The third original design completed. I looked at images of galaxies as well as star patterns and their colours. The main circular area fuses knotwork with a double spiral. It is all about number - as we are too. Where would we be without numbers? Zero: no where!

If Lugh (the youthful god of illumination and skill) had a shield it may have looked like this. I imagine it being held before him to mesmerise Balor (his cyclopean foe) for a split second before unleashing his deadly slingshot. The knotwork is a single line but why take my word for it..?

I adapted a traditional maze pattern to create this fractured effect. At a distance it creates an interesting overall pattern. Stand back! Serpents are associated with its zig-zagged and cunning pathways. At the corners they meet, disperse, seek...

An experiment in maze patterns based on the triangle and hexagon.Traditional patterns of this type are usually derived from the square and rectangle.

I designed the border first and projected lines inwards to take the design further. Swans and ravens are threshold creatures associated with beauty, death, transformation. The pattern at the centre is an illumined maze - perhaps one of insight.

An example of a simple but effective stand-alone design. As far as I know this cross pattern is an original variation. I've knot seen it anywhere else - which is surprising... but it's also true that simple things sometimes elude us... or we miss them. There is a warmth to this design, as if we are before a window looking into a honey-flooded land...

I was looking at (staring into?) the seven-fold labyrinth pattern (found throughout the Mediterranean and Europe) when I saw a tree embedded within it. This design uses two of these labyrinths rotated...

December 2000: This was designed and sketched out over breakfast... Later it was drawn out onto a large sheet of card and outlined with a black marker pen. Eventually, I photographed it and all the colour work was done on computer.