Work in Progress. Water #3 - Fiskars Village

Adam creates series of minimal, abstract sculpture inspired by organic forms, created from natural materials. Each series seeks to design, test and evaluate a visual language. Each language may have been forming for tens of years or maybe a snapshot of a contemporary idea.

Each piece implements the principles of these languages with slight variations on the same theme. Theoretically, each piece is a development of the last. The variations are the languages’ evolution.

Ultimately it is Adam’s desire to try to give tangible, tactile manifestations of the images and stories in his mind’s eye. The final forms are made through the filters of his technical skills, the limitations of the material and the tools that are available.

“The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away” - Marc Chagall

While it is not always conventional nor possible in a gallery setting, touching the pieces is encouraged to enable additional sensory stimulus for the audience which hopes to re-affirm the connection between the viewer, the piece and the environment it is placed within.

Adam seeks to use the innate beauty found in natural sustainable or salvaged materials – the grain of wood, the alabaster texture of plaster etc. - to ornament the final product.

Without using colour as an embellishment, Adam uses light as an external stimulus to create texture, detail and visual allure. The negative space is as valuable as the positive space. The shadows are as valuable as the highlights. Their dance is what creates the truest beauty. The use of natural light further heighten the ability for one piece to have many manifestations. As the light changes so does the piece itself thus adding a strong value to the pieces’ surroundings.

Simplicity in Motion Series

Imagine how, as a child, you marvel at the trail left behind a firework as it arcs across the sky - a simple, mono-plane, organic curved line moving through space and time. Perfect. Taking inspiration directly from Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, the Simplicity in Motion Series seeks to symbolise the forms created, by an object, moving from one point to another.

English Rose Abstraction Series

Through the process of abstraction one often sees the details of an object. Through the process of observing an abstract form, we can find ourselves relaxing in its simplicity.

The English Rose Abstraction Series was born from a play between trompe l’oeil and minimalist view of a rose in bloom. Petals, breeze, angles, shapes, lines and shadow in the round.

The ridges between the half-round marks create the implication of the rose petals’ edge while the voids between aim to highlight the negative space between the petals.

Wall Carving Series

If one were to stare in soft focus as light dapples through the trees, we would smell the warmth of summer and feel the breeze dancing around our fingers.

The Wall Carving Series seeks to emulate natural patterns found throughout nature: sunflower seeds, basalt rock formations humans in mass transit. Inside the repetitious marks made, the maker seeks to work in collaboration with the natural forms found in wood, thus accentuating the natural grain, fibres and features alongside the artist-made marks.