{"id":4592,"date":"2026-04-22T08:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elegantstargap.org\/?page_id=4592"},"modified":"2026-05-03T15:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:20:26","slug":"4592-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.elegantstargap.org\/?page_id=4592","title":{"rendered":"artist statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>STATEMENT<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MY INSPIRATION<\/strong>..<strong>&#8230;.comes from expressing joy and light in what can appear to be a very dark world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>i see my art as a cosmic calling-card, images are often received in a direct flow, which i trust also resonates with other people<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>i am drawn to pattern-making as a meditative practice and process; incorporating both ancient and invented visual languages.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>i tend to work in series of paintings, creating separate and discrete bodies of work, both sequentially and simultaneously.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>artistic expression is such a fundamental part of my human experience, without it i would be completely adrift.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>yet it so much more than a passport to holistic well-being; <\/strong>                           <strong>it is my <em>raison d&#8217;etre<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STATEMENT MY INSPIRATION..&#8230;.comes from expressing joy and light in what can appear to be a very dark world. i see my art as a cosmic calling-card, images are often received in a direct flow, which i trust also resonates with other people. i am drawn to pattern-making as a meditative practice and process; incorporating both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4592","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elegantstargap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elegantstargap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elegantstargap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elegantstargap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elegantstargap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.elegantstargap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4623,"href":"https:\/\/www.elegantstargap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4592\/revisions\/4623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elegantstargap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}