I am using the life room as an opportunity to observe and find visual means to express the beauty of the human body.

I have concentrated on the use of charcoal for its focus on tone and its simple richness, and pastel for tonal and color relationships. Both mediums offer a rich range of mark making and responsiveness in their use.

Most are sized at 60 x 42 cm on either white or cream paper.

“And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?”

The great American poet Walt Whitman, in his work “I sing the Body Electric”, merges dynamism, sensuality and physicality with the spiritual to form the potent 'Body Electric'.

I set about making studies of the body through this perspective, of the body as vibrating with life. I create a variety of responses, some more formal than others, continually developing a means of expression.

Watercolour & Gouache on paper 29 x 42 cm

“And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?”

The great American poet Walt Whitman, in his work “I sing the Body Electric”, merges dynamism, sensuality and physicality with the spiritual to form the potent 'Body Electric'.

I set about making studies of the body through this perspective, of the body as vibrating with life. I create a variety of responses, some more formal than others, continually developing a means of expression.

Whitman believed that a poet's style should be simple and natural. My desire is also to be without contrivance, and to hone skill and sensitivity through the body.

“And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?”

The great American poet Walt Whitman, in his work “I sing the Body Electric”, merges dynamism, sensuality and physicality with the spiritual to form the potent 'Body Electric'.

I set about making studies of the body through this perspective, of the body as vibrating with life. I create a variety of responses, some more formal than others, continually developing a means of expression.

Whitman believed that a poet's style should be simple and natural. My desire is also to be without contrivance, and to hone skill and sensitivity through the body.

Interior Landscapes

"wer nicht hören will, muss fühlen”

This German proverb is intended to serve as a warning:

'He who will not listen must feel”

I am struck by the idea that sometimes the warned against ‘feeling’ can be a better way to learn.

In the silent world of paint on panels, feelings must come in to play.

My paintings utilise richness of paint application and colour along with tonal relationships.

I observe my subjects both visually and for the unseen qualities they posses, the cool curving touch of ceramics, the fresh green fragrance of a wild flower to create 'Interior Landscapes'

"Cosimo would stand under the pavilion of leaves, watching the sun appear through the network of twigs and branches, the gradual swell of the green fruit, smelling the scent of flowers budding in the stalks."

From "The Baron in the Trees" by Italo Calvino

The experience of being amongst trees, watching the ebb and flow. This I aim to express.

“No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being Logical “

Niels Bohr

Said in response to those who made purely formal and mathematical arguments.

Niels Bohr, a wonderfully intuitive thinker Physicist and philosopher, whose desire to understand the roots of phenomena reaches out to scientist and artists alike.

Responding to a landscape of Jewels:

“ On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels “

Poetic writing from Charles Dickens.

Natural forms presented as precious jewels ………our true riches.

Landscape which reflects upon the beautiful and mysterious insights of 20th Century physics. The measured certitude of Renaissance thought makes way for the "uncertainty of the observable"

Delineations become softened, sky and land merge, animated by unseen forces.

Ink and Gouache  "Skies"

The Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio describes a person as a “dynamic continuum”, wherein “soul, mind, intellect, thought, emotion, senses and the body are all intimately connected”

My drawings of the body are informed by this rich perspective. Bodies are no longer simply physical vessels to be measured and plotted on paper, rather, they are an emotional physicality in dynamic relation to the world around them.

These drawings are created with inks and Gouache and are made to A1 size