'The Dog Walk Project' - Triptych 2 (b)

My degree was in Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon School of Art in London. More recently I completed an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at Plymouth University.

I have a 'dual heritage' background and I draw from both European and Asian cultural and visual language in my work.

My practice encompasses digital image, installation, drawing and performance.

I work as a freelance visual artist, and have been the lead artist for many projects in school and community environments.

All the work submitted here was made as part of ‘The Dog Walk Project' that emerged directly from the limitations of the covid lockdown. I found myself looking to the routine meditative experience of mindfully walking my dog on our permitted daily walk, as a testing ground for creative ideas.
All this work has been created from digital images taken, or shells collected, on Shaldon Beach.

A thread through my work is a striving to make visible the magic of life in what we may experience as the mundane, to make explicit the divine within the ‘ordinary’. Referencing Buddhist walking meditation and sand mandalas, these images mainly created from what can be found underfoot in the sand on the beach, are in the form of mandalas.

In Asian traditions mandalas are be seen as a visual representation of the cosmic universe, and as an aid to meditation whereby entering the mandala and proceeding towards its center, you are guided toward a transcendent experience of the interconnected wholeness of all creation.

Digital image, Giclee Print on 300gsm Fine Art Smooth 100% Cotton Rag paper

33.5X33.5cm

Framed