Introduction

This website contains a record of my work - paintings, drawings and writing - created over the past ten years. More will be added as it appears. All of this has been greatly influenced by research in the brain sciences by contemporary neuroscientists and neuropsychologists. I believe that this research is laying the foundations of the most important revolution in our understanding of what we humans are and our place in the material world. Even more than the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions of the past our growing knowledge of how our brains work is providing philosophical and ethical challenges of fundamental importance, the repercussions of which are only just beginning to reveal themselves. Not only in the arts but also in ethics, politics and social organisation, our understanding of our brains will change our self-image, and consequently our behaviour, profoundly.

We are beginning to be able to see how our brains create and sustain a coherent emotional and intellectual structure for use as a tool with which we can make our way in the world. We are beginning to realise the fact that we are not simply looking out of windows in our heads at the material world, but experiencing a universe created (and constantly recreated) by our brains from information arriving from our senses.

The visual art shown here expresses a combined emotional and philosophical reaction to these ideas. The written work explores how these works make their effects and offers ideas on the purpose and meaning of art and religion and their relationship to conscious, analytical thought.

Another part of this exploration has been the creation of the organisation 'Art and Mind'. By means of festivals and symposia, I have brought together scientists, thinkers and artists to share a common stage from which to inform (and discuss with) the general public these crucial ideas in our understanding of the human condition.

Please look at the website at www.artandmind.org. You may be inspired to join in the greatest adventure available to us in our age - the exploration of inner space, the search for ourselves, Or, more plainly, to try to find out what makes us tick.