Unveiling the Vault: The Genesis & Provenance of the Millennium Mythos
As an artist, showing finished oil paintings to the world is only half the story. The canvases that make up the ‘Millennium Mythos Trilogy’ didn’t appear out of thin air, they were born from years of world-building, raw emotional battles, quiet living room sketches, and late-night philosophical notes.
The genesis of the Mythos
Untitled Sketch 1, (1996). The original genesis drawing for the six-panel oil polyptych, ‘A Secret Genesis Cycle’ (1999)
I’ve been hard at work curating a brand new archival gallery section on the site: ‘Millennium Mythos: Genesis & Provenance’.
This page isn’t just a collection of pictures; it is a true, unfiltered time capsule of my creative journey at the turn of the millennium.
What You’ll Discover in the Archives:
The Everyday Reality (1999): Real-life sketches of my environment, from Burnham-on-Crouch streetscapes to my own cozy living room at Christmas, showing where the physical space met the imagination.
The Esoteric Awakening: Early juvenilia, including a subconscious 1989/90 pencil portrait drawn when I was just 15, capturing the early stirrings of the surrealist mindset long before the trilogy took form.
The Architectural Blueprints: The original genesis drawings for pieces like ’Here is my Temple’ and the epilogue ’Unfinished Millennium 2001’.
Raw Human Vulnerability: Intimate, psychological pieces like ’The Unfortunate Artist’, capturing the self-doubt, chaos, and vertigo of the creative process while surrounded by unfinished canvases on the walls.
The Written Lore: Hand-illustrated sister poems from the year 2000, along with pages from my original ’Poems & Odes’ notebook, complete with its beautifully worn, quarter-century-old patina!
The Public Unveiling: Historical third-party press coverage from the ‘Essex Chronicle’ and original guestbook comments from my 2001 exhibition at Maldon Public Library.
The Y2K Periphery: Finished millennium-era surrealist artworks like ’Alien Yin & Yang’ and ’Financial Labyrinth’ that orbited the main trilogy.
Financial Labyrinth. Pen & paper doodle drawing, (2001)
The finance to the art or the art to the finance.
A complex labyrinth capturing the balancing act between the grounded demands of everyday finances and the boundless calling of creating art.
Take a Walk Through History
Whether you are an art collector interested in provenance, a creative who knows the chaotic magic of world-building, or simply curious about how an epic trilogy comes to life, this archive was made for you.
Head over to the gallery, step back in time with me to the year 2000, and explore the roots before stepping into the final universe.