As a schoolboy I loved both art and science, and in particular the realm where the two intersect. I was fascinated by the Ancient Greek philosophers – who attempted to articulate their ideas of how nature functions, the inter-disciplinary thinking of the Italian Renaissance, and creative discoveries in modern physics, ideas such as relativity, quantum mechanics, and string theory. The theoretical end of physics seemed to me a highly creative endeavor. In short, I enjoyed reading about new scientific discoveries, and creative speculations about the unknowable mysteries of nature.
Initially accepted to the University of Edinburgh to study Theoretical Physics, I ultimately switched track to Architecture – in an effort to weave these interests together. Since then I’ve had the good fortune to travel the world to create perspective drawings on city streets for festivals. Over the subsequent years working in the film industry, I’ve also had the freedom to explore ideas through my studio practice. I’ve found myself returning to similar interests in the realm of art – ‘On the Nature of Things’ by the Roman poet Lucretius, the diagrams in da Vinci’s Leicester codex, and the work of Joseph Beuys – in particular a body of work entitled, ‘the secret block for a secret person in Ireland’.
Many years later my studio work has gradually come to integrate some of these ideas in a series of whimsical studies related to some contemporary ideas in physics.
Distillations and Deconstructions : Distillations. – reductionist interpretations of traditional modes of painting – (landscape, figure, portrait) | Deconstructions – dismantling elements in painting to explore each in isolation.
Distilled Landscapes – abstract interpretations of the traditional landscape in japanese sumi ink – more a reflection of the way nature behaves than a pictorial depiction of it.
Particulate Fields – color fields built up from the repetition of almost identical strokes – reflecting the pixelated nature of matter and energy – a quantum world consisting of discrete parcels of light.
String Fields – abstracting form and motion – reflecting the interactions of vibrating strings on a quantum level.
Terrains – color fields reflecting a dialogue between crystalline geometries and organic behaviors in nature.
Studio visits are by appointment.