‘Memories of a Far Away Place” January 2015. This image represents a synthesis between past memories of a fondly recollected place and time AND that living presence within my inner creative world. When these become one and are expressed, this is what I understand as the development of artistic and visionary capacities.
Lifting The Lid
‘Lifting The Lid’. December 2014. Saying goodbye to a wonderful year, this image captures a sense of the past year which has been a kind of rebirth born out of organising and drawing on the rich experience and experimentation of the past 4 decades.
Fragokastello Towards Kapsodasos
Fragokastello Towards Kapsodasos, Crete, September 2014. Ink drawing with colour added.
Lloyd Park – Late summer sun
Lloyd Park – Late summer sun, September 2014. Ink drawings with colour added.
View from Fragokastello, Crete
View from Fragokastello Crete, August 2014. Ink drawing made on location in Fragokastello with digital colour added.
The Creatures that Live on Mountain Tops
‘The Creatures that Live on Mountain Tops’ – July 2014. This image is best explained by a word cloud: ..vivid childhood memories of summer sun streaming through stained glass window.. the miracle of light and the gift of sight.. integral unity v synthetic unity.. (Malhotra).. non duality not division.. individual in harmony with others.. mountain & sky.. earth and heaven.. material and the unseen.. The emergence of mystery
Elysium
‘Elysium’ June 2014. After many months of work, going through a process of visually grappling with many tensions and opposing forces I arrived at the conclusion that I feel very lucky to be alive.
El Greco’s Dream
‘El Greco’s Dream’ May 2014. What can I say, El Greco was a giant in the history of art – a sublime artist. 300 years before cubism he was bending 3-dimensional space to convey his sense of the transcendent.
Heraclitus
‘Heraclitus’ May 2014. Heraclitus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is famous for his insistence on ever-present change in the universe. This image was inspired by reading his words;
“Thus there are no solid bodies. Things are not really things, they are processes, they are in flux. They are like fire, like a flame which, though it may have a definite shape, is a process, a stream of matter, a river. All things are flames: fire is the very building material of our world….”
Hibernia
‘Hibernia’, April 2014. This image again came out of nowhere. I am always in awe of the processes of creativity. I have no idea how this takes place but somehow a multitudinous synthesis of thought, feeling and impulse takes place; too many experiences to manage are brought into harmony and everything is made good as a result.
Patrick Bryson 