RECENT JOURNEYS: from Vietnam to the digital surface
This exhibition explores the nature of ‘surface’ as part of understanding the visual world. Whilst traveling I am conscious of the difficulties in penetrating the surface of an unfamiliar culture and equally, how rewarding it is to reveal and capture a glimpse of something new, even if not fully understood.
As an artist, the journey with the self is no less hard to understand. To penetrate who one really is, to go beyond the surface of one’s being has as it’s might call ‘truth’. consequence a glimpse of what one
As an artist and a traveler, I am confronted with moments or fragments of a ‘landscape’ that is both mental and metaphorical. The space I find myself after a journey when one confronts the accepted familiar, is for a moment an experience of innocence, as if seeing one’s home for the first time, one is a foreigner in one’s own garden.
The journeys I take as traveler and as artist weave what is an essentially symbiotic relationship. This exhibition explores both digital photography, digital imaging and mixed media on canvas.
This exhibition explores the nature of ‘surface’ as part of understanding the visual world. Whilst traveling I am conscious of the difficulties in penetrating the surface of an unfamiliar culture and equally, how rewarding it is to reveal and capture a glimpse of something new, even if not fully understood.
As an artist, the journey with the self is no less hard to understand. To penetrate who one really is, to go beyond the surface of one’s being has as it’s might call ‘truth’. consequence a glimpse of what one
As an artist and a traveler, I am confronted with moments or fragments of a ‘landscape’ that is both mental and metaphorical. The space I find myself after a journey when one confronts the accepted familiar, is for a moment an experience of innocence, as if seeing one’s home for the first time, one is a foreigner in one’s own garden.
The journeys I take as traveler and as artist weave what is an essentially symbiotic relationship. This exhibition explores both digital photography, digital imaging and mixed media on canvas.