This painting practice started out as meditative mark making after an acupuncture session, which seemed to unlock something lost since I was a teenager studying art as an A-level.  It has become a lovely, and developing part of life and I've discovered a love for colour and light, and the form of the Circle.  

Leon Hammer in his book 'Dragon Rises, Red bird flies' writes about the connections between Chinese Medicine and Psychology, and this is what he has to say about the Cirlcle, reflected in the Qi Ball - the life force - and Dantiens.

'The 'force' in its primordial form was considered to be pure potential, symbolised by a single point.  This point of potentiality evolves into a completed circle.  The entire circle symbolises the forces fundamental character of unity (harmony), continuity (no beginning, no end), strength and dynamic fluidity, centeredness, intuition, expansion and contraction.  There is no more powerful or universal symbol than the circle, which seems always to have meant the totality and essence of life, the self, the cosmos.  To the extent that Chinese Medicine is a blend of intuition and deductive reasoning, and because it can embrace paradox, it is itself thought of as being round.'