New Portfolio
- josephdavidblack
- Mar 12
- 2 min read
March 2026
I finally got around to including a new portfolio section to my website featuring work from 2017-2026. It brings together over eight years of work in one place, showing how the ideas and visual language of my practice has evolved over time.
I started working as a full time artist at the end of 2017 when I moved to Kent from London. Since then I have worked on various creative projects from exhibitions, public installations, fashion collaborations, and commission pieces. Looking back across these years, I can see a clear shift in style and approach. Earlier pieces feel more exploratory, testing materials, forms, and ways of thinking through images. These images often feel less concrete and more ambiguous. Over time my work has gradually become more focused, and certain themes and visual structures have started to repeat and develop.
Art itself recurs often as a theme and as a way through which we mythologise and understand the natural world. Ultimately, I think my work considers how we encounter the living world through systems of representation, and how those systems shape not only how we see but how we perceive. The landscape and natural environments, like painting itself, reveal continuous dialogues between memory and perception.
What has been nice about seeing the work together like this is the continuity of ideas. Even as the style changes, many of the same underlying concerns keep reappearing, sometimes in more refined or distilled forms.
Putting my portfolio together has become a way of tracing my development, seeing how experiments have led to recurring motifs, how certain compositions or processes stayed consistent, and how others slowly transformed.
If you’d like to take a look, you can explore the portfolio here:
I’d love to hear what connections or changes you notice across the work.
Thank you for following along with my journey.
Joseph x






















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