The Implicate Form is created by hand, cell by cell. The work begins with a sketch, where I visualise the contours, draw a frame in CorelDraw (now Illustrator), and then the cells are created one by one, each carefully positioned and dynamically related to the next.

For years the whole process was entirely by hand, using just fine fibre-tip pens and coloured pencils, but in 2002 I realised how Corel and PhotoShop could expand the potential for my ideas and allow me to achieve the level of detail and depth of form that I could previously only dream of.

Each image takes between 6 and 9 months to create, sometimes working at a magnification of over 20,000% to achieve a high level of accuracy and realism in the illusion of form.