Eye of The Storm 06

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I am an artist based in Yorkshire. I create paintings, prints and drawings that explore notions of epiphany, and how personal ‘epiphanies’ can be translated into formal abstraction. I use cellular-like shapes to convey ideas about the nature and perception of space. Often these cellular shapes become eyes which represent awareness and consciousness.



What rests at the core of my work is a desire to see images and forms that I have not seen before. I do this by fusing archetypal symbols and motifs with the optical effects of pure geometry. My overall concern is with images that relate to the inner landscape of attentive experience, in particular, feelings, sensations and emotions that are experienced directly in the body. Translating this ‘inner’ landscape into imaginative pictures is a continually evolving pursuit but is often characterised by circular and elliptical patterning.

Symbolically the circles and ellipses often refer to eyes. Eyes in a direct representational sense as pictures of eyes with all the symbolic notions that eyes refer too.

Perceiving form, space, colour and tone, what it means to be an embodied human being, flesh and blood, living and breathing and subject to the physical change of time. In a more abstract sense the circles and ellipses act as points of energy. They act as instances of activity which can be used visually as building blocks to be ordered and combined in an infinite number of ways. These building block cells, can then be used to discover new forms when combined in creative and imaginative ways.