THE CELTIC TAROT
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Deer Art (2011)
When I started my early work in 1977 I was in the very early days of my spirituality and having my first encounters with seeing through the veil to the 'otherworld', so the pictures were steeped in symbology, often somewhat dark and would took 'an age' to complete.
Over the past 30 years my art as gone through many metamorphoses as my understanding
and spiritual experience has deepened and work began to attract favourable comment
for it's vibrancy. I was becoming aware that i was tapping into an inspirational
force that was very positive, powerful and transformative.
Sitting at my drawing board
for often 14 hours a day and 7 days a week in deep concentration cannot but enforce
the power of the sacred space of the studio. This focus often brought up deep feelings
and fear that I needed to work through as I painted. It was not unusual for a personal
hell to break loose as I worked on some of my more powerful pieces. It's been 30
years of transformation during which I have learnt to free my ideas from the art
and let the painting expand and grow as it needed to. Often I would have no idea
of it's direction or what the picture had to say until the end. Painting was overlaid
on painting so only the ghost of the first layer could be sensed as if looking through
a veil to another world barely visible.
I could not and can not help but view the
world differently when most of my awake state was and is tapping into sacred inspiration.
The journey I have taken has prepared me for new challenges and I am now on the threshold
of offering the chance for people to experience something of the space I abide in
when I work. Continued on next page
