Installations

The work that is on view on this page is the result of visual experiments following an awareness of urges to express and create. There is no thinking or rational interpretation of the images and methods as they are used, they are presented in the medium, style , and imagery as it arises. They are not meant as finished pieces in themselves, but rather as part of an overall process of creating. However, some of the work is available to purchase - please contact Jonathan hayter

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‘From Chaos’ J P Hayter©2005 -mixed media. In my work as a shadow puppeteer - I have developed ways of accesing creativity - one uses spontaneaous drawing - in devising and creating ideas for characters - here I have applied the technique of cutting shadows from card in an immediate way to create shapes which when used to form a design, or laid out in a random way display a powerful primal message from the unconcious

‘Putrifaction’ J P Hayter©2005 - mixed media - This image came about as a result of the ‘Moontime’ performance project- combining the ‘cut out’ technique as displayed in ‘From Chaos’ - the composition then becomes the basis for a painted composition

‘Entity’ J P Hayter©2005 - mixed media - This image came after working on ‘Moontime’ - still with the experiences of the live work - and might be a reference to the ghost I have experienced in my studio? An ‘Astral form’ - it expresses the experiments with form experienced from the ‘cut out’ technique moving it a stage further into creating painted 3d forms..

‘Well Being’ J P Hayter©2005 - mixed media - Experiments with form and paint - beginning with the rich primal source of creativity - there dwells at the bottom of the well - the ‘Well Being’ - primal self...

‘Divine Mother’ J P Hayter©2005 - mixed media - This had the curious feel of much of my work on the ‘Divine Mother’ - I experimented with it as a video set - it has the feel of as Greek Orthodox Icon to me.

‘Shadow’ J P Hayter©2005 -mixed media- In Frazers ‘Golden Bough’ I was reading about how the shadow possess a life of its own- it being a manifestation of the soul among some peoples of some cultures...

Figure of speech Installations

In my work as a visual artist I have wanted to explore combining the best of performance film and projection into a format that is suitable for Static art display. Installations allow the best of the live work in an interesting arrangement that can be viewed even when the artist is not present...
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2. ‘Archetype Sculpture’ - I wanted to see what would happen when my ‘archetype cards’ where used in 3D space and not just used to create 2D forms - I like the play and juxtaposition of space, negative space and shape. ©j. hayter 2007

3. ‘Mask’ - I have been using wooden forms and and card forms in a structural way - and was interested in using the shamanic practice of ‘scrying’ as the inspiration for this - staring in a darkened room for long periods of time at your own reflection to see what hideous forms emerge from the ether - scary stuff!!. ©j. hayter 2007

4. ‘Red Pillar’ - As part of an inspired interpretation for a link between worlds the story my wife told me from childhood about stumbling across a tall obelisk in the middle of the welsh countryside stretching between heaven and earth. The Olmec Indians believed Volcanoes were entrances to the underworld - a similar inspiration sort of inspired this idea of the pillar. ©j. hayter 2007

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