Over the past more than 50 years I’ve made at least 1000 mandalas.
Some have taken minutes to create.
Some have taken weeks & some have been work in progress only completed over months or years.
Here is a small selection of those completed mandalas & some of my current work in progress.
My main work in progress at the moment is a project I’ve been ‘working on’ since 2017.
It’s called “A Book of Elements”, inspired by Celtic gospels including The Book of Kells, The Book of Durrow & (close to home) The Lindisfarne Gospels.
My project has a rather different focus to these beautiful hand drawn & illustrated books created in the 8th & 9th centuries CE in Ireland, Wessex & Northumbria.
I currently have an application in to the Elephant Trust for funding towards completing the project and an exhibition.
The mandalas on this virtual selection are created in a number of different ways using a fairly wide range of media.
Digital - from my own photos on various cameras and iPhones then worked in Photoshop.
Analog - on paper, canvas, card & cloth using a wide variety of media including pencils, crayons, felt/fibre tip pens, inks, water colours, pastels, acrylics & a range of other tools including protractors, set squares, compasses & rulers
Sculptural - created on beaches & in woods using whatever materials were there.
Bowls & tiles - plan white bowls and tiles with patterns & mandalas painted onto them using acrylic felt tip pens & ceramic paints.
I’ve also included mandalas created by participants in workshops I’ve run.
The originals vary in size from 2 metres square to A2 and down to A6.