New work on paper available
- aphillipsarts
- May 19
- 3 min read
Updated: Jun 13
I'm pleased to present my first finished works of 2025. In pastel and ink on paper, I have sought to evoke themes of thresholds, the sublime, and sentience of land and sea.
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Azomai
Acrylic ink, iron gall ink, pastel, on Fabriano paper
Paper size: 66 x 56 cm
The following passage is where the title for this work was discovered, and offers quite a succinct insight regarding the way I approach much of my work. Personally I would place an emphasis on the 'holy' as more immanent or chthonic, embodied within earthly forms, rather than being transcendent and separately located in an un-earthly realm.
"The word 'holy' derives from the Germanic halig, which means something that must be preserved 'whole' or intact, something not to be transgressed or violated. The Greek word for 'holy', by contrast, is less about conscious preservation and more about unmediated response: aghios comes from the verb azomai, which means simply 'to stand in awe, or in fear'.
The history of holy mountains rests on the tension between these two meanings - respectful stewardship and speechless terror, separation from the ordinary and interaction with the transcendent. It is through this act of separation, or rather, through the sudden encounter with the unexpected, with the utterly different, that humans are called to turn to their most inner self, and to the divine."
— Mountain - Nature and Culture, by Veronica della Dora
Where Two Worlds Meet
Acrylic ink, iron gall ink, pastel, on Fabriano paper
Paper size: 69 x 49 cm
With this piece I was reflecting upon the meeting of land with water, and the fluctuating sea levels that lead to submergence or erosion. Often the term 'landscape' takes prominence, and whilst it might be more obvious to those living in coastal areas with islands, for most it takes a leap of imagination to comprehend that the British Isles are an archipelago. It was my involvement with the Scottish Centre For Geopoetics that initially opened up this way of perceiving waterscapes for me.
The meeting of worlds in my image can also be seen as referring to other realms usually thought of as separate, but which in reality are interlaced. Perhaps what we might usually term the natural and supernatural, or the physical and immaterial.
The Ghosts In The Hill
Acrylic ink and pastel on Fabriano paper
Paper size: 76 x 56 cm
Straining towards the heavens, mountains, hills, and mounds are intimately connected with ancestry and the souls who have passed over. Many spiritual and allegorical teachings connect that aspect of Earth which comes closest to the stars as also being 'underworld'. In this image I am considering these themes, and also the genius loci, the being residing in earthly form, which although on a different timescale to that of the human, will gradually change and pass into ceaseless versions of itself.
Andrew Phillips is a Visual Artist, Art Psychotherapist, Creative Mentor / Life Coach, in south Wales.
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