Digital Artist

I describe my digital artwork as being created in and derived from a unique system of geometric meter. This is the meter of visual composition as opposed to the meter found in poetry although the formalising and ordering property is the same. This meter, derived from particular and distinct geometry, provides a grammar and the actual fabric of my visual language. The rudimentary beginnings of my work were developed ten years ago, principally with a compass, rule and calculator. Motifs were developed out of simple geometric relationships, these being a visual, almost diagrammatic, expression of what I found geometrically pure and wondrously correct within the geometry itself. I don't claim these early investigations have any mathematical value, nor with the very first experiments any artistic merit. Yet through years of trial and error and a stubborn belief in this method as a pivotal means of creating art I formed the foundations of the work I continue today.

A knowledge and sensitivity of the processes uses to create have always been a prerequisite of fine craftsmanship. The language of digital art and design is evolving at a tremendous pace as technology provides more and more sophisticated tools, streamlining and homing work flows and providing richer and more seductive visual possibilities. Maybe more so in the past the true craftsman may have spent his whole life getting to know his medium through and through. For the artist and designer today who uses digital tools, this is not so easy, as the fundamental building blocks we use are still being defined and created. As a consequence of this state of flux however, the spirit of innovation and the sense of a common goal has brought about an openness and willingness to share knowledge that is difficult to find in other industries. From the new tools, forms and styles we see today, apparently ever extending the horizons of the digital design domain, it will be fascinating to look back in the future and see what becomes the icons, conventions and most enduring methods of our time.

Prior to designing these frames, I felt mounting my own digital prints in conventional frames would compromised the integrity of an art and medium that essentially belongs to the 21st Century. It struck me that beyond a minimalist variation on a conventional frame there was nothing commercially available in the way of quality display solutions that would add both aesthetic and financial value to my prints.
What I feel I’ve arrived at in the Node Frame is a art frame that is as truly contemporary, versatile and as exciting as the new medium of digital print. Essentially what I have sort in the design is a counterpart to the medium which celebrates new digital print and in particular new cutting edge digital art. In essence a display system for the new art of the 21st century.