I recently qualified as an art therapist, accredited by the Health and Care Professions Council. As well as continuing my own art practice I intend to base my art therapy practice in the studio.
I moved, with my wife Fabiola, from London to Bath at the beginning of November. She will also be in the studio, sometimes, to do her own art-making.
To make the space workable needs thoughtful attention; it has to suit the privacy needed for art therapy; and I need the concentration of time for my own art-making.
I have felt welcomed by everyone I've met. My sense is that there's a community of artists here working individually, whilst making an interactive hub where ideas can be reflected on.
Over time, as I settle in I hope to participate more in this creative community.
These line drawings show something of my work. My image-making process can be described as: scribbling; from an embryonic processing of marks – mostly on paper – an image forms. This image – so it seems – has been lurking in some known, and unknown, part of me.
When I am at work I let go of my arm so as to let the materials flow. Yet, in my mind, I am a part of the form which begins to show itself. Through the medium of the materials – with my hand, eyes, and thoughts guiding – it finds its way out into a visual presence –
reflecting back something of me and something of the culture I inhabit.
Often the content of the work I do surprises me. The images can sometimes feel too raw.
With time and distance I tend to see them with a more objective eye, and begin to find a narrative in them.
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