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My art has taken on many forms over the course of my career but I have long been strongly influenced by the movements of CoBrA, Fluxus, and Abstract Expressionism, and the balance between chaos and control that they explore. One of my biggest drivers is to play with and explore the power of seemingly chaotic micro-worlds, and how, together, they build a seemingly coherent macro-reality – as in the way individual notes and pauses come together to form a melodic song.
The natural world is an enormous influence on my artwork both visually and philosophically. I am drawn to the concepts of impermanence in life and entropy and want to help others to explore their own relationship and acceptance of those ideas. I have a strong fascination in exploring the connection between mind and body and the power in spontaneity and free mark-marking and, with my work, try to connect those ideas of purposeful chaos with the delicate and intricate structures that are needed for that freedom to stay in balance.
One of my most recent drives has been to try to understand how to move my creative output away from being solely focused on the single gaze of a single human consumer. What fascinates me more is understanding an ecosystemic approach to creativity – how the work affects those that see/use it, how that affectation influences those around that individual and how the environment around all of those actors, and the work itself, is changed, contributed to or diminished by what we do.
“We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they offer us the primary sensations of touch and sight. But there are also the landscapes we bear with us in absentia, those places that live on in memory long after they have withdrawn in actuality, and such places -- retreated to most often when we are most remote from them -- are among the most important landscapes we possess.” – Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways
- Oil on canvas
- Various sizes
The impact memory has on recalling the world as we’ve experienced it, and the affect emotion has on those memories.
“The landscapes were in my arms as I did it” – Helen Frankenthaler
- Acrylic & Mixed-Media on canvas & Gesso board
- Various sizes
Exploring the connection of humankind with the natural environment and what those landscapes leave with us when we leave them.
“The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joy of love; it is, perhaps, the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment.“ – Dr Colin Murray Parkes
- Mixed-media on Gesso board
- Various sizes
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An expression of loss through the spectrum of emotions that are delivered over and over.
““Your skin does not separate you from the world. It’s a bridge through which the external world flows into you. And you flow into it.” – Alan Watts
- Mixed-Media on canvas, Gesso board & 300gsm card
- Various sizes
The Zen ensō circle, drawn with a single stroke, represents perfect harmony between mind and body. Unfortunately, that's not always attainable. This series subverts that idea to represent my own emotional presence.
“We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.“
– Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Ode
- Mixed-Media on 300gsm Snow White card
- 21 x 29.7cm
A series inspired by songs that I love.