hello there.....I hope you enjoy looking through my pictures......and here's a bit of background.....
Apart from an interlude when I was helping to bring up my sons, drawing has always been at the centre of my life. As a child I was fascinated by the world around me, particularly the flowers and insects I found in the garden. All my early drawings are of flowers and insects - especially butterflies. I also had a very keen eye for detail, pattern, colour and symmetry.....As I grew older I developed a deep interest in myth, legend, religion and creation myths from around the world. These ideas found their way at one time or another into my artwork......I experimented with watercolours, inks, and crayons, until all these elements came together to produce my current style ( such as it is) and the subject matter of many of my drawings. I am self-taught....and of course still learning...!
In 2001 I began the study and practice of Buddhism and Buddhist meditation, which had a very strong effect on me......and resulted in the series of drawings I call ' Dharma Art'. These drawings were never contrived, thought up or designed.....they were produced when I was in a highly concentrated, absorbed, yet relaxed and open state of mind - a meditative state - and the images simply flowed onto the paper.....it was really like retrieving something that already existed in my mind and uploading the image onto paper.....when I sat down and took up my pencil, I usually had no idea what I would be drawing....
At the present time I am back to experimenting with pen and ink.....and there is more of a deliberate effort to produce a pleasing image.....I am taking a great deal of inspiration from trees, ferns, ancient woodland, stone, and pagan and celtic myth and art....and excited to see where this will lead me and my drawings.....