April 1st was Easter 2018.

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Geo structures   56x75cm (22x29")

I continue to work on the bedroom floor, tearing paper, gluing, throwing some paper and inks in the freezer and piecing some works together as I currently dwell in the centre of a city with 450,000 population, and reflect upon my intrigue with the wild and untamed landscapes.

Questioning details; what is it about this earth, its horizons, mountains and vistas?  Am I, are we all in danger of severing our connection to naturalness? 

Compelled to walk a terrain in order to understand and somatically experience the way these vistas were formed, I wonder how I "fit" and relate to place. This I've done since a child, thinking I was looking for friends each time we moved locations. What are the sensations I feel from crossing and dwelling on land structures? Using a more scrutinizing look, I borrow the gaze of a geologist.

More drawings to date; packing paper and brown parcel paper, inks, white acrylic, paper from shopping bags, graphite, silver Gaffa Tape.

March 29th

art on the bedroom floor (best light!) Since the drawing class with Stuart Geddes at the RWA Bristol it's been a self review on mark making. Fun!

2018 in the UK

It's March, it's chilly, as most of the trees in the landscape are deciduous, it's visually Wintery.

That is the beauty of the promise of the transformation to come. Spring! Not only is the landscape a mass of brilliant greens, the birds burst out with a dawn chorus and life teems with palpable energy, vibrating the new season into the life stream.

Bristol in West England a university city and a creative hub, is where I'm starting this "adventure" of living back "home" for a year. Raising a family in California has rendered me of "trans-Atlantic" species. Now it is a journey of exploring my deep-rooted sense of belonging, discovering those influences in my art work while reconciling my dual citizenship.

Pollard tree                         1st drawing session        Bristol Graffiti

Back to LA.

Hauser & Wirth opens for Mark Bradford

Studio works unfolding

One month of a residence in Iceland was entirely compatible, calm relatively uneventful. Primordial rhythms merged me with a landscape. No driving, no chores beyond cooking and clean up, just observation of weather, horizons, sky, volcanoes with minimal touring. I want to return and explore more the land; another kind of visit (resort to be a tourist!).

With an overwhelming collection of inner inspirational charge, the challenge is about how to proceed, post the experience of immersion at a residence.

It appears not to be about replicating my contact with place and time but rather a directional guide and affirmation about what motivates me visually and emotionally without influences of cultural trends.  I'm interested in the gaze over landscapes of grandeur; mixing the angles of the gaze; experimenting with materials that evoke mood and/or cross sections of agates and minerals that make up the geology. I am fascinated while being alarmed by ice melt and what is revealed by it's absence. I aim to convey a stillness that is deeply alive, almighty and mysteriously active.

That is always the challenge and occasionally i touch on it.