HELLO AGAIN! I have been locked out of this blog page for a few years - is it ironic, as so much of my work is about AI and technology? Anyway I got it back so here's a heads up as to where to find me and what's going on. My website is https://www.johncroninstudio.com/ and my Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/johncroninstudio/ I have a new body of work, ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY, which will be exhibited at the Green on Red Gallery in March 2024. More to come later..... The new body of work is ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY here is a bit about it. The ABC paintings are a witness to their coming into being – a process at once slick and crude, with elements of the works breaking down both compositionally and in their very materiality – once-luscious oil paint is cracked, dried and exhausted, arid patches vie with free-flowing organic rivers of paint, watched over by morphing, pathologising and destructive elements. The colours, while less kaleidoscopic than in previous works,