Home My Favourite Hiding Place My Favourite Hiding Place Some paintings don’t speak. They don’t have “a story” to tell. There is no “meaning in the art”.Is that allowed? Is it okay that I can sit down conceive and execute a a well crafted work...
Home The Golden Gate Cancer – The Golden Gate There is a place in the sky where the path of the sun crosses that of the milky way, forming a cross. In ancient times it was known as the ‘Gate of Souls’ or the Golden Gate, where newly incarnated souls were said to...
Home » inspiration Drawing Down the Moon Art does not have to make sense. Art fills the space left by the rational mind and completes it. Jake Baddeley Drawing Down the Moon Although I usually sketch in a dreamlike state, uncritically following where the composition...
Home » inspiration Dream Flight Dream Flight If a painting was a dream you might be able to interpret it as if it was a message from the unconscious. I am not a writer but a painter – but few people speak paint – so I will try and translate, although this...
Home » inspiration Threshold Threshold 3 – Transitions, translations, transformations Although I usually sketch in a dreamlike state, uncritically following where the composition leads, it is often interesting and illuminating to interpret the image...
Home » inspiration The Goddess The Goddess – Divine Femininity Over the years a recurring theme in my work has been the Goddess. The divine feminine. It seems to be something that is making a comeback. Many years ago it was popular amongst our ancestors who...