As a schoolboy I loved both art and science, and in particular the realm where the two intersect. I enjoyed reading about Ancient Greek philosophers such as Anaximander, Philolaus, Archimedes, and Aristarchus, who attempted to articulate their ideas of how nature works, the inter-disciplinary thinking of the pioneers of scientific revolution in the Renaissance such as Galileo, Copernicus, and Da Vinci, and more recent theories in modern physics such as Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, String Theory. The theoretical end of physics seemed to me a highly creative endeavor. Above all I enjoyed creative speculations that changed the ‘diagram’ – or radically shifted the way we understand the universe.
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 for Architecture practices – but also as public art on city streets for festivals and events. Over the subsequent years working in the film industry, I’ve had some freedom to explore ideas through my studio practice. I’ve found myself returning to similar interests in the realm of art – the diagrams in Da Vinci’s Leicester Codex, and a series of drawings by Joseph Beuys – entitled, ‘The Secret Block for a Secret Person in Ireland’.
Many years later my own studio work has gradually come to address some of these ideas in a series of whimsical studies related to some contemporary ideas in physics, along with a codex with text entitled – ‘On the Nature of Nature‘.
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.