Essay

As an artist, I am trying to create objects and images that point both ways - that hold our mundane humanness while recognizing the inherent mystery of it all. Images and objects where the ordinary becomes significant, and the ‘transcendent’ manifests as the concrete and immediate.

My practice as a meditator and practicing Buddhist feed into my art, as does my interest in the work of Carl Jung, James Hillman, James Hollis, and others.

In both my figurative and abstract work I am often exploring the experience of what Henry Corbin called ‘the imaginal’ - a mode of perception where events and moments are imbued with significance and aliveness beyond the ordinary, and which reconnects us with the fullness of embodied consciousness, in its depths and heights, light and shadow, memory and dreams.

The everyday forms, colors, and textures that many of us take for granted, and which make up our ‘mundane’ world, are the point of entry into a new engagement with life.

The everyday forms, colors, and textures that many of us take for granted, and which make up our ‘mundane’ world, are the point of entry into a new engagement with life.

I’m a British painter and maker of images living just outside Valencia, Spain. In 1985 I was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order and later founded the Valencia Buddhist Centre.

For 30 years I worked and traveled extensively in the Hispanic world, teaching and supporting others on the Buddhist path. Dedicated now full-time to painting and image-making, my work is held in private collections in Spain, Mexico, the UK, Cyprus, and Holland.
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