Artists Statement.

‘The Benevolent Universe’
“What quantum calculations show is that we and our universe live and breathe in what amounts to a sea of motion – a quantum sea of light.”
(L. McTaggart, The Field: 2003).

This series of work sprang from my interest in outer space with its dynamic power, size, colour and light. I named this series ‘The Benevolent Universe’ because following surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and while in my ‘worst hell’, there was a realization of something infinitely precious at my core: perfect peace; a peace ‘that passed all understanding’. I realized that the power that sustains the manifest world is intelligent, alive, whole, completely unified, full, and present, here and now.

Having recently begun working in neon (and at times other lighting effects), I discovered that I prefer to hide the light behind wood, boards, mirrors or metals, thereby creating a ‘halo effect’ that gently, although vibrantly, illuminates the work. These artworks, to me, are therapeutic and healing. They cast a coloured glow, particularly in the fading light and something stirs within, a quiet joy, leaving me centred and peaceful.