Tony Pinfold

About me:

So just what is a visionary artist you may be asking ?

For me succinctly speaking, a visionary artist is one who constantly challenges conventional perceptions, on an often tempestuous voyage of self discovery and inquiry. During periods of creative contemplation, the chatter of the egoic mind fades enough to experience a personal inner truth. This truth echoes the ancient wisdoms that our modern culture has chosen to overlook as too simplistic, or too spiritual.

What will these prints do for me?

  I often smile at this question as it is asked by an ego dominated mind that is still trapped in the false belief that the answer to life will be found in stuff or in doing. I can assure you, with great joy these photographic prints are a 100% doing free, they ‘just are’. Like many things in nature they offer nothing but a space in which to experience inner peace. As you contemplate this work your need to ‘do’ may fade and you will become once again more connected with simply being. This is the act that many call meditation. It is a time in which you are able to sense your true feelings, or what I like to call the still quiet voice (soul, spirit or god).

My philosophy

Via the creation of this work, I have come to believe that life is a drama, a dance, it is never ending and is totally non dualistic. As soon as we introduce man made dualism into the mix we are no longer living in alignment with that which ‘just is’. The Divine Matrix, of which we are all a part, favours cold no more than hot, dark no more than light, it has no concept of up or down or good or bad. It dwells only in the ‘NOW’ and therefore can not judge events as we do on past or future.

  Within us all is a deep knowing, ‘a truth’, a connection to everything and everyone (a oneness) that is often covered by layers of misinformation, over complications and negativity but most of all fear. Unless we are brave enough to look above the wall of conventional thinking and learn true compassion and gratitude we will never find the peace and love we so claim we want. I thank you for your interest in my work and hope it will inspire you as it has me. So open your heart, and silence your mind and enjoy what you discover...

In Joy, Tony

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