Robin Doherty
a kind of supernatural brilliance, reflecting an existence beyond the physical and our immediate senses
My interests with regard to my art practice are primarily related to the philosophy of metaphysics. I have always been interested in the search for an understanding of the nature of reality. This search may incorporate reason and intellect but it does not rely solely upon it, relating as much, if not more so, to a metaphysical knowledge based on direct emotional and intuitive understanding.
This work is often medative and iconic in nature although the symbolism of the work does not refer directly to allegory or sign but more so to as Jung describes 'the best possible way of describing and formulating an object that is not completely knowable'. It is this bridging of the conscious and unconscious in the search for an immediacy with that which is unknown and unknowable that is of key interest to me.
In this new series, based on the natural landscape my aim is to imbue the works with a kind of supernatural brilliance, reflecting an existence beyond the physical and our immediate senses, which transforms them into objects of veneration and infuses with a direct and immediate light that converts and transfigures said works into studies or meditations on ones corporeal and spiritual place and position.
Pictured above: This Land Is My Land © Robin Doherty