"Dreadnought Attack (Part 3)" Print

I was born and raised in London, England, but have spent the last decade living in Asia - and China in particular - after following a childhood fascination with the arts and culture of the region. I have drawn and painted since an early age and have always held a deep, instinctive resonance with color and form, with one of my earliest memories being an impression that the bold colours and shapes of childhood stickers at the end of my cot had their own dimensions and characters that could be literally entered in to and experienced as other worlds. I've been told that this memory when I was under three years of age (one of several) can't be so, as after three years of age the brain restructures itself and layers over all previous memories, essentially wiping them. As a dyslexic however, my brain is apparently mapped differently, which suits me just fine. My thought process has always worked in patterns, angles and colours, viewing them as a more direct form of communication when compared to the written word or spoken language. During my teenage period and early twenties, I drew heavily from the Chinese influences of line and form along with the bold design of Japanese wood block prints. Over a period of many years my work has evolved with sketch, to water color, gouache, ink, and then oil, until I became truly satisfied with acrylics and abstract geometrics, as I feel their combination can formidably address that which I wish to elucidate. Subsequently, in my evolution as an artist, I've also found that I've had to toss-out copious amounts of learned form to reach a point which is minimalistic, yet not minimalism, and which seeks to tackle the esoteric and metaphysical via aesthetics. My art attempts interaction and subjective connection with the viewing individual, and often references some possible higher force beyond western minimalism's ideal of anonymous-machined-patterns, devoid of any allegory or internal communication. My series 'The Fifth Dimension' seeks to unveil the fifth dimension beyond our everyday consciousness. The fifth dimension is one of the dimensions that quantum physics' M-theory has posited exists all around us, and it is my conjecture that the fifth dimension is formed from a combination of the previous four that we are aware of: Line (1D), flat shape (2D), three dimensional object (3D), and time (4D), to create a dimension where forms transmogrify, dependent on the viewers consciousness and attention (5D).