Paintings

I’d describe my paintings as a combination of Pop Art, collage, surrealism, and Fantasy Art; with elements taken from traditional thangka painting. I’m a storyteller, and the study of world mythology, Shamanism, Druidry, Eastern philosophy; and the folk tales of the British Isles, all manifest in my paintings. The relationship between colour and form lays the foundation of the painted narrative. They owe to the philosophy that all phenomena are mere appearances to mind, that colour and form are merely imprinted in this life, and ultimately do not exist outside the mind that perceives them. Add to this, images from Shamanic trance, world mythology, the Druid tree of life and its cyclic year, the paintings then become a metaphor for a world in transition, a dialogue to the journeys within this life, this universe, and beyond.

The works of Alan Davie, Yayoi Kusama, Niki de Saint Phalle, Hieronymous Bosch, and Richard Dadd have had the greatest impact on my own pursuit of artistic expression.

Gallery

Enchantment, series 2019 – present; selected works

Come on a journey through Shamanic trance, world mythology, Druid philosophy, esoteric wisdom, and tales of elves, faeries and mermaids.

“Brothers and sisters, bear your pain in silence”, gouache and ink on paper

“Adam and Eve“; gouache and ink on paper (dyptich)

Many world cultures have a creation myth where humans are created from soil/ clay. The Adam and Eve story has a much older mythology.

“Elf-struck”, gouache and ink on paper

If taken ill, you may be elf-struck, your body pierced by a poisoned elven arrow. In Cumbrian folklore, the elves got the arrows from faeries, who got them from mermaids.