The Open Space, the featured exhibition of 2023, describes the formless dimension that precedes all form. It refers to an emptiness or void that contains all possibilities. Physicists estimate that emptiness makes up 80 percent of the universe and that 99.9 percent of the human body is empty space, while in Buddhism emptiness is the ultimate nature of reality. To be empty of independent existence is to ‘open space' inside the Zen circle of enlightenment, an instrumental practice in the creation of Lascelles latest body of work… (read more…)

Beneath the Mountain (Copy) — Beneath the mountain, a stream flows, on and on without end - Hakuin | Mixed Media on Canvas | 152cm x 122cm

Mountains I'll never see again (Copy) — Mountains I'll never see again, fade into the distance - Santoka Taneda | Mixed media on Canvas | 152cm x 152cm

The wind traverses the vast sky (Copy) — The wind traverses the vast sky, clouds emerge from the mountains, feelings of enlightenment and things of the world, are no concern at all - Jokin | Mixed Media on Canvas | 152cm x 152cm

Blue green springwater (Copy) — Blue green springwater, white moonlit mountain, quiet wisdom of the spirit, empty gaze beyond silence - Han Shan | Mixed Media on Canvas | 152cm x 152cm

Enwrapped in billows of white clouds (Copy) — Enwrapped in billows of white clouds I do not see the white clouds, absorbed in the sounds of flowing water I do not hear the flowing water | Mixed Media on Epoxy Resin on Canvas | 80cm x 150cm

Earth, mountains, rivers - hidden in this nothingness (Copy) — Earth, mountains, rivers - hidden in this nothingness, in this nothingness - earth, mountains, rivers revealed - Saisho | Mixed media and Epoxy Resin on Birch | 150cm x 120cm

This world (Copy) — This world, a fading mountain echo, void and unreal - Ryokan Taigu | Mixed Media on Canvas | 122cm x 122cm

Black Range (Copy) — Black Range | Mixed Media and Epoxy Resin on Birch | 100 x 100cm

I stroll along the stream up to where it ends (Copy) — I stroll along the stream up to where it ends, I sit down watching the clouds as they begin to rise - Wang Wei | Mixed Media on Canvas, 152cm x 80cm

No one passes by (Copy) — No one passes by, the only ones who visit, are the drifting clouds - Han Shan | Mixed Media and Epoxy Resin on Birch | 120cm x 120cm

The first mists - (Copy) — The first mists - One mountain after another unveiled - Chiyo-ni | Mixed Media and Epoxy Resin on Birch | 80cm x 150cm

Here and now (Copy) — Here and now, in the void, the meaning - Taisen Deshimaru | Mixed media and Epoxy Resin on Birch | 150cm x 120cm

Solivagant - To Wander Alone (Copy) — Solivagant - To Wander Alone | Mixed Media on Canvas | 101cm x 101cm

But do not ask me where I am going, (Copy) — But do not ask me where I am going, as I travel this limitless world, where every step I take is my home - Basho | Mixed Media and Epoxy Resin on Canvas | 100cm x 100cm

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