Jack Steel

Over the last year, my art has undergone a total transformation , from figurative drawing to abstract , painted collage and relief.
I have been influenced by Japanese printing and sumi-e calligraphy cubist collage , Kurt Schwitters , Hans Arp and Bauhaus artists like Kandinsky and Paul Klee . I take fragments of found and printed paper , Japanese prints , gold leaf, typography and drawing, and set those elements against textured and painted grounds of vibrant colour . I have also recently become fascinated by rock art - pictograms and petroglyphs from across the world , employing the same ancient symbols - spirals , suns , moons stars , animals , birds , the eye - these signs speak to the ancient , archetypal part of our minds...

1976 : MA in English and Economic History , Glasgow University.
1991 : Ba (Hons) Fine Art and Critical Studies, St Martins/ Central School of Art , London