Bruce Rimell is a visionary artist and illustrator whose wanderings across the Earth have brought him to the twin cities of Leeds-Bradford in northern England, where he lives with his partner Chris, very much in love. Born and raised in the county of Wiltshire, a landscape of sustained megalithic magic, he never quite lost that sense of animism we all have as children; this along with childhood migraine experiences of a profoundly visionary nature nurtured in him a drive to explore the origins both of humanity and the Universe itself. Days and months as a child playing among the stones of his ancestors at places like Avebury also honed his ability to sense the history and traces that people leave behind, traces that can sometimes still be intuited when one's heart is still.
Mythology and cosmology both became ruling passions of his life and following his graduation from the University of Birmingham with a degree in astrophysics, he found himself in Japan being drawn to the path of an artist. He then engaged some ten years in self-teaching in a variety of artforms and disciplines, from anthropology to dance, plant teachers to quantum physics, evolutionary psychology to esoteric philosophy but was drawn particularly to the ancestral forms of petroglyphs and rock art, and through these began to develop non-rational and archaic approaches to creating art.
His work seeks to bring the very ancient into the field of modern experience, to re-envision these archaic lifeways into an urban setting and to make sacred again the image of the human being unfettered by original sin or the sorrows of the mundane world. Imagery from the Palaeolithic and the Neolithic feature strongly, these being the last periods in human history that he feels humanity had any sense of sanity: these ancient cultures seemed to value care and creativity above power and violence and Bruce's sensing is that these peoples have something improtant to teach us, something all humans alive today need to remember.
:: bruce says ::
"Mixing the Visual Kykeon, painting sparks across the Soul, invoking the Sacred, dreaming the Dreamtime real, art as a vehicle for transformation, transforming into a true Dionysiac wild child, listening to the self-transforming Machine Elves, bringing my spirit alive, dancing with joy to the Heartbeat of the Universe, envisioning the Transcendent Human and the future Networked Partnership societies, coming to understand the Blade so as to better realise the Chalice Vision, listening to the Voice of Gaia, becoming a Cosmic Conduit, communing with our Ancestors from Palaeolithic to now, walking the Earth and keeping my feet on the ground, remembering the glowing lineage that began at Blombos, working for progressive social change and human rights, encouraging Human Versatility and polyvalent modes of expression, discovering the Visionary Within, embodying the Trickster Essences of Loki and Fox, feeling the red ochre blood of millennia of ancestors coursing through my human veins, revealing maps of Archetypal Consciousness and Salvic Experience... envisioning a new Global Shamanic Consciousness... transforming Blade into Chalice everywhere I travel... yes, these are my missions in life and art..."
Bruce and his partner Chris atop Mt Kolekto on the south coast of Crete
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| Visit Bruce's salvia art website | Visit Chris's website of writings | Say hello to me on Facebook! |
