Rebecca Garrard is a Manchester-based artist whose intuitive, meditative practice explores the phenomenology of embodied intuition. A graduate in Philosophy and Italian from the University of Exeter, she is graduating this year from an MA in Painting at Manchester School of Art. Garrard’s ink paintings and charcoal drawings emerge from a state she describes as “emptiness” – a relinquishing of ego, theory, and intellectual over-determination in favour of flow, play, and felt experience.
“The artist’s world is one of free creation, and this can come only from intuitions directly and im-mediately rising from the isness of things, unhampered by senses and intellect. He creates forms and sounds out of formlessness and soundlessness. To this extent, the artist’s world coincides with Zen.”
D. T. Suzuki
