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pigment as well as simplified compositions to create works that evoke a move beyond illustrating a particular scene or moment. I feel that labels
feeling of the sublime. I have experimented with a multi-disciplinary approach create or impose systems of beliefs in life and art. They shape and direct
combining various media and methods to achieve a final ‘image’ which is, in the interpretation of the spectator and consequently limit their personal
some way, a distillation of an ‘artistic’ experience. These approaches include interaction with the art. Consequently I have chosen not to apply labels to
visual stimuli, automatic mark making, and conscious intervention in order individual works. In this way the work itself becomes the subject, not an
to achieve an image which is highly personal and yet, can be interpreted imitation of nature.
and understood in a individual, unique way by each viewer who experiences The mixed media works I have created are ambiguous compositions
their own ‘reality’ when confronted with the completed art work. The reminiscent of general landscapes, in which I have endeavoured to capture
relationships of the forms, lines and colours in my mixed media works are the essence of a sensation or experience. I am drawn to the medium of
part of a dramatic and emotional meaning in which the formal relationships abstract art as a means of communication as I feel that it is a medium that is
bear the meaning of the work. universal, immediate and unmediated by language. Life consists of an endless
The Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian said “one passes through the world of forms, series of experiences and it is only by continually growing spiritually through
descending from reality to abstraction. In this manner one approaches allowing ourselves to be exposed to new information, thoughts, emotions
Spirit, or purity itself.” Like Mondrian, I attempt to capture pure essence or and experiences that we can begin to be fully aware of where we have been
spirit in my abstract works. This has resulted in simplified compositions that and where we are, here and now.
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