My paintings are an exploration and expression of the mystical and spiritual. This is an age old preoccupation of artists and one that has not lost its potency in the contempoary age. I hope that when people look upon my work they are drawn into a space of profound and moving contemplation, a space that leads them into a sense of a deeper reality beneath the everyday appearance of things. A reality which provides solace, refuge and a place of tranquil meditation away from the banal and ordinary.

For me the process of painting is itself a mystical process. I approach painting with a sense of letting go and allowing, watching the process unfold as though I am merely a channel for creative forces. The journey to resolution is for me like an inner, spiritual journey as my mind goes deeper into letting go, feeling my way intuitively through to that point when the painting becomes separate from me. Then I say the painting speaks for itself.

Through this process of letting go and allowing I am immersed in a spiritual reality of pure essence, innocence and infinite possibilities. Allowing creativity, the act of art making, to happen through me, I lose myself completely, letting go, in order to find my true, transpersonal, deep ecological self.



Doorway to the Angelic Realm 101 x 101cm SOLD Private Collection