“I am human, and I am an artist. This is the most astounding thing, an experienced question which I will spend my whole life discovering. Every single day of my life, it is a mind-blowing joy.”
Presented here as an alternative to my Artist CV, One Year One Image is an at-a-glance overview of my work as an artist since 1994, briefly documenting the various transformations and changes over the years, from idle drawings and comic artforms through playful archetypes and digital lines to my entrance into visionary art styles, and then beyond, to more challenging artworks exploring the queer and the indigenous. Updated July 2019, with 25 years of imagery!
Oh Yes He Fucked Me Way Beyond Sensual 60cm x 120cm One of an emerging series, entitled The Ecstasy In Me, of deeply personal artworks on my own experiences of sexual ectsasy. This graphic but beautiful series will challenge notions that the intimate realities of queer sexualities must necessarily be hidden from public sight, with openly sexual self-portraits which show the beauty, the vitality, the playful and the transcendental enfolded within gay sexual activities. |
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Only One Track Leads Heavenwards 75cm x 150cm In early 2018, following on from my trip to Colombia (see 2017 entry below), I produced a series of works in homage to Mama Coca, Madre de Ayu, and the beautiful teachings she unfolded into me. This dual-image artwork is the result of that unfolding, and was produced for the 2018 Chimeria Festival of Visionary Arts. |
Chiguexica Muisca 135cm x 60cm in 3 panels In 2017, I was invited to contribute an artwork for an indigenous and shamanic gathering in Colombia; this work is the result. It depicts golden tunjo offerings emerging from the sacred waters of Colombia and returning as ancestors to remind the modern people of their indigenous roots and connections with land and magic. |
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!Khwa ~ Rain 90cm x 30cm In February & March 2016, I was honoured to travel to the township of Melkhoutfontein, Western Cape, South Africa, to paint murals on houses as part of the Dreamcatchers South Africa PaintUp with Kamamma project. While I was there, the Bushman image of the Swift People entered my dreams and turned the whole experience magical... |
Afer the Fernal Creatrix 50cm x 75cm A continuation of the Fernal World series, there were two mythical figures, Afer and Lucaion who I felt needed further artistic exploration, since they were principal subjects of the Fernal mythology that I had created for The Encyclopaedia of Fernal Affairs (see 2013). Here is seen Afer in the act of cosmic creation... |
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K'u Ikil Ta Yaxal Vinajel 50cm x 75cm In March 2014, I visited the city of San Cristobal de las Casas in Mexico, in the heart of the Tzotzil Maya territory. While there, I attended several ceremonies, and during one of them, surrounded by the transcendetal images of Mayan crosses and stars, I beheld a vision of the blue sky. This image became a pathway towards a change in my visual style. |
Fernal Underworld Garden 60cm x 90cm Produced as part of The Encyclopedia of Fernal Affairs, envisaging an imaginary Garden of Fernal Delights, we see here Ayia, triple-gendered shaman of the underworld, surrounded by hir emblems and the trance songs s/he sings to transform the fernal world into magic. This artwork was part of a series which initiated an entire project of creative mythology... |
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Persephone 100cm x 100cm in four 50cm square panels At the end of 2011, I turned my attention to Eleusis and the mysteries and epiphanies contained therein. Here we see a sacred icon of Perephone re-emergent in her aspects of Maiden and Queen of Death, which marks my return to the study of mythology... |
The Dream Of Jaguar Slash 120cm x 60cm This artwork springs from a surreal dream of meeting a jaguar in the heart of the jungle and receiving a wound, and aided in transforming in dark period of my life to one redolent with creativity and vitality. Sometimes the kindest cut is the deepest... |
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Torn Apart 60cm x 180cm This multi-layered work expresses the archetypal shamanic tearing-apart process that has been a constant throughout my life, and which in 2010 has been a strong influence. Part of the series of work entitled Life:Blood which expresses visionary experience more directly. |
Honey For The Mistress Of The Labyrinth 150cm x 90cm in 15 panels Inspired by the vibrant images of vitality found throughout Minoan archaeology, this multi-panel work explores the original Cretan labyrinth as a transformative spiral dance, and initiates Minoan Honey project exploring the life lessons the Minoans offer us. |
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Who's Painting My Dream? 50cm x 40cm Created as part of the :: salviaspace :: project, this work expresses ambiguity as to where visions and dreams come from? Are they from within or is there an outside influence upon them? On entheogenic journeys, whose will directs the voyager...? |
The Mysterious Seven Macaw 35cm x 50cm A playful digital work intended as an organic take on an ancient Mayan myth of a god who claimed to be creator of the world but was laid low by the Hero Twins in an episode taken from the great K'ichee epic the Popol Vuh. |
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Flying Fox (Inca Sky detail) 50cm x 40cm Excerpted from the large format piece Inca Sky, this piece expresses a typically Andean understanding of a changing sky, and the attendant sense of loss that accompanied each change. |
Making Magic With The Birds Of Paradise 42cm x 59cm Originally created to develop a new visual style and drawing from a previous artwork, this piece expresses the sheer joy of being alive and was the first piece I ever publically exhibited. It springs from a petroglyph representing the Sun found in the Colombian Amazon. |
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Human Pods 30cm x 21cm This piece is taken from my ongoing art project :: salviaspace :: which explores the entheogenic herb salvia divinorum. It recalls a shifting visual experience in which I saw pods of impersonal humanoid forms rolling by as if waiting to be born. |
Central Mountain 84cm x 59cm A simple mandala based on the cosmologies of some Plains Native American peoples which functions as a calendar as well as a map of the universe. This was eventually incorporated into the later Modern Palaeolithic series of works exhibited in 2009. |
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Marc Stares At His Empty Hand 30cm x 30cm (circular) A unique portrait of a visually paradoxical man - physically strong but emotionally fragile - in which the inks did not settle properly on the media, producing a textured finish which I had intended to develop, but never managed to. A unique work therefore. |
David 20cm x 50cm A portrait of an old friend made from a photograph and eventually recreated in 2004, David is still recognisable despite the nonlinear bubbling effect. Part of a series of male portrait drawings made over several years. |
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Sky (Early Version) 30cm x 70cm Time hasn't been kind to this detailed piece, mainly due to the rough and ready nature of the corrugated card media. Its delapidated nature also moved my partner to support me in my art work: he couldn't bear to see this piece looking so ragged... |
Ahoahel 30cm x 21cm An experiment with typographic forms using the fragment of an old Native American mythical narrative as a base for the text. Creating typefaces and neographies is a passion of mine and it sneaks into some of my visionary work occasionally. |
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Minotaur 120cm x 85cm A piece made while living in Japan, this image explores the Greek myth of the Minotaur and the nature of modern mythological beliefs hidden under worldly concerns. This was an early work made only a few months after my decision to become an artist... |
Birth 30cm x 21cm A mythical piece taken from a series of simple drawings retelling a Bronze Age mandala of the Star Son, as recovered by Robert Graves and others, and evident in numerous Greek and British mythological forms. |
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Go-Go Boy #1 35cm x 25cm A sorrowful twenty-minute portrait of a man whose name I have forgotten but whose eyes I probably won't. I did a lot of this in my youth - meet a guy at a club and later at home ask to make a portrait of him. Many said yes. I called them Go-Go Boy images... |
Desana 95 30cm x 21cm A very early abstract piece using the same petroglyph as a base as was used in Making Magic With The Birds Of Paradise (see the entry for 2005) |
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Twins 30cm x 21cm One of a set of pencil drawings based on strange dreams I had while at university. This image of other-worldly twins prefigures across many years some of the subject matter I would eventually pursue as an artist... |
