Artist
SYNERGY
About Pertha
Our father was a fascinating man. He travelled the world, living in Egypt, Palestine, Algeria and Morocco but always gravitated back to England.
He wrote passionately for fifty years, twenty of those in a tiny cottage in Sussex surrounded by woods with no road to it, no electricity and running water. By choice, I will add. I can still hear the thump of the typewriter above our bedrooms in the early morning, and remember the groups of people who came to listen to the stories of his travels. They were always magical to us.
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He began writing the novel ' The Secrets of the Seven Wardrobes' in this tiny cottage in the heart of Sussex over forty five years ago, and it remained unfinished this entire time. I turn the sepia pages in my hand as I read.​
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Having worked on this book for the last three years and with a great editor Kim Kimber it was finally released on Amazon. A tale that will take you to the edges of the earth.​ Book two, already two thirds written, is set to come out later this year.
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Pertha the Sphere of Light was created from a light projection system that I've invented and worked on for many years. It is also in the tale of the Seventh Wardrobe. I have brought Pertha into the real world. It is an evolving entity growing over time.
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Pertha first arrived in 800 AD. Since then, its appearances have remained rare, fragmented, and shrouded in mystery. It exists as both entity and phenomenon: fictional yet translated into a physical experience. Its story continues to unfold, with its full explanation intentionally remaining hidden as the mythology evolves.
​Experiencing Pertha
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Pertha is an encounter with presence. The vast luminous sphere appears less like an object created by human hands and more like a phenomenon discovered. Something ancient, conscious, and quietly waiting.
At the centre of the contemporary experience is a vast evolving sphere of light radiating shifting waves and rays through darkness. As music sours and architecture dissolves into fields of light, the surrounding environment transforms into an immersive atmosphere of emotion, scale, and perception. Light within Pertha behaves almost like a living material, breathing, expanding, and receding with an organic rhythm that reshapes space itself. Creating the sensation of stepping outside ordinary reality into somewhere liminal, dreamlike, and transcendent.
Pertha draws audiences towards it. In its presence viewers often become still and reflective, as though crossing a threshold between external space and inner perception. Audiences do not simply observe the work; they feel themselves inside its field. Pertha has only appeared publicly a handful of times including during Brighton Fringe, where audiences described the experience as awe inspiring, powerful, and deeply affecting. More than 600 people have now entered the sphere’s atmosphere.
What distinguishes Pertha from many contemporary immersive installations is its pursuit of stillness within the self as much as spectacle. While visually vast and powerful it invites awe, reflection, and imagination. A temporary suspension from the noise and fragmentation of ordinary life.
The power of Pertha lies partly in ambiguity. It refuses a fixed identity. To some it appears celestial. To others it feels spiritual, technological, or strangely alive. This uncertainty is central to the experience.The sphere intentionally leaves space for interpretation allowing viewers to project their own beliefs, memories, emotions, and subconscious associations into its presence.In this way every viewer encounters a different Pertha.
The sphere itself carries universal symbolic power. Across cultures and throughout history luminous spheres have represented consciousness, eternity, celestial order, divinity, and the origins of life itself. Pertha unconsciously draws upon these archetypes creating a primal emotional response before intellectual interpretation can occur.
Rather than offering answers, it invites reflection upon existence, perception, time, and the hidden structures that may lie beneath reality.
This tension between the known and the unknowable continues throughout the immersive experience. The encounter can feel simultaneously ancient and futuristic at the same time. Pertha opens a space where viewers may confront wonder itself. The feeling of standing before something vast, radiant, and only partially understood, as though touching the edge of another world.
In this way Pertha exists simultaneously as mythology, philosophical inquiry, immersive artwork, and evolving narrative entity; exploring not only what humanity sees when confronted with the unknown, but also what humanity chooses to believe.​