All the titles in this series are lines from an excerpt of the Tennyson poem ‘in memoriam’ which alludes to the impermanence of what we believe to be reality. That the context by which we define ‘me’, the landscape within which we orientate ourselves is illusory and only exists because that makes us secure in the idea there is an i and we are within some thing.

This work is a process of trying to fathom the notion that I am very much the do-maker of everything I perceive, hence the word ‘mutable’ that I have agency over that which I perceive, as what I perceive is me.

These rather vague notions never really made concrete sense to me, until I realised that in the very creation of an artwork, I can see this universal idea carried out in miniature. When I work I have little prior knowledge as to what it will be or how it will look or turn out.

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An awful lot has changed in my life in the last several years since just before becoming a husband and a father. It was an extremely dark time back then and stemmed from a darker past! But I’ve come to believe that ‘the wake does not drive the boat’ it is the now which creates the wake. Which helped me escape a bit of a prison of my own construction, that if could fix the past I’d be ok today. But today I can work in a spiritual way, creatively and love my family and put love into everything I do.