Sea of Rock - Limited Edition 1 of 1 Print

The collected material, usually rocks, are ground down into powder to form printing inks and paint. Through the collaborative process of working with the material, the artist's thoughts and the pressure applied by the artist's hands and fingers, transfer memories on the surface, recorded as a mark by the material, itself playing its part in doing what it wants to do in unison with the artist. Through this collaborative shamanic approach, Adam explores the transference of memory and energy into a new aesthetic as a monotype print-painting, exploring the connections with have between the internal and external Nature and our reliance and responsibility to the environment. The ideas explored through this SAW Creative Pathway residency include: * Defining the nature of Romanticism and how it may be approached from the starting point of the primary importance of the 'free expression of the feelings of the artist'. * The importance the Romantics placed on emotion and summed up through the German Romanticist Caspar David Friedrich that 'the artist's feeling is the law'. *William Wordsworth's ideal that poetry should begin as 'the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings', which the poet then 'recollect[s] in tranquillity...' * Expressing feelings through which the content of the art had to come from the imagination of the artist, with as little interference as possible from 'artificial' rules that dictated what the work should consist. * Samuel Taylor Coleridge and others believed there were natural laws that the imagination ... would unconsicously follow through artistic inspiration if left alone. * The influence of models from other works was considered to impede the creator's own imagination, so that originality was essential and the artist was able to produce their own original work through the process of 'creating from nothingness' - key to Romanticist ideas and know as 'romantic originality'.