Waves of Transformation (10 of 12) Painting

Kevin J J Warren is an abstract artist currently based in London. In 2023 he completed a professional doctorate in fine art, in which time he explored art as an ecological practice, whereby human experience is a part of a larger process of transformation. it is with these thoughts that he has related to ideas found within ecopsychology, which at its core is a non-dual concept. What we do matters for ourselves and for the world we live in. This allows an inclusion in his work of a sensual engagement with the elements that inspire, with the process of creation, and with a draw on his response to complexities of the contemporary world. It is this factor which weaves an eco-anxiety into the work and a belief that art can meaningfully engage with these matters. Throughout his career he has been inspired by patterns in trees, water, and clouds, and how these patterns, when taken out of context can reveal interrelations that are a part of the working of the earth, which he relates to a living system, or Gaia. This informs a free-form methodology which arrives at compositions without the distinctions of meaning, fixed form, scale or even time. To find coherence in this methodology has taken a rigorous questioning of both himself and the world he encounters. It took many years, but in the period prior to the doctorate he roughed out the possibilities that would go on to characterise his abstractions. Integral to this was meditation, to how states of receptivity could be cultivated to the creative process, and then how the labour of creation itself could be an expansion of this meditation. He sees his work as a continuum and his goal throughout has been to let this be nurtured, for an inherent poetry to emerge. .j.j.warren