A slow, occasional record of work in progress — studio notes, process, and things half-finished.

ArtUniver is not a gallery and not a shop. It's a place to write down what a piece looked like before it was resolved, and sometimes after.

Field notes

On leaving a canvas unfinished on purpose

Some of the most honest marks happen in the second before you decide a piece is done. A short note on why we've started photographing works mid-process, not just at completion.

Material

What five years of oxidised pigment looks like

A slow-motion study of copper-based pigment shifting colour over five years in open air, photographed at the same angle every spring.

Studio

A week of working without a fixed palette

What happens when you limit yourself to whatever paint is already open on the table, no matter how it clashes. Notes from a week-long constraint.

Field notes

Drawing the same tree in four seasons

A small, ongoing series — same location, same time of day, once a season. The interesting part isn't the tree, it's what changes in the hand doing the drawing.

About

Written and photographed irregularly by a small, changing group of people who make things and occasionally write about making them.

No submissions process, no mailing list, no comments. If you want to reach us, the contact details are on the archive page.