As Above so Below

As Above, so Below... 

Here I had a few moments to try out some new coloured graphite pencils between working on a series of large-scale commissioned paintings. A long-term project, these works explore various ideas about the connections and parallels between nature, landscape and human consciousness.

Our natural environment becomes an analogy or reflection of the inner nature of humanity... Conscious, creative being - evolving, growing, striving, blooming, transforming, withering, fading, decaying, transitioning, ascending... The endless cycle of life... death... rebirth....

Through our five senses, we are limited in perceiving much of our surrounding physical environment and it's contents as solid, static and separate. Yet we simultaneously have an awareness and understanding that all things are connected and composed of continually fluctating, vibrating, moving, energy, matter and space....