a contemporary British Artist ......... POETRY PAINTING PHILOSOPHY
Deep within each living organism there is an immutable force, a creative power. An urge to live and to make. To express this is to connect with the cosmos and every living thing.
I have been a practicing visual artist since graduating in Fine Art in 1986.
Having worked solidly since that time in several studios, I came to realize that where the work was done was a moveable feast on a microcosmic level and everywhere, cosmically speaking.
It was working and living on Dartmoor that my thesis and my mission came into focus with a surge of integrated thoughts and feelings.
The work is a reflection of divine or cosmic creation; I feel I am now one in a direct line of metaphysical poets and artists. I am however grounded in the reality of existence and both read and represent signs in nature and in culture so a semioligist.
For so many years an outsider, I now have a place and it is grounded in the reality that at source everything is connected and that there is a way for each one of us to connect with that authentic self that is as immutable as the vast plains and tors of Dartmoor, the smallest flower and the stars beyond.
The culture in which we are immersed via the media ,the hype, the marketing , the consumerism and the celebrity circus can disorient us away from where our authentic and knowing divinity lies That is why so many people who seem to be enjoying the fruits of our contemporary culture express sorrow and emptiness. Perhaps values will change for the majority now that much of recent financial and material feelings of prosperity are perceived more clearly as illusion.
My teaching ,although I do very little these days, is aimed at empowering those who want to connect with their own divine creative self for whatever reason. Just because they want to is good enough for me.
That desire is a call from deep within to go to another place ,to open a door to the soul, and to rest there for a while in that blessed state.
I teach/coach. Write memoir and poetry, make movies and sing.
I have been a practicing visual artist since graduating in Fine Art in 1986.
Having worked solidly since that time in several studios, I came to realize that where the work was done was a moveable feast on a microcosmic level and everywhere, cosmically speaking.
It was working and living on Dartmoor that my thesis and my mission came into focus with a surge of integrated thoughts and feelings.
The work is a reflection of divine or cosmic creation; I feel I am now one in a direct line of metaphysical poets and artists. I am however grounded in the reality of existence and both read and represent signs in nature and in culture so a semioligist.
For so many years an outsider, I now have a place and it is grounded in the reality that at source everything is connected and that there is a way for each one of us to connect with that authentic self that is as immutable as the vast plains and tors of Dartmoor, the smallest flower and the stars beyond.
The culture in which we are immersed via the media ,the hype, the marketing , the consumerism and the celebrity circus can disorient us away from where our authentic and knowing divinity lies That is why so many people who seem to be enjoying the fruits of our contemporary culture express sorrow and emptiness. Perhaps values will change for the majority now that much of recent financial and material feelings of prosperity are perceived more clearly as illusion.
My teaching ,although I do very little these days, is aimed at empowering those who want to connect with their own divine creative self for whatever reason. Just because they want to is good enough for me.
That desire is a call from deep within to go to another place ,to open a door to the soul, and to rest there for a while in that blessed state.
I teach/coach. Write memoir and poetry, make movies and sing.