Jake Brookes

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“Fragments of the Spirit”


	“I hope that you enjoy my works and they inspire your journey in this beautifully profound life. Peace.” Jacob (Jake) Brookes.

Jake Brookes is a resident Artist, Musician, Writer and Actor at Glenelg Art Gallery, South Australia

The majority of these works were created in his residency at Clifton Pugh's artists retreat called Dunmoochin, located one hour from Melbourne in Cottles Bridge. Free Expressionism was the theme under which these artworks were created and they represent the symbolic melding of dreaming and waking consciousness.

It was an unique opportunity to create in one of Australia’s most successful artists houses and to work alongside some incredible international artists who had also been accepted by the Dunmoochin Foundation to do Residences’ in the local artist community.

This experience with Dunmoochin was highly influential in his artistic development, appreciation for the Arts and connected him to some profound circles of internationally renowned and emerging artists from around the world.

His artistic journey began as a classically trained violinist from the age of six. And this appreciation for music is reflected in the Art that he creates today. Painting, sculpting, writing, composing music and acting are all part of the one magic circle that governs his artistic journey. These artworks, he is now offering as Limited Edition prints, so that their stories may be appreciated by the larger community. All works were created in forest and rural environments and he is excited to have these works on display in Adelaide for the first time.

Any queries regarding any of the artworks please contact the Glenelg Art Gallery for further information.

Many of the artworks from the ‘Fragments of the Spirit’ series are also featured in the artwork of the solo album that he is currently working on in Adelaide entitled “Songbook”. The songs off his first solo album entitled “Rara Avis”, recorded in Canberra by the renowned engineer, composer, musician, artist and producer Harvey Welsh; are currently available as free downloads to your play list at www.myspace.com/jb99973 for a short time only. Several of the Artworks from ‘Fragments of the Spirit’ accompany the songs on this site.

‘I believe in these paintings as they are fragments of my spirit. They communicate things that my words cannot. I hope that you enjoy my works and they inspire your journey. For on a journey we go and flow… As the miles pass we start to know Peace.’

Jake Brookes 2010, Glenelg.

horizonine@hotmail.com for direct communication.

glenelgartgallery@bigpond.com.au for purchase of Prints both framed and unframed with sizes made to order, please contact Rowena Brown.
Copies of his first solo album “Rara Avis” will also be available for purchase from The Little Shop, Glenelg Art Gallery and various other locations.


	All prints approx. 40 x 29 cm (A3) depending on original size. Rare limited edition prints of Jake Brookes first collection. Can be sent to you unframed sent in Australia Post tube. Prices from $250 AUD

ANGEL GUIDE

Oil on Canvas, created in Ferny Creek. The painting is a representation of the female spirit released and flying free. With her multicolored wings she flies forth with the dawning of a new age.

TRIBAL QUEEN

Oil on Canvas, created at Dunmoochin. This painting represents a
warrior Queen connected to an American Indian tribe.
She is a Sharman and a seer and she is a highly protective spirit.

TOUCHED

Oil Mono-Print on Copper Plate, Printed onto Watercolor Paper. This mono-print is based on the concept that we are never alone. There are always forces that are there to help us through life’s challenges. To sooth and protect us in our journey through life.

NIGHT DANCER

Oil Mono-print enhanced with Black Ink on Paper. The female spirit that is central within this piece symbolizes the free expression of a women naked and unrestricted as she dances in Mother Nature in the night.
Part of the Dunmoochin series.

OTHER SOUL

Oil on Masonite and a significant part of the Dunmoochin series. This painting is a representation of the female side that often lies dormant within the male consciousness. She awaits recognition, love and respect.

VISION

Acrylic on Masonite. Another work from the Dunmoochin series. It represents the presence of the higher spirit and consciousness in a time of need. The melting of solidity giving way to different dimensions of thinking.

THE OLD DUNMOOCHIN

Oil on Masonite. This painting is one of the most significant of the Dunmoochin series. It is one of the main rooms in Clifton Pugh’s house where I felt his presence the strongest. After talking with various people associated with foundation, I learnt that where I have painted Clifton’s spirit at the top of the stairs was where he had his last fatal heart attack.

SPIRIT TREE

Oil on Paper Mono-Print from Copper Plate. Spirit tree represents the mysterious and beautiful life-giving power of Mother Nature. Dunmoochin series.

SELF PORTRAIT

Oil on Canvas, created in North Fitzroy. Self Portrait that represents the myriad of emotions that so often swirl through our maturing lives as we endeavor to unfold our artistic potential.

MANTRA

Pencil, Acrylic and Black Ink on Watercolor Paper. Mantra is very much a representation of the awakening of transcendental levels of consciousness through breath-work, meditation and creative visualisation. Created in North Fitzroy.

REACHING

Oil and Black Ink on Watercolor Paper. This Goddess reaches forth with illuminosity and delicate fluidity, beyond the multicolored abstraction of her surroundings. Part of the Dunmoochin series.


		SHARMAN DREAMING Acrylic and Ink Mono-Print on Paper. The figure in this piece appeared once the paint started to flow on the copper plate. It had a Shamanistic/spirit-like quality that I enhanced with black ink to bring the image forth.

