Statement
Literacy,
Memory Retention
and Non Secular
Abstract Iconography.
My work leans on the lovely themes of; Exploring and Expanding the Meaning and Feeling of Calligraphy, Lost Memory Retention, Object Empathy and Not Knowing.
Play helps me shape the organic outcome and meaning of each artwork and sways the way I respond to the materials I choose to use. These can include reactive things in my immediate environment, along with my own existing artwork which I happily re-purpose to create others.
Background
University for the Creative Arts (ND Graphic Design) - 1990-93
East Surrey School of Art (HND Calligraphy/Heraldry) - 1993-95
Freelance Calligrapher/Illustrator - 1995-2010
Exhibitions
Southwark Park Galleries (Open Group Exhibition) - 2019
Fronteer Gallery ("Dirty Secrets" (Open Group Exhibition) - 2022
Poems
Staring holes into
bare walls.
Nothing.
A dull thud.
Sway.
Empty echo's
Scantily clad.
A dull thud.
Sway.
Stare stains.
Dumb drums.
A dull thud.
Ricochet.
Are Some-things Electric?
Shivering
again
feigning
something
on
prickly concrete.
Praxiteles thighs.
Mint and Talc.
See
four marks on wall,
four past scars,
four last things.
See
hands
and feet
dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing.
See
rectangles as
doors or faces.
Mirror then bed then pillow then ceiling.
Rectangles
Fingers interlaced,
stiff arms locked,
spinning and spinning and spinning and spinning.
Shivering.
There's something there.
Words must fail.
See.
It's cold outside.
Escape Hatch
Therapy doesn't work.
With a memory like a sieve.
When it comes to the end
who wants to be mended.
Who wants to know
which hand holds the coin,
or which cup hinds the ball.
Who needs the need
to demystify mystery's,
or untangle tangles.
You can hide from the truth.
Let it lie.
Memories escape me
and so will I.