Heavily influenced by the art of The Southern School (China/Japan) and Bonsai which Newman learned from his father; he draws from the idea of Literati: the scrawl of the drunken monk. Wonderfully minimal scroll paintings which are deep in philosophical subtext concerning the art of living in harmony with nature. Combing elements of still life, myths of the world, strokes, scrawls and colour fields Heath describes his work as a mental map; both of his subconscious and of the greater, deeper consciousness. These ideas and the exploration of colour in Heaths work continues to drive his exploration of texture, tone, perception and depth; the arise of colour in the human eye and brain, the appreciation and discrimination of harmony and the confusion and intrigue of visual perception.
