fine line pens, and round nibbed marker pens to help merge the colours together.


By Heston Quiff

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Abstract 10

This is one of my favourite abstract images to date, and was created after viewing some of the amazing work created by Kandinsky.

The colours used by Kandinsky are what inspired me more than anything to do this piece of abstract artwork. Of course the brilliance in Kandinsky's work is in many aspects of what he creates, but for some reason it's the mix of colours that draw me in more than anything else.

I would love to be able to paint like Kandinsky, but alas I do not posses the skill necessary to do so. I do however love to mix, layer, and experiment with colour and materials in an abstract way, and hopefully this piece of abstract artwork, directly inspired by Kandinsky's work reflects this approach.

My love for pure expression is what drives me to create. I hope this piece in some way inspires somebody to create in a similar way.


By Heston Quiff

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Abstract 9

Here we have a piece of abstract art that was created after watching a great documentary on graffiti artists.

This along with 5 other images are abstract interpretations of the wonderful art form that is graffiti.

I have used coloured marker pens of varying thickness, along with fine line pens, and pencils to create this image.

Graffiti is still far too underrated as an art form, and although I am not technically able to create the type of intricate pieces many graffiti artists do, I enjoy the freedom of self expression that is at the heart of many pieces of graffiti.

By Heston Quiff

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Abstract 5

This abstract piece of artwork was created on a very cold, wet, and downright miserable day late 2011.

It is nothing like any of my other pieces of abstract artwork, and even I was surprised at the coldness that emanates from it.

That said I still really like this abstract piece of artwork as it is such a contrast to all my other pieces, and really does stand out like a sore thumb when it is viewed next to them.

I used Oils and acrylics on 8ft by 4ft hardboard to create this piece, and if you look closely you may even notice a piece of grey cable that I stuck to the image for added colour and texture.

Take a look at the INK Ltd website at www.instantnowhere.com for more info on all my artwork, as well as all the other artists and alternative kulture affiliates work.


By Heston Quiff

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Abstract Art 8

This piece of abstract art was created to try and reflect the intertwining layers of reality and subsequent routes between the many different dimensional layers that exist around, beneath, and in between our 'Nuts and bolts' level of reality that we are told we exist in un-attached to anything else in a kind of 'Molecular solitude'.

The colours I have used are to try and create the feeling of different layers of dimensional light that exist alongside each other, and the darker lines are the more solid routes of light, or pathways of light that connect between individual dimensions.

In a way everything is connected, even though at first it may not be visible, tangible, or in any way clear as to the possible connection. But regardless of the seemingly un-related nature of existence, what is clear is that threading everything together, through the layers of dimensional light and reality, through the physical 'Nuts and bolts' layer of reality we believe to be the only one we are a part of, is an unseen energy that binds us together with an infinite level of energy.

I believe that this infinite level of energy that links us together like an outstretched hand can be summed up in one word: Consciousness.

The greater the level of consciousness, the closer we will move to understanding what it is that makes us what we truly are.

Art of all mediums are about the quest for enlightenment.

When we are enlightened we become far more conscious of not only ourselves and other people, but our surroundings and what our true goals are in life.

When I create abstract pieces of art I feel like I am on an unplanned journey with no clue as to where I am going, or if there actually is an end destination to the journey. In some ways the journey has already been taken. In other ways we have reached the end destination but have failed even to notice.


By Heston Quiff

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Abstract 7

Here we have another abstract piece of artwork from the bowels of INK house studios.

The piece was created after spotting some really interesting and random graffiti on a wall in Cairo last summer.

All of the colours had bleached in the searing Egyptian sun giving the piece of graffiti in places a watered down look to it.

There was no form to the piece of graffiti from an academic point of view, but it was clear that in other ways the person who created the piece of graffiti had a great eye for the abstract form.

Either way to find a piece of abstract graffiti on a wall in Cairo was very odd, and also really interesting as it proves that no matter where you are in the world, there will always be somebody creating a piece of art.

The piece of abstract artwork that I have created is again postcard sized, and I have used coloured marker pens mainly, as well as a few coloured fine line pens for depth.

                                                                                                                  By Heston Quiff

Luxury is?

Collage 3

This collage splits the world of luxury into pieces for the pointless, superficial indulgence that it is.

Cemented amongst the fragments of luxury, expense, and name brands are images that show how luxurious lifestyles seem to sit comfortably amongst the poverty of the world without even batting an eye lid.

It is almost as if the super indulgent, self obsessed, Capitalist ideals have rendered the whole world blind to the actual existence of poverty itself.

Capitalism has created a self-centred monster, unable to see the true horror of it's obscene nature and greed filled ways.

                                                                                                              By Heston Quiff

Out of the Urban flows the face of a Human

Arise ye slaves!

Living within the urban sprawl of London and listening to the everyday conversations from people walking the streets can be a claustrophobic and disenchanting experience, though perhaps less so than living in a rural area. The sights, the sounds, the breath, the tastes, the touch, the oddness, the obscurity, the houses piled upon one another, the people living next to each other with no space to hide, the endless concrete sky, the towering and totally flat buildings, the extremely modern, the extremely ancient, chaotic mix and refined minimalistic logic. It will be the baroque that defines the next twenty years. Overload of existence, of the human condition tinkered with by insane scientists, a community forum of bio-technologists who double up as a lollipop man in his spare time, or a till worker at Sainsbury. What used to be a profession is now a modern hobby. Science has been found out and caught up with. Experience a complete renaissance in discovering new life forms.

