"All this world may pass away,
but love and music will survive"
Old Gaelic Proverb

   
"Visual art, music, culture, spirituality, nature, travel, religious ritual, and human response; these are the aspects of my life that inform my work. What once may have seemed separate and eclectic endeavors have, over the years, merged to inspire a holistic vision and have nurtured a rarified creative focus. The result is a process both personal and universal. Whether I am performing at a music festival, giving a cultural presentation in a school, facilitating a ritual, leading songs in a pub, cantoring in church, drawing, painting or sculpting, my goal is one of spiritual, artistic, and emotional alignment. Real artistic achievement for me comes from believing in what I'm doing, and I strive to always be more fully present in each moment of every action of the creative process, and continue to be guided by my own sense of personal revelation and resonance.

    The project Kentigern: Saint Mungo of Scotland is a culmination of everything I have done and learned. Music (Scottish traditional, folk, liturgical, classical, Gaelic, modal and rock) and art (drawing and sculptures, photos and computer images, slides and overhead projections) are the warp, and my spiritual, scholarly, cultural and intuitive patterns are the weft, creating a multidimensional fabric. The tales portrayed are ancient and timeless, the characters are vivid and fascinating, and the stories have an intrinsic healing power, crossing time, space and cultural boundaries, a balm for wounds old and new.

    To me, the best qualities of art and music are what truly fight evil. They enlighten and uplift, expose bigotry and hypocrisy, bring us back to the now, and unite the human family. Art and music's finest captured moments resonate with our own best experiences; I believe that, consciously or not; they help each one of us uniquely remember who we are and why we're here."