Large Panel Gallery

Below are some photos and images that detail a selection of the large traditional format spray-paintings that I have produced.

The spray-paintings are created on cradled wooden panels, and are mostly now in private collections.

I am showing here the finished abstract paintings, the printed work stencils as well as some of the final work drawings.

Thanks for exploring, WS.

The original paper artwork for 'Melting Houses' which was printed and converted into a spray-paint stencil. 🔼Work Drawing...Painting🔽 Close up detail of spray-painting Melting Habitat. 🔼Melting Houses

A large abstract stencilled spray painting titled ‘American beaver’ by WallShapes. 🔼American Beaver

🔼Dawn Thorns

a spray painting titled ‘leisure’ with spray painted carpet details. stencilled onto handmade wooden cradled panel. abstract colourful spray painting ttled leisre hanging in artists studio. spray paint cans on the floor. 🔼Leisure

Amongst many other artists I think my main visual artistic influences have been Gilbert and George (i really like the outlines that they use in their works) and David Hockney (for his compositions and colour works). I've always wanted to use carpet in a work after seeing the powerful mixed-media artworks that Robert Mapplethorpe had used some in, so I used it in this painting, albeit spray-painted.

Abstract spray-painting on a cradled wooden panel, depicting eyes, a gold disc and fluid spills on a graduated back ground. 🔼Pop(s)

One of the benefits of working with spray-paints is having the inbuilt speciality lines such as metallics, fluorescents, glitters and glows amongst others. It's also possible to mix colours for the exact shade you want by introducing drifts of colours onto the top of other colours on the surface of the painting itself!

a concentration of abstract goldfish floating in a tank. spray painting on a wooden cradled panel. gloss varnished. 🔼Goldfish Tank

The paper stencil of a colorful abstract artwork of hands,hair and a crown on a blue background. 🔼Original drawing + Getting spray-painted..🔽🔽...The finished painting A spray painting on a wooden panel, hands, crown, cuffs, letting go! Colorful art piece with light dots a crown and hands on a textured surface. close up detail of raw and gloss spray paints. spray painting ‘let go!’ 🔼Let Go

Let Go is one of the paintings that I have displayed at the lovely Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry. I like the raw, rough paint on the smooth polished background, and it's about a figure who's just started to 'let go'.

A large spray painting, painted using paper stencils on a handmade wooden cradled panel. colourful and abstract.

An abstract spray painting titled Power on a handmade cradled wooden panel. colourful and decorative. If i varnish a painting it's usually applied very thickly and then sanded and polished to a smooth gloss finish afterwards. Detail of an abstract spray painting titled Power on a handmade cradled wooden panel. colourful and decorative. 🔼Power

Spray-paints can be ideal for manipulating the surface texture. Here I built the paint up fairly thick in places and then heavily wet-sanded those areas down because I wanted a degraded and eroded appearance in the image. I then applied a really thick polished varnish to achieve a rich fine finish!

Spray painting of 8 abstract canary birds on a blue background with green edge boarder. A spray painting of 6 abstract canary birds on a blue background with green edge boarder. Painting shown in situ of artist studio during it's painting. 🔼Canaries

Surface detail of a large stencilled abstract spray painting titled 'The Picnic at the End of Time' photographed in WallShapes Warwickshire studios. 🔼The Picnic (at the end of time)

A group of cute hungry vampires feasting as soon as the sun is set. A stencil for a spray-painting by artist WallShapes. 🔼Vampires

An abstract image spray painted onto a wooden panel. Grays, blue and matte gold.

🔼I like the look of simple line designs, i think they can be just as interesting and pleasing as a really complex image, and they can take just as long to create because of the challenge of balancing shapes and colours.

spray painted panel with digital surround large panel spray painting with abstract image of swimmers 🔼The Swimmers (spit-string)

The artist's interpretation of The Swimmers :

"Simple maps turning our everyday pleasures into mournful regrets. Crisp lines lay lazy like a creamy summer tennis match, emotions overflow, push and pull, in this watery overture to a crumpled summer with comfortable soft covers on a mysterious patio."

🔼Work Drawing...Finished painting🔽 colourful spray painting on a cradled panel. standing on the artists studios floor. 🔼Blue Wave

large colourful abstract panel spray painting with pink, gray, peach and red. 🔼 The Girl

Large scale panel, colourful abstract UFO attack.

gamer gems, gemstones. A large panel spray painting. 🔼Computer Gems

🔼The Launch

large panel painting using templates on surface.

🔼I sometimes like to incorporate paper prints into my paintings and spray around and over them depending on the design of the image I want.

🔼Stencil....Painting🔽

An abstract spray painting titled Venus, showing an abstract portrait of a female figure observing crucifixes in a hilly landscape, painted on a wooden cradled panel. colours are metallic silver, red pink, black, metallic textured gold, yellow, blues and oranges. The painting is Varnished in a smooth gloss. 🔼Venus/Mary/Mother.

This is one of the first spray-paintings on panels that I produced, and going from big stencils to much more compact ones and not having too many paint bleeds and undersprays was a steep learning curve!

More later...Thanks for looking, WS.