My work is generally based on meditations and dreams, and is my personal method of exploration into the nature of other realms through sensing and portraying the visual forms and energies in various places and states of being.
Furthest Tree (Right)
Walking through the wood I came to the avenue of trees. At the furthest point stood this grand tree, gnarled and Tolkien-like! In the branches above a red squirrel chattered as it looked at me
My themes are based on nature in its various aspects, such as cloudscapes, inspiring mountains, aspects of water, as well as sacred sites, stone circles and the planets of our solar system. I have also done many sacred sites and wells, homeopathic remedy images, and crystals.
Aphrodite's Realm (left)
This is the inspired image I did of the planet Venus. It was the fourth image I completed of the whole solar system series of 13.
There are hints of ancient cultures here, as well as the energy of the sun there.My interest and concern is that the paintings are of a healing and inspiring nature, for I have always been just as interested in healing as I have in art. I would like to think that I am focusing harmony and healing through the paintings as an offering of service and pleasure to others.
When I go to a sacred site I can see and feel the energy present like a shining presence coming through me, and I can also pick up this quality from a site through a photograph too.
Anvils from the West (right)
Standing on the top of High Yarridge one evening I was viewing the clouds and making sketches as usual. Once I returned home and listening to Vaughan William's Sea Symphony, I began this painting, and the whole series that followed.
Visionary painting for me is part of a soul searching, universal searching into realms of discovery within the portals of God's creation, echoing the energies seen in meditation or visions. For on the physical level energies do not seem a reality for all is slow and little vibrancy is apparent. However, on other levels everything sparkles and vibrates like bright sunlight on water, or transforming fluid patterns, for all is in motion, singing and dancing, and that the universe dances like the Song Celestial.
The Plough with Smoke & Cloud Wisps (above)
One night I ventured out to sketch the night sky. Above the houses of Hawkshead the plough constellation gleamed below some wisps of cloud. A thin sinuous trail of smoke from a chimney wove itself into the image.
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