Gallery of Art of Tony Sweeting

I have always been interested in nature, it's form, symmetry and intricacies and I have a suspicion that these forms have on influence on the psyche.  I think there is inherent knowledge in each of us of symmetry, caves, holes, shiny slime, cobwebs, mist,  wetness, velvety surfaces etc and that this comes from experiences where we were safe, that we have had during our evolution.  My idea is that there is therefore a "primal instinct" in each of us for shapes, patterns and forms and that the viewer's recognition of these originates below the normal visual surface, at the molecular level.  These works attempt to trigger the viewer's sub-conscious memory for these forms, shapes and patterns.  The marks and patterns are blown around, struck, washed, rubbed out, reapplied, like perhaps our environment is created by nature herself.