(uplifting music) - All the work I do, is definitely an evolution, a kind of awakening.

It takes so long to do each piece that it contains many, many messages and stories.

It comes together as a sort of complete world or complete universe when it's finished.

All my work begins with going into nature, spending time there.

Nature is the starting points and it's the end points.

Interesting.

I wonder what kind they are I'm just in the middle as an appreciator of everything that I come across.

I've had firsthand experience of the kind of invisible intelligent matrix that links everything.

And that's is something that I bring back to my studio and pour out in my drawings.

Once I've gathered the objects I love to arrange them, so light falls on them.

They create an atmosphere.

It's putting certain colors together, certain shapes together, and all of that is feeding me.

Oh yeah, look at that.

Wow.

I love to use a magnifying glass and really get in there and really study it with my eyes.

And it's really like entering a different world a different dimension.

The fungi that I'm drawing right now started to develop these really beautiful dots of mold that are turning into colonies.

And this is going really well with my idea of the spiral galaxy, because they're like the little constellations that are appearing on the fungi forms.

These are definitely not purely botanical drawings The work contains lots of minute observations.

It also contains things that I've made up.

So really it's a kind of collaboration of my imagination and beautiful found objects.

(uplifting music) (pencil sharpening) (pencils clattering) The way I choose the colors is completely instinctual.

I tend to look at the drawing in the morning, sharpen up a load of pencils and work with those.

But then in the afternoon, I might put all those aside and work with a whole different set of pencils.

I grew up in the British Isles, and anywhere where there's a nuclear submarine base.

My father was a submariner.

My mother would be pretty much left on her own, to look after these rambunctious twins.

She knew that if she gave me pencils and paper that it would keep me out of trouble.

And I would be perfectly happy for a long time.

Art was really my sanctuary.

It was my private place that I used to go to.

It was the place where I felt secure and happy.

It's still exactly that.

It's a place that I love to be most of all practicing the art.

I mean, sometimes I think about my practice and it seems more like a monk or a nun rather than what somebody might perceive as an artist, the daily routine of it.

It's slow and even and peaceful.

(uplifting music) I hope when people look the work that they get drawn into that flow and it takes them away from their conceptual mind, their thinking mind.

Maybe bringing people more to their own kind of authentic self just through, just through looking.

I think things can have that effect when you ponder them or spend time with them.

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