A Picture Of The Soul Mask

At least three renderings of the same image were created to try to extract various senses of energy and experiences that inspired the creation of the masks themselves.

These images were not so much conceived as allowed to become themselves in a process that touches the deeper regions of feelings.


The process of feeling itself forms the colours and the marks by instinct. The creative technique lies in form of abeyance half abandoned partly watching. All of the wooden masks were made like this too.


They had to "become themselves" out of the unconscious reservoirs of feelings. In creating the masks I felt I was creating faces of the spirit of all of us who had been in the Highcroft Hospital or the Workhouse that it had once been before 1948 and the begining of the N.H.S.