Statement by Artist Jon Hammer

My earliest memory is of rubbing my eyes and seeing the coloured patterns I could generate.

My senses had awoken to the patterning that has characterised sacred art since the dawn of time. Much of my life has been spent investigating these underlying dynamics in nature and mind.

I found that they reverberate through all life, from molecule to universe and in both sight and sound.

Through experimentation and contemplation I taught myself to paint, calculating how to conjure archetypes from the depths of mind using symbols, colour and form.

Our ancestral societies reverently engineered such 'doorways' to that 'other-world'. These served a cathartic purpose and enriched the spiritual wellbeing of the tribe.

My paintings are finely tuned to channel specific information and elicit particular states, using a wide range of meticulous techniques to engineer accurate depiction.

Their content needs no definition or explanation to many, who share the intuitive resonance that unlocks them from their suspended animation.

In this sneeringly cynical age of information overload, what transcendence can remain in expression but in a revival of this archaic intuition?

Expression of this intuition in these times cannot fail to plunder and parody that which it finds, leaving in its wake, mystic gems for the western snack palate and beyond...