Digital Giclee

Dream Sketch, 27/01/2010
ink on paper

The main focus of my art practice is the study of dreams and the reasoning of unconscious content. My creative process begins with the daily recording of a 'dream beat' into a dream sketch diary. From these drawings further active imagination sketches are made. Active Imagination is an Analytical Psychology term, first used by Carl G Jung. It describes the process of projecting unconscious content. During this creative stage I am activating my imagination using the recollection of recorded dream memory. Imaginative imagery is then 'projected' onto the canvas through the action of painting. Rather than working from an observable reality, I am drawing from the observations of my 'mind's eye'.