LATEST WORK

This year I have begun an exploratory phase in my work.

I rented a studio in Eastbourne in order to fully commit to my practise as an ‘artist’. This process has been a journey of unravelling. I realise I had many years of conditioning as a designer and illustrator and being heavily influenced by creative people close to me. I hadn’t allowed myself to explore and experiment what it means to be truly creative. I felt on a level I wasn’t expressing myself authentically.

So I allowed myself complete freedom to be drawn to anything, pardon the pun.

Initially I spent two to three months, just walking every day in nature and drawing. Really because I didn’t know where to start, but just wanted to start.

So I drew landscapes every day. It was a cathartic practise because I found in the past I was very good at initiating ideas and artwork but not completing them. I had some form of block about the completion aspect. In making myself complete these artworks, I developed self discipline and confidence that I could finish a piece of art in a day or two. I also began to understand what I was focused on and enjoying. I fell into a meditative state when doing these drawings and they were in some ways, quite healing.

I got ill with Covid shortly after and spent almost two weeks resting and just reading, and looking at instagram. I met a friend during this time who had a great influence over me, he was an artist exploring consciousness through his work. Then a spark ignited in me, as I had always been on a journey of self discovery and to marry the two ideas seemed to make sense. I was already moving in this direction and to fully delve into the true nature of consciousness through my work was to be the next exploration.

I decided to replace my morning walk with meditation instead, something that I had not done in a while but had previously been very interested in. Through meditating I realised I was receiving great insights into my visual work and my own personal evolution. I began recording these ideas both visually and in written form and developed these into paintings. At this time I also began a Tiktok account and started to talk about my thoughts and work. Through connecting with like minded people, I realised that I had identified with many with neurodivergent tendencies and decided to seek a diagnosis. I had a preliminary diagnosis of inattentive adhd previously and now I was going down the medical route to have this confirmed. I mention this as I feel it’s instrumental to my work and process and is a factor in how and why I work. I will talk more on this as and when I can.

For now my art is exploring themes arising from the subconscious, or spiritual ‘chanelling’ through meditation. These may be through symbolism, shapes, geometry or mythology. I have found the work of spiritual artists Hilma af Klint and Georgia Houghton resonates closely to my own process and I hope to continue their legacy. I believe that such artwork has some common element of ‘truth’ imbued within it and comes from a common source of collective consciousness that can be tapped into. I often find my sketches seem ambiguous at first, but often I find a trail of synchronicity in later days or weeks that help me make sense of it’s meaning.

Some of the artworks below are a result of this later stage of my current development.