Wall of Gold - Alchemical Tour - Showing at Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, PL15 7SJ
 The Form and Fear of Black Shapes? (‘Imagining the New Truth’ (4, 2017)).
‘Symbolism is as old as the human ability to link ideas and beliefs with objects and occurrences in the world. Integral to ancient Eastern philosophy and Western medieval traditions, the study of symbolism was powerfully revived in the twentieth century through interest in the psychology of the unconscious: in myths, dreams, and visions; and in literature and art, especially surrealism’.
(Cirlot, 2014)
A proposal for research through practical methodology into the form and fear of irregular shapes; in particular to the colour or tone known as Black; Melanophobia, in relation to my current work as an international painter  concerning imagery associated with the rise of Isis as perceived by the West  and the role of the ‘artist’ as a ‘creative terrorist’ and interpreter/observer of one’s own times 
 VW: "My subject is the material of Paint itself; the gestural expression and the 'chance' shape which sparks an idea.
I work in differing series but if there was a theme perhaps it would be one of 'fragmentation'; of light through colour or as now, working with a material that literally fragments. I 'made' a painting, as opposed to 'painting' a painting, of the end of the world titled ‘Elemental Manifestation’! In this painting occurred a shape resembling a shrouded figure. The painting was banned by an international art gallery for fear of inciting public unease. People’ interpreted the shape as that of an Islamic figure in a Burka, equating such a shape to represent a modern ‘devil’; the banned black flag; and the counter position of the flag known as The Cross of St. George, with its contradictory patronage by differing countries cultural politics such as, Catalonia, Lithuania, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Georgia, Beirut, Malta, Palestine (home of his Mother), not to mention the cities of Istanbul, Moscow, and Venice.  The material I used was slate, a carbon compound which shatters violently when struck. I intend to use this characteristic of the material to portray a violent act such as detonation within the human form in its many guises.  I am continuing to explore this reaction in my ‘Wall of Gold’ Open Winter Studio in Cornwall, 2017, through use of a motif based upon Paolo Uccello’s ‘St George and the Dragon’ (Uccello, 1470) depicting a conflict of Eastern and Western ideology through visual imagery”.

                                                       The Dark Madonna - above.     All in Vain (St. George despondent) - below                                                                                            

Earth, Air, Fire and Water