James Burbidge is a contemporary British artist based in Surrey and Wiltshire, England

 

N A T U R E

The scientific drawings of Santiago Ramon Y Cajal, both beautifully and precisely depict neuronal structures in the brain and became the inspirational starting point for this project. Lead sheet is meticulously and methodically carved and rolled, inviting emergent complexity across time, using rhythm, pattern, repetition and chance as guiding principles along an intuitive path that greets the proximity of nature.