About

The Heart Is Our Compass.
We may not know the whole path.
We need only know how to orient ourselves toward what we love.

The Geometry of Souls is the third chapter, a kind of creative opus in a journey guided by what I call “The Unseen Hand”. A silent yet palpable guidance system, a divine helping hand when you need it. I wasn’t looking at three separate chapters as one whole — they were beginnings and endings and beginnings, again and again… Looking back now, however, I can see a pattern that was invisible while I was living it. What once appeared to be separate interests, projects, journeys, and experiences now reveal themselves as parts of a larger story unfolding across decades.

Born in England, raised in Australia, living for many years in California before eventually settling in Aotearoa New Zealand, I have spent much of my life following curiosity, wonder, along with what I call “the unseen hand” — those moments when life seems to gently guide us toward experiences we could never have planned for ourselves.

The first opus took me into the world through photography.

A desire for adventure, coupled with a fascination for sacred, mysterious, mythical, and legendary places, became the foundation of my work. Photography was my passport into that exploration. Ancient temples, stone circles, cathedrals, sacred landscapes, and the stories woven through them became both subject and teacher.

I followed my excitement, my passion, my bliss. Even when I found myself standing at the edge of a precipice, I trusted. And each and every time — without fail — I was met. Never a moment too early, nor a moment too late. Over the years, it occurred to me that perhaps those periods of uncertainty, those moments when I couldn’t see how things might unfold, were part of the design itself. They invited me to step beyond fear and into faith. Again and again, life revealed a quiet benevolence, an unseen hand waiting just beyond the horizon of my understanding. It was a breathtaking thing to discover — and then to experience — that I was never walking alone.

In 1991, I was invited to join a team of documentarians and scientists exploring new geological perspectives on the age of the Great Sphinx of Giza alongside author and researcher John Anthony West. The resulting documentary, Mystery of the Sphinx, became an Emmy Award-winning production and a significant moment in my own journey. What began as a single project opened a doorway into years of exploration and documentation of sacred and ancient places throughout Egypt, Great Britain, Mexico, Peru, China, and beyond.

Along the way, my photographic work found homes in museum collections, publications, galleries, and private collections around the world. I lectured on architecture, culture, and sacred places, collaborated with organisations devoted to architecture and design, and spent countless hours wandering around ancient sites before dawn, camera in hand, often alone in places that seemed to exist outside of time.
Yet, looking back, I realise I was never simply photographing places.

I was searching for patterns. I was gathering data.

The second opus emerged after my move to Aotearoa New Zealand.

In 2014, I founded Down In Edin Magazine, an online arts, culture, and lifestyle journal inspired by the remarkable people and places of Dunedin and Otago. Created as a not-for-profit publication, it sought to celebrate creativity, community, love of place, and thoughtful living.

At a time when much media seemed to be accelerating toward shorter attention spans and faster consumption, Down In Edin chose a different path. It became a visual feast and a place for deeper conversations — an oasis dedicated to the creative journey and the human stories that connect us.

Through masses of interviews, articles, and visual stories, I discovered that whether I was documenting artists, gardeners, musicians, environmental advocates, or community builders, I was still exploring the same underlying question:

What connects us? What makes us tick? How do we get to be who we are…

The third opus, The Geometry of Souls, arises from that question.

Cathedrals, stone circles, temples, pyramids, ancient observatories, indigenous wisdom traditions, and even the patterns found throughout nature all seemed to point toward something fundamental.
Geometry. Mathematics. Pattern. Relationship.

Over time, what began as curiosity evolved into a deeper exploration of sacred geometry, consciousness, ancient wisdom traditions, astronomy, symbolism, and the possibility that the universe itself may communicate through pattern.

Recently, I asked myself a simple question: What common design patterns are shared by Māori and Celtic cultures?

I began life in the Northern Hemisphere, grounded in my Celtic ancestry, and eventually found myself in the Southern Hemisphere, carrying that same curiosity with me. Along the way, I had often noticed intriguing similarities in the patterns, symbolism, and artistic expressions of not only Máori and Celtic cultures, anchored at either ends of the Earth, but many other civilizations as well.

The question awakened an older memory.

When I first began documenting ancient and sacred places around the world, I became fascinated by the threads that seemed to connect them all: pattern, architecture, geometry, mathematics, astronomy, and our enduring relationship with the cosmos. I dreamed of incorporating sacred geometric patterns into my fine art photography, creating images that could reveal something of the unseen structures I felt within these places.

At the time, however, I was working in an analogue world. I lacked the tools, the technical knowledge, and the resources needed to follow those threads very far. The vision remained with me, quietly waiting.

Decades later, that seemingly simple question about Māori and Celtic design opened a doorway. What began as curiosity quickly unfolded into something much larger. New tools had arrived. Artificial intelligence made it possible to explore patterns, relationships, and visual expressions that had once existed only in my imagination. A vision that had been waiting patiently for many years suddenly found fertile ground in which to grow.

The Geometry of Souls is not an academic or scientific text, nor does it seek to convince anyone of a particular worldview. It’s simply a shared exploration. It’s a gift, a thank you to those beautiful souls who supported me and the work I produced over the decades, and a gift to anyone who opens this story or website. It’s more a lived experience; observation, contemplation, creativity, wonder, and a lifelong fascination with the visible and invisible patterns that shape our lives. It is a curiosity of mine, and I wish to share the beauty of it all with anyone who might find some resonance within these digital pages.

The Geometry of Souls asks very little of the reader. Only that they look — at the geometry, the ancient places, the natural world, the stories humanity has carried across generations, and the patterns woven throughout existence. And perhaps, in doing so, remember something that has always been known, but previously buried within our sub or unconscious selves.

We’re only at the tip of the iceberg!