Artist's statement
Rationale
My works have resulted from the investigation of mythology in modern art, both as subject matter and as a method of approaching concepts of creation, revelation, and the subconscious. I began by looking at classical myths and their renderings in the art of the ancient world, mediaeval and Renaissance Europe, and later periods to compare the uses of myth with other narrative and pictorial approaches.
Throughout the creation of my works for this exhibition, I unravelled the mythic content of art. ‘Goddess’ is made with linocut. While creating the motifs for this artist’s book, I traced the myths of the Indian deities and their reinterpretations in contemporary visual art. ‘Muses in the sun’ represents the first fairy photographers who created their own myths. In the making of both these works, I focused on the nature of myth as a central aspect of traditional cultures and as a vehicle for communication on a level beyond that of narrative or description.
