Meditation Symphonies
The Meditation Symphonies is an ongoing series of highly decorative, thangka inspired artworks.
The artworks draw from a wide range of influences including Tibetan thangkas, traditional still life painting, charity shop objects, William Morris wallpaper, Liberty fabrics, paper collage, and ornamental decoration. These references are filtered through a maximalist visual language built from symmetry, repetition, pattern, and colour.
Each artwork is carefully structured around a central focal point, with symmetrical compositions that create balance and rhythm across the surface.
Looking Within the Symmetry
While each piece has a clear centre, the surrounding detail is intentionally dense.
Like traditional thangkas, the works are designed to be explored slowly. The viewer can begin at the focal point, then move outward through layers of pattern, motifs, and ornamentation, gradually uncovering details as the eye travels across the artwork.
Pattern plays a central role in both the making and viewing of the work. Repetition and decoration have a calming, grounding effect and carry a sense of familiarity and homeliness which is the quality that sits at the heart of the series.
A Practice, Not a Finished Series
The Meditation Symphonies is intentionally open-ended and will continue to grow over time.
The first ten artworks were released in 2025. New works are added gradually, with a further group of ten planned for release this year. Rather than reaching a fixed conclusion, the series is designed to expand and evolve, allowing ideas, motifs, and patterns to accumulate over time. I really enjoy making these artworks, so why would I stop?
Meditation Symphonies: Volume One
