The paintings ‘Sakura Kiss’ and ‘the Doors’ are in amalgamation with a story I have been working on for a number of years, ‘The Dreams of Frankie Cameron’.
Frankie Cameron is an artist living in Paris. Desperate for a quick fix to find inspiration, he experiments by mixing the seeds of an Amazonian plant with a white powdered pigment used in his paintings. He creates a powder that becomes a potent hallucinogenic drug that enables his dreams to directly come into reality as paintings.
Granted fulfilment of his desires, heightened power and with a growing demand for his new paintings; he becomes addicted to the drug. Illusion, reality and time become distorted, a world of dark dreams flood into his life and finally experiences of mental instability.
It is a story of conflict between the Ego and a search for a Soul, about the duality that is within us all and becomes one of redemption and insight.
"The Doors"
Medium: painting: egg tempera and oil glazes on canvas
Size: 60 x 60 cm
Year: 2009
“The Doors”
“Koi Nymphs”
“Intimacy”
