Echoes of Transcendence

Thank You

You've arrived here after reading my email - thank you!

Firstly, you may be wondering exactly what I meant by "support”, so before going any further, I'd like to explain:

The support I referred to isn't a donation; I’m not asking for charity. And it certainly isn't an appeal based on obligation. It simply means supporting the work itself; in other words a small, medium or possibly larger commitment to purchase.

Over the past forty-odd years I've devoted much of my life to creating paintings, books, ideas and experiences that explore emotion, beauty, mystery and transcendence - especially through art (and music). Maybe you’ve followed that journey for years - or even decades.

But more recently I've found myself in a period of change. Alongside the artwork I've been putting increasing energy into developing The Creative Freedom Academy, which should be ready to launch later this summer.

While at the same time, like many independent artists, I've been feeling the effects of a changing and, to be honest, an increasingly challenging marketplace. Galleries are closing; or at least struggling. There is uncertainty in the air, which always tends to hold off luxury spending. This period now reminds me of the early 90s with inflation running high; or 2008-9 with the banking crash, etc. The post lockdown recession is said to have finished in 2024 - but taking into account other global factors uncertainty remains.

The easiest thing would probably have been to stay quiet, to put on a brave face and carry on as though nothing has changed; even slipping into debt again. Instead, I’m choosing to tell the truth - to tell you how it is right now for me. Not because I want sympathy or expect to be rescued; simply because it feels more honest.

If you choose to support the work at this time, I want you to know how deeply grateful I am. And if you choose not to, or would like to and feel unable, that's completely fine too. If you’ve followed my work for awhile, your encouragement, interest and presence over the years have already meant more than you probably realise.

If you'd like to see some of the ways you can support the work, simply continue below.

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There is a quality of light that does not arrive all at once.

It returns gradually—almost unnoticed at first. A slight shift in tone, a softening of edges, a sense that something long held in stillness is beginning to move again.

This exhibition gathers works that sit within that returning.

Rooted largely in the Cornish landscape, the paintings move between observation and openness. Coastlines, horizons, and weathered forms appear, but they are not fixed. They loosen, dissolve, and re-form—less as depictions of place, more as responses to the changing conditions of light and presence.

What emerges is not a record of a season, but a recognition of a process.

Light does not simply illuminate the land—it alters it. It reveals and conceals in equal measure. It shifts what can be seen, and how it is seen. In these works, that shifting becomes central. Colour opens. Space expands. Structure softens just enough to allow something less defined to come through.

Alongside the more recognisable landscapes, a number of abstract works are included—not as departure, but as continuation. Here, the land is no longer referenced directly, yet the same movement remains. The same sense of emergence, of something returning without needing to be named.

There is no single viewpoint offered.

Instead, the paintings invite a slower way of looking—one that does not seek to resolve too quickly, but allows the work to unfold over time. What is given is not immediate clarity, but a space in which perception can adjust.

The title speaks simply.

Not of a dramatic arrival, nor of a fixed moment—but of something ongoing. A return that happens again and again, regardless of whether it is noticed.

And perhaps that is what is being encountered here.

Not the light itself—
but the quiet recognition of its presence,
and the subtle change it brings with it.

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