My painting can best be described as having a loosely and largely unconsciously based imaginative relationship with aspects of landscape – in particular, rock surfaces and their hallucinatory capacity to evoke dream states and imaginative other worlds.
I am fascinated by how liminal states of attention and awareness – states on the border between consciousness and unconsciousness – can open up a whole new visual territory –
one that effectively re-instates the primacy of imagination.
In the process, I am attempting to form a bridge between consciousness and unconsciousness – meticulously structuring intuitive responses to random marks, lines and colours. Fundamental to this work is a commitment to the revealing power of imagination and a belief that, through imaginative processes, the individual transcends the illusion of appearances and accesses the trans-personal and archetypal.
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