Bruce Rimell's Art Visions

:: Bruce Rimell's Illustrations ::

Illustrative work has long been a staple of mine since my teenage days of comic illustration. These days the work is (hopefully) a great deal more sophisticated, and explores a wide variety of themes, although never quite leaving the territory of the visionary, the archetypal and the sacred. Please click on one of the images below to view. Each page will open in a new browser window. See also my NEW WORK page.

Z-Series Z-Series
A series of cathartic drawings that used familar imagery to exorcise some old self-destructive stuff out of me that no longer served. These playful yet dark images function as a kind of inwardly-focussed set of self portraits expressed during a lonely summer. Descriptions are keywords only...
 
Modern palaeolithic Modern Palaeolithic
The 'Modern Palaeolithic' exhibition also included nine large format illustrations which explored Palaeolithic visual language. From leaping horses to the flickering entoptic imageries common to both migraines and sensory deprivation, these drew from both academic and sense-based research...
 
Entheodigital EntheoDigital
Mixed media illustrations treading the boundary between hand-drawn and digital to explore deep visionary and fragmented consciousness states ranging from the shamanic to the disqueting. Self-aware and indepedent visionary beings emerge here, dissolving inner into outer...
 
Digital Work 2004-09 Digital Work 2004-09
Digital images which were produced as single edition digital prints on textiles, with themes ranging from the organic reality of the human form to Mayan astronomical mythology seen in the tales of Hunahpu and Xblanaque. The longform work 'Inca Sky' is also included...
 
Myths & Sacred Arcetypes 2004-08 Myths & Sacred Archetypes 2004-08
Work visible here consists of ink and marker works expressing the sacred mythologies of the world's peoples, often taking petroglyphic motifs as a launch pad. Images of the Old European ship of fertility frame visual accounts of the Dogon creation myth and the sacred art upon Israel's Mount Karkom...

 

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