From Reality to Abstraction Painting

Working from Harrow Road Studios in London: city of great art and creativity, inspires me and my work.a kalichakra painter chasing the mistake and making 'darkness visible'.In my paintings I am interested in that area where realism crosses over into abstraction but more importantly one that captures a cosmological wholeness of the universe, where the deep space matrix meets the physical reality of being. The artist is an intermediary and my visual language is to recognize the properties of each phase and to use both in my compositions. To have them exists together but separate. To have spontaneity, chance and play next to considered time-based events where you get chaos and movement juxtaposed alongside more sober considered mark making and the task of chasing the mistake and looking for the new.The scientist and artist are looking for the same things. The appeal in the work for the scientist is in his apprehension of a certain oneness and totality, or wholeness, constituting a kind of harmony that is felt to be beautiful. Like when you stand in front of a great painting: A Peter Doig; A Jackson Pollock or a John Hoyland; all Kalichakra painters. The artist understands the process of painting by being an integral part of it and is free to manifest the Truth. A kalichakra painting is out of the realm of time and it is to experience the untimebound process of creation. The Kalichakra process of painting is closely related to spontaneity, observation, insight and is made from the moment. These are only some of the elements that are part of the painting process but are given prominence in building the composition. The subject matter (usually time based and which are manipulated and modified from their original) for each painting can be varied but is only the access point to the work that helps build the structure of the composition. So when deep space meets subject matter on Earth: you get a harmonised chaotic painting yet quirky enough to maintain a meditative balanced composition. I would like to look more closely at the Kalichakra gesture, a Kalichakra insight manifesting the process of creation, untimebound, pure and part of the Quantum self. Like the artist who creates his space, lives in it, and makes art from it. One's studio will bring on the meditative, silent, intuitive-streaming-mind, leaving behind the noisy self-talk mind, and one follows instructions, and intention in mind maintains a dialogue.