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The Eight-Fold Year and The Four Elements.
The 250 paintings from The Eight-Fold Year are viewable by index here, or as a Flash continuous slideshow (Flash plugin required). The photographs taken by Maria Hughes & Jamie Reid in conjunction with the Eight-Fold Year paintings are displayed alongside the currently completed artwork in this dual slide show The paintings from The Four Elements can be found here.
The Eight Fold Year
The Four Elements
These themes have run throughout Reid's works since the early 1990's, the
results of which can be seen in the Strongroom Studios (London), his works
for the Afro Celt Sound System (Real World records), and in the many large and
small canvases he continues to produce.
The images represent a personal journey in a shamanic sense, in that they explore the living world through dis-memberment, and re-assembly. Themes that resonate and echo those of William Blake, amongst others; life looked at from the cellular or organic level, to the universal and spiritual heights. Themes that have occupied the human state for literally, thousands of years.
Most of the images are both time, and location specific. They range from the
geometry of flowers, stars, trees and mountains, to motifs of primal
expression. Further reading : The Eight-Fold Year and The Four Elements.
The Celtic Tradition, Caitlín Mathews (pub. Element) Further reading : Shamanism.
The Death And Resurrection Show, Dr.Rogan Taylor (pub.Blond) |
This massive body of works represents a five year (and to date, ongoing)
exploration of the Eight Fold Year, and the Four Elements, through
paintings, drawings, and photographs taken by Jamie and his wife Maria,
on their many journeys throughout the British
Isles and beyond, undertaken at various key times of year.
