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Artist's thoughts:
Antoni Gaudi once said, "Man does not create…he discovers." Creativity is a strange, delightful and sometimes tortuous phenomenon, poorly understood even in our enlightened times; in fact, we may understand it less in our modern minds because our culture demands an exact analysis of any field. The trouble is, the urge to create artistically constantly resists scientific scrutiny.
Probably more than any other area of my life, my work seems to be fed and nurtured by dreams: that vast, spiralling mesh of all human experience, conscious or unconscious. The persistence of visual images in my sleep and the subtle but powerful influence of the Land beneath me and within me go a very long way to explain what I create.
Gaudi went on to say, "Originality consists in returning to the origin." Like our dreams themselves, nothing we do can ever be entirely original or separate.
But it is the fusion of the ancient and the contemporary that has shaped my work. You can only be so deliberate when creating. The rest is up to something else that we still cannot define. Sometimes the whole process has such a life of its own that we might consider the artist to be the medium.
by Jilly Tinniswood
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