IMAGE OF MUSIC

Image of Music is a long-term artistic practice developed from my experience of Western classical music as both                     a listener and performer.

Rather than illustrating a particular piece of music, I explore how rhythm, repetition, tension, interval, silence and memory can be translated into visual form. Through drawing, painting, installation and moving image, musical                 experience is transformed into line, colour, structure, movement and space.

My understanding of music also extends into the way I experience the visible world. In landscapes and gardens,                   I often encounter structures that remind me of music: the horizontal lines of land and water, the verticality of trees,          the movement of branches in the wind, birdsong, insects, and the smallest changes of rhythm and movement.

Nature is not experienced as a silent image, but as a living field of rhythm, sound and response.

This perception sometimes brings recognisable elements — trees, flowers, water or landscape — into my work.                  These paintings are not a separate departure from Image of Music. They emerge from the same enquiry:                              how can something heard, felt, remembered or sensed, but not directly visible, become visual form?

My encounters with the work and thinking of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee have provided two different                     points of connection within this enquiry. Kandinsky opened possibilities for understanding the relationship                   between music and abstraction, while Klee offered a different affinity: a way of thinking about rhythm, nature                         and visible form through a musical sensibility.

I do not seek to illustrate music or nature literally. I am interested in the moment when listening, seeing,                      memory and sensation overlap — and when their traces begin to take visual form.