Happy Christmas to all my family and friends. I hope you all had safe travels home and went unhindered by the Robotocizied Flying Demons of Gatwick Airport (Unrelated to the Ghost Cars of Croydon). I hope you are all happy and safe during this holiday season and in the year ahead!
Announcement - The Conscious Baby Program @ The Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Health (APPPAH)
I am very proud to announce that I have had my logo selected by the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health this week in the re-branding of their Conscious Baby Program. The APPPAH carries out pioneering research in understanding how the conditions of the intrauterine environment, birth and early infancy influence human development.
Through this they gain fascinating insight into the importance of strong parental bonding experiences, attunement, communication, loving responsive attention, and how these things help to develop healthy attachment patterns, resilience, stronger immune systems, better emotional self-regulation and a deeply ingrained sense of self-worth.
At the same time deepening our understanding of what happens when pre-natal, birth or early life neglect, distress and trauma occur; how this presents in later life and this leads us to more informed and effective Psychotheraputic practices.
After all if we wish to fully understand any story we need to start at the beginning.
For anyone with little ones, working with children or an interest in Psychology, I would highly recommend checking out their resources over at:
Or the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health’s main site at: www.birthpsychology.com
New Digital Collage - An Emergence To Consciousness
An Emergence To Consciousness is a Digital Collage which manifests into being by synthesizing meaning from our environments and experiences. Our intuition guides our focus, absorbing some information and highlighting some aspects of our experience and editing out other elements based on our immediate situation; but also through the most intimate elements of ourselves, our personal histories, our values, our interests, our agendas, our vices, our pleasures, our hates and our loves. A subtle and powerful process of questioning. What feels pertinent? What feels meaningful? What feels right?
In Gestalt psychology we describe this process as a figure (That is something of meaning, needing our attention) which emerges from the background of our experience, to be engaged with and then when the necessary change comes about the figure of our focus fades into the background again, altering it to in the process. There is a cycle to our experience of the world, awareness, engagement, creative enterprise, integration and finally a return to rest, making space for a new figure to emerge into awareness.
Upcoming Exhibition - Our Earth @ The Kunsthuis Gallery, Crayke, North Yorkshire, UK - Running 24th March – 23rd December 2018
I am very happy to announce my participation in the upcoming Our Earth exhibition at the Kunsthuis Gallery in North Yorkshire. I am particularly happy as this exhibition is keeping with the ethos of the work in raising awareness and promoting contemplation around fracking, carbon emissions global warming and other human impacts on the wider environment.
As part of this exhibition the gallery will donate 5% sales commission to their chosen charity Friends of the Earth, an environmental organisation campaigning for a safer climate.
For the exhibition statement and more from the Kunsthuis Gallery checkout: http://kunsthuisgallery.com/our-earth-2018/
Opening Reception:
Saturday 24th March 2018 3-6pm
Exhibition Dates:
Saturday 24th March – 23rd December 2018
The Gallery:
Kunsthuis Gallery
Mill Green Farm
Crayke, UK, YO61 4TT
Upcoming Exhibition - SNAP TO GRID @ Lacda, 104 East Fourth Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA
I am delighted to announce my participation in an Upcoming Exhibition:
SNAP TO GRID @ Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, 104 East Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013, USA
From: December 14, 2017-January 6, 2018
Opening Reception: Saturday December 16, 6-9pm
Art Walk Preview Thursday December 1
Gallery Statement:
Every year for 50 years the L.A. Municipal Gallery has held its "Open Call" exhibit where any artist can show up with their art and an entry fee (to benefit gallery programs) and the piece is shown. The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art decided to launch an international experiment of the same nature where the artists upload images that are printed and hung by the gallery. The hundreds of works are displayed in a grid like installation (reminiscent of postcard art shows of the 1980's) where every work submitted is exhibited.
The usual (less than democratic) selection process where only the precious few are chosen is turned on its head in a curatorial anarchy where everyone gets to participate and the viewer is literally left to be the judge. The show represents a snapshot of a current moment in art history when digital imaging has reached the hands of the many, an age where "smart culture" belongs to an all pervasive social media. From Thailand to Texas, amateur to academic, beautiful to banal and beyond the monumental quantity and variety of "Snap to Grid" becomes an aesthetic experience where each individual piece adds to an agglomerative effect that has a life of its own.