Drawn from the my own inner mind and perception, my artwork is how I converse with the world. The artwork that I have been developing the Cardiff School of Art and Design is open to viewer’s interpretation and ambiguity. It represents how the unconscious overlaps with the reality and our conscious mind. I want to explore how our consciousness extends outwards into the objects we create, the world around us, the modern technology and art. My intention for my artwork is to become a doorway into the hidden, the unknown, to represent an in-between world of conscious/subconscious.
Following streams of consciousness using subconscious imagery and autonomous drawings – I develop a flows of artwork. My artwork could be seen to be a psychological process, there is a ritual, repetition of patterns, my art is a search for unknowns. Mystery fascinates me, the afterlife consciousness, unconscious thoughts. Art has helped me to understand the different sides of my life, has become my own way to understand life through creating a personal language and symbolism that interacts with my deepest inner thoughts and expressing these interactions externally.
The underlying theme throughout my studies has been to create work that explores the hidden, the mysterious, the unknown and delves into the blurred lines between conscious and unconscious states My intention is to research the true form of the world that humans perceive around them and what part does imagination play in creating our reality, I believe that many things are hidden from human eyes and senses
Wrth ddefnyddio fy syniadau a fy nghanfyddiadau fy hun, rydw i’n siarad â’r byd drwy fy ngwaith celf. Gall gwylwyr ddehongli‘r gwaith celf y bum yn ei ddatblygu yn Ysgol Gelf a Dylunio Caerdydd fel y mynnont. Mae’n cynrychioli’r modd y mae’r is-ymwybod yn gorgyffwrdd â realiti a’n hymwybod. Rydwi am ystyried sut y mae ein hymwybyddiaeth yn ymestyn allan i’r gwrthrychau yr ydyn ni’n eu creu, i‘r byd o‘n cwmpas, i’r dechnoleg fodern a chelf. Fy nod ydy y bydd fy ngwaith celf yn borth i’r cuddiedig, i‘r anhysbys , i gynrychioli’r byd rhwng yr ymwybod a’r isymwybod,
Drwy ddefnyddio delweddau isymwybodol a lluniau ymreolus i ddilyn ffrydiau ymwybyddiaeth, rydw i’n datblygu dylifiadau o waith celf. Gellir ystyried fy ngwaith celf fel proses seicolegol; mae ‘na ddefod, ail-adrodd patrymau, chwilio am yr anhysbys. Mae yma ddirgelwch, y bywyd tragwyddol, syniadau isymwybodol. Mae celf wedi datblygu yn fodd i mi ddeall bywyd drwy greu iaith bersonol a symboliaeth sy’n rhyngweithio gyda fy meddyliau dyfnaf a chyfleu’r rhain yn allanol.
Y thema sylfaenol yn ystod fy astudiaeth oedd creu gwaith a fyddai’n ystyried y cuddiedig, y dirgel, yr anhysbys ac ymchwilio i niwl aneglur y cyflwr rhwng yr ymwybod a’r isymwybod. Fy mwriad ydy ystyried gwir ffurf y byd sydd o’n cwmpas a pha ran y mae dychymyg yn ei chwarae pan fyddwn yn creu ein realiti. Rydw i‘n credu fod llawer o bethau ynghudd rhag ein llygaid a’n synhwyrau.
