"Three years ago in Paris I got out of a 'metro' train at La Concorde, and saw suddenly a beautiful face, and then another and another, and then a beautiful child’s face, and then another beautiful woman, and I tried all that day to find the words for what this had meant to me, and I could not find any words that seemed to me worthy, or as lovely as that sudden emotion...but there came an equation...not in speech but in splotches of colour...a 'pattern'...It was a word, the beginning for me, of a language of colour".

Ezra Pound.

   My work draws its core inspiration from the early Twentieth Century British art movement known as Vorticism.

   Within this movement I found a classification of art and everyday life which made sense to me; all creative form being a vivid exploration into the most primary projection of what is possible or as Pound suggests, "to convey an emotion by means of an arrangement of shapes, or planes, or colours".

   It is my goal to deconstruct common everyday interactions between groups of individuals until the emotions and conversations pouring forth are represented by striking, definite lines made even bolder by the implementation of the most vivid colours and the purest pigments.

Thomas W. Dowdeswell