That is what this picture is about.

A human face is no longer human.

An urban space is no longer just urban.

By Raygun

Toast and Marmalade

Tears slowly rolled down the cheeks of the fat boys arse as he contemplates what life could be like with no face and a wagon full of toast and marmalade freshly spread by the nimble hands of two sultry and fine slender black virgins scantily clad in see-through sequin shell suits and wearing dirty rain caps yet hunchbacked due to the ever burdening demands of the fat boys endless appetite for more toast and marmalade which has destroyed all but one of the last layers of the Bolivian rainforest left to man yet has been unable to gouge silk moth chrysalis from out of the dainty ballerina serpentine clip clip clippers soft hands and as you can imagine this is something the greedy fat toast and marmalade oaf finds too much for his sorry lard soul to bare

You can find him
Rolling around
Like a beached whale
In the summertime
In the rain

And you can find him
Completely naked
Like a huge translucent jelly
In the summertime
In the rain

But when it is wintertime
With the icy showers bold
You will find him
Cowering in the corner
Of his bedroom
Sunken and cold

This piece of abstract cut-up also has a short poem attached at the end.

The poem was written in 2005, and the abstract cut-up was created not long after this.

Even though both pieces were created separately from each other when put together they seem to work quite nicely to balance up the complete piece.

                                                                                                        By Spartacus Mole

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Abstract triptych: Part 3

And finally here is part 3 of my abstract triptych.

When all three are put together I hope that I have in some way been able to convey through this abstract triptych a sense of the freedom, rawness, and at times beauty that graffiti brings to the art world. 

                                                                                                           By Heston Quiff

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Abstract triptych: Part 2

Here we have part 2 of my abstract triptych.


                                                                                                             By Heston Quiff

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Abstract triptych: Part 1

This abstract piece of artwork is actually the first section, looking from left to right, of an abstract triptych that I have created.

I was unable to upload all three pieces together as I would have prefered, so I will post each part of the triptych individualy starting with part 1.

This triptych has been created using an assortment of coloured marker pens of varying thickness, as well as pencil, and fineline pens.

The reason I created this triptych was purely as a result of watching an amazing documentary on New york graffiti artists. The artistic abilities of the graffiti artists were incredible and I feel that graffiti as an art form is still massively underated.

My main goal was to try and create the mix of colours, as well as the feel of a spray can being used in a primitive, yet seriously creative way on a random piece of wall.

All pieces of the triptych are postcard sized, and were created on one large piece of plain card before being cut down to their individual sizes.

                           
                                                                                                         By Heston Quiff        

The Armoured Arsehole

The armoured arsehole gunned down ten rows of soiled pants as it trundled through piles and piles of piles littering the floor with a wanton disregard for cleanliness and hygiene as it went onwards eyes clacking like gun dog scrotum slapping crying buckets as it neared ceramic relief on large doses of carbon misery befell its sorry arse all metal clunk leaving the armoured arsehole rusty like weasels murdered all red in large pools of gooey shitty blood slowly congealing over the blue carpet awaiting loin cloth skiddies aimed with fruit flan vigour vigour vigourish in toon pastry run rabbit to thinners and tunnels laced with the razor pond scapula in lemon souffle in a gondola pissed and being furiously sucked off she ran bras rolling with hot fingers then flashing back to reveal skulking shapes in the distance which when viewed with neon binoculars shows the harsh and translucent shape of a large rusty armoured arsehole trundling slowly through a vomit napalm web of insular and cellular decrepidness

What a brave man he was
General iron lung
Fighting for his country
Murdering all who stood in his way

He could nuke a village before breakfast
And still have time for tea
Dropping napalm made him hard
Something his wife could never achieve

What a brave man he was
General iron lung
What a brave man he was
General iron lung
What a brave man he was
General iron lung
What a brave man he was
General iron lung


This abstract cut-up consists of 2 pieces of prose, and a section from a song I have written all of which were created in summer 1999.

One of the pieces of prose that was used for this particular abstract cut-up has already been used in a previous abstract cut-up, hence the familiar repetition of certain phrases within the piece.

                                                                                                             By Spartacus Mole

Alamo state of mind

What am I thinking?

This collage is about being surrounded by many different thoughts and images on a daily basis resulting in a kind of 'Alamo state of mind' for the individual.

Deciding what images to concentrate on, or what to think depends on many different aspects of an individuals mind, and also their personality.

In a subliminal way we are being steered towards a certain image, and our response to it is also being decided for us without even being fully aware of it.

The huge corporations like for example 'Mcdonalds', or as I like to put it 'Mcbollocks', use all the tricks in the subliminal brainwashing trade to do the thinking for you such as using jingles, sigil encrypted logos, colour, symmetry, and repetition.

As the above is the case how can we prove that any of our thoughts, even the ones being typed here right now are our own?

This is the quandary that the individual in the collage faces.

Are his thoughts his own?

Or are they the thoughts of somebody else?

                                                                                                                    By Heston Quiff