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Made with 3mm perspex and prismatic thread. When I began my career as an artist, I was a sculptor; my influences included Barbara Hepworth, Naum Gabo and Henry Moore. I’ve always thought my harmonograms would be an ideal starting point for three-dimensional work, as they have a sculptural aesthetic even in two dimensions. In my…

Some advice on framing and presentation. How a piece of artwork is framed greatly affects your perception of the work itself: putting a beautiful piece of work in a shoddily made or mismatched frame would detract from the work’s inherent quality. Over the years I’ve framed my harmonograms in various ways, some examples of which…

Prints 1993-1996 This gallery is a selection of my printmaking work from Wimbledon School of Art, where I completed a Master’s Degree in Fine Art in 1996. This is also where I built my Twin-Elliptic Harmonograph. I often used my harmonograms as a starting point for my prints: I put them onto silk screens, lithograph…

Acrylic, gouache, ink. I made this triptych over several years from 2005 onwards. It’s hand-painted/drawn and the middle piece (the Golden Circle) measures 51.6 x 84cm. The Golden Circle Triptych This triptych is an artistic expression of the beauty and elegance of three mathematical formulae which have shaped our technologies and which surround us in…

I went to Sharkfin Media, who’ve done such a great job of designing this website, not only because of their expertise in creating stunning websites but also because of their expertise in fine art reproduction. Their knowledge of photographing and printing artwork to the highest standard is exemplary: rest assured that a reproduction of one…

Gravity: the mother of all supercomputers. I’ve often been asked, by people who weren’t familiar with my techniques, what computer software I’d used to produce my harmonograms: they’d assumed that they were digital pieces. The truth is that the precision, beauty and complexity of a harmonogram are the product of nothing other than gravity. To…