	PANDORA Acrylic on Canvas, created in my residency at Ferny Creek, Mt Dandenong, Victoria. This was one of the first paintings of the Fragments of the Spirit series and it represents an opening of abstract perception.

SOULFULL

Acrylic on Watercolor Paper. This painting represents the unlocking of the human spirit and was created in Ferny Creek whilst I was working on my artistic pursuits. It was inspired by the beautiful forests and the natural environment of the Dandenong Ranges.

PRESENCE

Oil and Ink Mono-Print on Paper. This print is a representation of my father’s spirit as he emerges from one world into another.


	Acrylic and Ink on Watercolor Paper. Imbedded in this work is the word Eternity, along with a coded language that speaks of the ancient wisdom that flows through eternity awaiting multitudinous manifestations in various times and forms. Part of the Dunmoochin series.


	THE DRUNKEN FOOL Acrylic on Canvas. The Drunken Fool represents the delusion of human consciousness under the full effects of alcohol. The beautiful colors of his life blur and the façade, of which he has subscribed to, holds nothing but illusion and inebriated promiscuity.

		ASTRAL DREAMS Acrylic on Paper. Another painting in the Dunmoochin series represents the fluidity of the creative essence that is constantly moving and evolving, reshaping and remaking itself.

FACE IN TRAIN WINDOW

Oil, Sand, Metal Filings and Gel Medium on Canvas. Face in A Train Window represents those little glimpses that we so often get of one another in the modern society in which we live. A glimpse of another story. A glimpse of another life.

DANCER

Chalk on Watercolor Paper. Represents the joy and energy of a dancer in mid flight as she celebrates the music.


	ALL SEEING EYE Oil on Canvas, created in the time that I was studying Art and Design at Epping TAFE, Victoria. It represents the electric creative inner worlds through which the river of life flows. Surrounding the eye are birds and spirits that are symbolic of the multifaceted construct of the human condition.

	EPIPHANY Acrylic on Canvas. This art work represents the harmonized potential that we have as people. A balance of energy, vibration and Free Expressionism.


PHOENIX RISING Ink, Pencil and Oil on Watercolor Paper. Another work that is part of the Dunmoochin series. It represents ‘light-workers’ who seek to cool the burning flames of greed, power and manipulation of the masses in modern civilization.

WANDERER Pencil on Watercolor Paper. I created this piece in the rolling fields at Dunmoochin where artists and the local community could wander around over 200 acres of conservation land. It represents the coming together of the past, the present and the future in an eternal moment never to be forgotten.

	THE SEER’S SIGHT Oil, Ink and Pencil on Watercolor Paper. Part of the Dunmoochin series that represents the break-through of Aboriginal wisdom and consciousness invoking the power of the heart, the ancient history and shamanic awareness that rises and moves on a vast desert landscape of awakening and dreaming.

		THE PREMINIOTION Raven Oil and Ink on Canvas. Another premonition painted created in the Dandenong Ranges pre-bushfire session. Two weeks later I found myself walking down a road in the forest where one side had been burnt out and the other untouched as in the painting.

			PERCEPTION PLATES Oil on Canvas, created in Essendon, Victoria prior to my departure to Europe. It is part of a series that was an exploration into the Rave culture when it first emerged in the various rural locations around Australia. The series focused upon the people who participated in these events and festivals, looking at the ways in which their ‘inner creatures’ could express themselves freely within the developing Rave culture.


	AWAKENING Acrylic and Raven Oil on Watercolor Paper. Symbolizes the flowing and migratory transitions of life. Created in Sassafras, Victoria.

		WIZARD’S JOURNEY Oil Mono-Print on Watercolor Paper. The Wizard’s consciousness has many forms by which he can travel throughout the spectrum of time. Dunmoochin series.


			SPIRIT QUEST Raven Oil and Ink on Canvas. On a journey we go and flow… As the miles pass we start to know… This painting represents a myriad of encounters whilst journeying about ethereal and creative ocean of life.

				MOVING THROUGH ABSTRACT Oil and Black Ink on Canvas. Leaping through the Worlds of the Abstract was another of the Rave series, inspired by the people involved in the dance revolution movement.

			EPHEMERAL CROSS Acrylic, Pencil, Ink and Raven Oil on Watercolor Paper. The Ephemeral Cross explores various ways in which religion has been used as a tool of persecution over the centuries. It asks the question, ‘...how many things have been crucified by various religious beliefs?’ Part of the Dunmoochin series.

		FRACTURED Mixed Mediums, framed on a collage of backing board. This piece represents the fracturing of ancient wisdom, balance and harmony by the Industrial and Consumerist factions of modern society as a whole.

		GATEWAY Oil on Masonite. Created as a Shamanistic Premonition painting. One of the larger works from the Dunmoochin series. The background was inspired by the entrance of Clifton Pugh’s magnificent double story artistically built house.

ILLUMINATION Oil on Canvas. Represents that Awakening of the higher spirit and of human consciousness in a landscape of forever shifting form.

	TRANSENDANCE Acrylic on Watercolor Paper. To me this painting can be likened to an unfolding piece of music. Created in Ferny Creek.