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OM 26 – March 26 – My thoughts only attack me Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16ins

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Self portrait for Jane – (The Act of Creation) (I am, you are Always in my heart). Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16ins

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[The self portrait with eyes closed in the clouds at the center of the painting represents the dreamer, the visionary who sees best with his physical eyes closed. From his brow (the point where the third eye is located – the source of visions) emerges a frame on which his vision will be portrayed. Everything above the frame represents the …

OM 260 – November 15 – The pressure of self-acquaintance leads to self-effacement Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16ins

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OM 87 – May 26 – Flying with my eyes Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16ins

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OM 78 – May 17 – I enter the void armed only with a paint brush Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16ins

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OM 64 – May 3 – The discipline of self disclosure Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16ins

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OM 57 – April 26 – The inner is a mirror of the outer Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16ins

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OM 24 – March 24 – Loss of self Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16ins

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OM 347 – February 10 – The infinite resolve of destiny always brings me back to my concentric centre Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16ins

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OM 185 – September 01 – Orpheus defies the gods by turning around and of course there was a painter there to record the moment Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16ins

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David Arthur-Simons is a nationality non-identified painter who has been living in New York since 1995.

David is known for his large scale (in time and space) paintings that often take years to complete and draw on his studies of Western and Eastern philosophy, personal and universal mythology, dreams, his own intuitive dance, psychological self explorations and visions of realms beyond the visible and tangible.

Since 2005 David has been working on a series of 365 paintings (one for each day of the year) that explore the inter-relationships between inner and outer states of psychological being. Though there are "earthly" elements in his paintings they are never presented in an earthly context. The imagined but not fantasy landscapes, figures and actions David paints are ideal places of peace and harmony, where symmetry and "easy" order rule and where people (all self-portraits) fly, leap and glide through the air and from one dimension to another constantly defying the accepted illusions of life.

Each day, David works on one of the 365 paintings and completes as much as possible in one day. He then returns to the same painting the following year on the same day adding and subtracting elements till the painting is "finished".

After nine years of work some of the paintings are beginning to reach a state of near completion so that the elements of the paintings are being pulled together to create a hidden anthropomorphic Gestalt self-portrait in the fabric of foreground, middle ground and background. Can you find the hidden face in the later paintings?

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365 Days Out of my Mind - Psychological Self Portraits