Book J
Synchronised Swimming
This group illustrates my overall approach to making all works. The images have been selected from those, that aren’t also specific to any other of the 14 categories.
Holding the belief that our logical mind, although able to produce beautiful concepts, does not necessarily provide for our greatest creative potential.
Instead, by practicing emptying the mind, the confidence to trust towards working with a process of genuine feedback between the work and the self, develops.
Thus we invent without inventing.
The impulse to create a painting arises through suggestion from the previous piece of work combined with an emotional response to the place in which the work is being produced.
The same motivation influences the choice of painting surface and materials being employed.
After the initial mark is applied to the surface, the painting evolves by their being only one persistent instinctual possibility for the next move.
Instead, by practicing emptying the mind, the confidence to trust towards working with a process of genuine feedback between the work and the self, develops.
Thus we invent without inventing.
The impulse to create a painting arises through suggestion from the previous piece of work combined with an emotional response to the place in which the work is being produced.
The same motivation influences the choice of painting surface and materials being employed.
After the initial mark is applied to the surface, the painting evolves by their being only one persistent instinctual possibility for the next move.
