The Spirals Collection
Acrylic paintings inspired by spirals in nature, especially ammonites.
Artist Statement (Spirals)
There's something inherently delightful about spirals.
An ammonite; shell structure; vine tendrils; the curl of a seahorse tail;
Fibonacci spirals on cones or sunflowers...
Maybe it's the understated perfection of the curve as it increases in size.
Perhaps the simultaneous complexity and simplicity in a single structure.
The more I look, the more examples I find.
Observation reveals spiral variety: logarithmic, Fibonacci, Archimedean, helix....
I am reminded of lines from a Norman MacCaig poem:
"And my mind observed to me,
Or I to it, how ordinary
Extraordinary things are or
How extraordinary ordinary
Things are, like the nature of the mind
And the process of observing."
This is why I create.
To explore that which seems ordinary,
and reveal the extraordinary.
