Art as a spiritual journey

My artistic process is a spiritual voyage – in a state of meditation and openness, I let the canvas guide me. It usually starts with colours or textures, calling to me from my paint box and then dancing and forming into areas and flows and contrasts on the canvas. Then they start to form lines, bones of structure, that tie it together. And when the intuitive phase feels complete, I take a step back, try to feel and digest what is trying to come out, and then start to add detail and intent, bringing out the sense of the message with more clarity and vision.

In this way, I think of my art as a channel – a bridge between conscious thought and spiritual understanding. I aim to reach beyond the limitations of intellect and create a deeper kind of connection — wiping away the masks and layers of conditioning, mechanisms and defenses that divide us.

In fact the theme of much of my work right now is just that – the masks and layers of defense, personal and cultural calcification, that make it difficult, even impossible for people to really connect and really live their true selves. I also paint about creativity and creation itself, and how true creative freedom is the solution to that isolation, the tool to break the chains, dissolve the masks and tear down the barriers.