The T S Eliot series

This group of works takes the poetry of T.S. Eliot as a starting point.  There are recurring images in the poetry of water, rocks and shadows, things beneath the surface, the longing for water / meaning in an arid land, the longing for faith / certainty in a brutalised and changing world.  

My own work uses this collage of ideas to make images that have reference to Eliot's time and the past, but also obliquely to current events in the world.  That's important, in that the universal themes are always current, but also that experience of the past should bring interpretation to the present. 

We live in an increasingly global and multi-sensory environment full of often conflicting and overlapping stimuli.  I still hold to the view that visual art can exist in its own timeline alongside all the other things clamouring for our attention. 

I don't intend my work to illustrate the poems but, I hope, complement and celebrate the poetry and I'll be pleased if people go back to Eliot's work and rediscover it for themselves.