AVAILABLE WORK:

Portrait 2. Acrylics on Canvas. 71x71cm

Portrait 1. Acrylics on Canvas. 91x76cm

Sleepers 4. Oils on Paper. 42x59cm

Ruby 1. Acrylic on Board. 60x60cm

The Golden Braid. Acrylic on Board. 40x40cm

Sleepers 3. Acrylic on canvas. 91x121cm. SOLD

Sleepers 2. Acrylic on canvas. 51x76cm

Sleepers 1. Acrylic on Paper. 42x59cm. SOLD

Dark Figures. Acrylic on Canvas. 56x38cm

ABOUT

The Artist

My work has always been highly experimental—an ongoing search for whatever it is that I ​haven’t seen or made yet. I have dedicated every minute of every day for almost a decade, to my ​creative work. Part obsession, part addiction.

In the moments that I couldn’t physically make, it was a mental puzzle, an emotional search, ​always putting the pieces together. The process hasn’t been comfortable or enjoyable for the ​most part. While there have been extreme ecstasies, I have been riddled with anxieties and ​haunted by question marks, sacrificing my peace in search of my soul. This is my path.

It has been an ongoing quest to create what I haven’t created before, new lines, new shapes, ​new color, new media, new experiences.

I think this is a legitimate way of going about the creative journey. I believe that this is the only ​way that anything new or great will ever be made, by those who reach out into the unknown to ​try to make sense of it.

While I can vouch for this path, in the context of a creative career, it does have its shortfalls.

It lacks identity.

If everything is new, or short runs of designs, then nothing fits, there is no coherence. So while ​the search for soul is a worthy and necessary one, it is not an easy one, and it won’t build a ​career in the art world.

Even with my die-hard dedication to my art and craft, the idea of being an artist has never really ​settled in for me. I have never been satisfied with what I was making or saying. Arguably, there ​was no me in it. Nothing consistent. Often appealing, often deep, at times wondrous, but ​nothing consistently recognizable. No artist.

Then, one day, at the age of 37, in the midst of a personal catastrophe, all the pieces, all the ​lessons, all the values, they were shaken up violently, floating in the air.

Over the next few days, breathing through the confusion, it all began to slowly settle again. The ​bones of who I am, began to form.

Through a revelatory process, I was being shown the threads of who I have been. I was ​beginning to see what made me, me, which would then give way to my highest values.

Over the next few weeks, it was affirmation after affirmation. Understanding gave way to ​certainty, a rare commodity. Over all these years, I had been chiseling away at a definition for ​myself. I had searched through the entire maze. I had explored every corner. Now my soul was ​ready to know peace. For the first time ever, I knew exactly what I had to do. 1000 Faces was ​born.

The Message

If it is important to define what is important in this life, then ‘Knowing Myself’ would be the ​highest aspiration for me. Not that there is some ending or answer, but as an intention and ​direction, this is my journey, this is my reason.

Every step I take towards this ideal has brought me more joy, more peace, love, contentment, ​and essentially more of everything good. Therefore I believe it is something worth sharing with ​the world through my work.

Simon Gower

simonpgower@gmail.com

PREVIOUS WORK:

(not part of 1000 FACES)

ABSTRACT

ASCII ART

(Art made of text)

FIGURATIVE

DRAWINGS

LAND/SEA/SKYSCAPE

PATTERN WORK

PORTRAIT

THE LOVE CULT

THE LAND OF ZZZZ

GET IN TOUCH!

simonpgower@gmail.com