COMING SOON:

Slow Time…12,024

This new work will explore the slow passage of time:

Identity has become the foundation of culture, yielding to the loudest solitary voice and appearances are currency…

Having been content, for over 20 years, with producing a quality product linked to the ebb & flow of the British cultural and tribal narrative, I find myself at an impasse. Suffering from post-pandemic ‘burn-out’ lead me to question meaning & purpose in search of a new, more stoic, foundation to the work…

There is extraordinary clarity and respite in the silent simplicity of the past.

By tracing back the history of the British Isles before the expansion of ‘civilisation’ (4-6000 years ago) when Britain was a newly formed island, a primordial soup of possibility & potential for a sparse population of Neolithic hunter/gatherer Britons (an amalgamation of (Welsh) indigenous,  European immigrant & invaders) who too, strove to understand the world around them.

This society forged meaning from the movement of the sun, moon and worship of the ever changing seasons, as they adopted agriculture, architecture and advanced craft, later refined into a pre-Christian ‘pagan’ belief systems now drenched in myth, folklore, ritual, symbolism and ceremonial practices that gave thanks to the earth that provides.

This new work (framed or ‘on the body’) endeavours to capture these elements by exploring concentric stone circles, barrows, lay-line’s and the sacred geometry within symbols, effigies and totems!

Exploring repetitious stitch and the curvilinear nature of organic lines, echoing the stoic power of ritualistic sacrifice, biophilia, giving thanks,

Finding an antidote for the less meaningful vanities of the day…