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Current themes
My artwork is often concerned with personal meanings and tensions between human scale values and earth scales. I often like to frame an idea like a ‘cartoon’ with simple elements in a unique conflict.
I am inspired by shapes and the space behind them, the tension between scales. I zoom out and zoom in, taking myself to the edge of a discovery.
I'm currently working on a series of paintings which I regard as a form of natural abstraction that reinterprets natural forms using a reductive, hard edged technique that throws out soft transitions to force a kind of tension in the resolution of the visual image. I call this the AVM Series (animal, vegetable, mineral) because it deliberately removes or alters some of the visual conventions with which we identify things in nature, hopefully then pushing this agreed interpretation toward something else, something more fluid.
Ancient themes
A common thread that connects what I do in the visual arts realm as well as being the underlying driver across several other creative endeavors it would be the notions of myth and symbolism. Not in the abstract and distant, but in the here and now, living and ever present sense.
I very often find myself working with the archaic ideas of harmonics, structure, dimensions and time perception while searching for their places of connection and expression with our mental and emotional lives and a psychology of our embodied energies.
There is a great deal of valuable data concealed within ancient art, but it is locked up by our newly minted psychological landscape and confused language. Myths are a key. Un-Babel yourself.
Statement on Vedic Landscape Project
The 'Vedic' series has been an ongoing focus for quite a few years and I return to it regularly as it involves many of my personal and philosophical interests.
The work covers a variety of subjects related through the fields of geography and numbers that draws some related concepts into a symbolic environment where they interact and grow, always forming new material. This stuff never gets old.
"'What we call geography is actually a complex of conceptual relationships. Our relations and connections with things are a dialogue between the material 'apparent' worlds and the immaterial 'abstract' worlds. The conventions used to represent the material have become extremely attenuated but we hardly notice this. The language of this dialogue is constantly changing and being re-mapped.."
From Vedic Landscapes Project statement
Contemporary design art
A subset of my practice is connected with another branch of my work experience as a production artist. Although I often attempt to keep the conceptual work and the more decorative work separate, at times the visual design aspects of artwork in the contemporary design and decor frame can be a point from where where my more conceptual work draws strong organising principles. When these overlap in a meaningful way I tend to let them cross-pollinate each other.
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