Symbolically, these paintings represent the world of the striving human being and embody an enhanced soul state. As we contemplate these works, the soul can become like a colourful garden that we tend to and re-enliven. They seek to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind into an imaginative awakening. They embody the tenets of truth, beauty and goodness – ideals that encapsulate high human endeavour.
Symbolically, these paintings represent the world of the striving human being and embody an enhanced soul state. As we contemplate these works, the soul can become like a colourful garden that we tend to and re-enliven. They seek to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind into an imaginative awakening. They embody the tenets of truth, beauty and goodness – ideals that encapsulate high human endeavour.
Symbolically, these paintings represent the world of the striving human being and embody an enhanced soul state. As we contemplate these works, the soul can become like a colourful garden that we tend to and re-enliven. They seek to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind into an imaginative awakening. They embody the tenets of truth, beauty and goodness – ideals that encapsulate high human endeavour.
THE SACRED GROVE
This series of ‘tree of life’ paintings/mandalas have been created to stimulate personal investigation and self-inquiry as well as to be beautiful and out of the ordinary. For thousands of years the tree has symbolised powerful universal motifs such as life, death, fertility and metamorphosis, and even the ensouled human being itself. This ancient and timeless understanding of ‘the tree’ underlies the contextual foundation for these creative works.
I see my paintings as visual metaphors and empowering talisman that can be experienced as meditations, each exploring one of 8 themes of Courage, Letting Go, Protection, Boundaries, Transformation, Karma, Transfiguration and Awakening.
The leitmotifs of these works are inextricably linked to what it means to be a human being living in today’s complex and challenging world where many feel disempowered, disconnected, anxious and fearful for the future. I believe that each of these paintings offers a door, a pathway, to wholeness and physical and spiritual agency in helping
ameliorate the dehumanising pressures that assail these troubled times.
Acrylic on canvas. Varying sizes.
