My practice is essentially about the non-material. a voice that sometimes only the visual can speak, intuitions that the symbols of words often cannot convey. An attempt to capture the mystery of experience. I believe that there is a reality apart from the material world which we gain access to through contemplation.

'The decisive question for man is this: is he related to something infinate or not?' Jung

Jung goes on to assert that the experience of the Sacred and Holy is a fundamental requirement of the self. To deny it brings spiritual decay; to embrace it illuminates the soul with meaning.

My paintings strive to capture the meaningful dialogue between my internal and external realities, which are metaphorically portrayed using imagery that I have intuitively taken from my own experience or passing landscape. I find that it is through the visceral nature of paint and charcoal that ideas about the internal struggle of the spirit are made manifest.

'For the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without' Jung

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  Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

  The Royal Academy of Arts

  Burlington House ,

  Piccadilly

  London W1J OBD

  9th June - 17th August 2008

  Room 1V " Sideways Look'  No 633

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  Art for Youth London 2008

  The Mall Galleries. London SW1

  Private views:

  Wed 8th & Thurs 9th October