Celtic Designs

The origins and beginnings of this folio grew from my fascination with the Celtic Tradition and Sacred Geometry.  I spent many a happy hour in the Archaeology Dept. drawing room as an Undergraduate, exploring the treasure-trove of ancient artifacts, and making detailed images.  This often extended to museum visits, and later, while working as an Archaeologist, to finds drawing and context mapping on excavation sites, both with AOC and Headland Archaeology Units for Historic Scotland.

Inspired by elements ranging between the Books of Kells and Lindisfarne to Jim Fitzpatrick’s Book of Conquests; drawing from the gothic architecture of europe and the art deco; guided by the ideas of projective ornamentation proposed by the Golden Dawn, these paintings are all hand-drawn and coloured.  They are all in private collections.

I find that the deeper I go into this exploration through my artwork, the more i understand that there is some further dimension to discover.

And standing here, at the edge of the world; awestruck at the sheer hugeness and incomprehensible nature of that which we do not know, I feel really blessed to have started to unravel my calling in this Mortal Coil.

In essence, my work is about capturing a glimpse of what Lichtenstein called the “unspeakable’, and bringing it back in a form of art.  To me, it holds a liminality which draws me further into it, as if by design…