I am an Ecuadorean/Scottish creative director, artist & explorer based in Scotland. I am the founder of Tayos, an organisation supporting the protection of endangered habitats in Ecuador as well as exploring our relationship to nature and its role in our wellbeing through art, music & science. Tayos was inspired and ignited by the work of my late father Stan Hall who sought to uncover the lost history of the Americas and the Tayos treasure legend.

ART

My artworks are inspired by my love of nature, music, the elemental and spiritual worlds. All works are designed to be dreamscapes, meditations and expressions of my fascination with the luminous, liminal, emergent and evolving qualities of consciousness, including the realms of spirit and the subconscious. I use a combination of watercolour and posca pens in my work.

NATURE

I have a deep love and connection to the wild landscapes of my home country of Ecuador which I explored for many years following my father’s footsteps into the Tayos Treasure Legend. The forests, caves and jungles I befriended became my biggest teachers and their spirit informs everything I do, hence my passion for their protection. My paintings seek to express the connection between our human perception meeting the spirit of a place.

CONSCIOUSNESS

When I embarked on an outer quest after my father’s death in 2008, I quickly entered an inner quest. This developed into an interest with any field that seeks to understand dimensions of the mind. For 13 years I have studied the fields of meditation, mindfulness, shamanic and energy medicine practices, psychedelics, plant medicines, neuroscience and psychology. This research is embodied into all my work and continues to inform it.

AS FEATURED IN :

Jon Hopkins

MUSIC FOR PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY

Below are the works featured in the new Jon Hopkins album release November 2021 “Music for Psychedelic Therapy” - sign up to my newsletter below to be sent news on upcoming events related to the release.

Listen to the album here: https://open.spotify.com/album/2zY5p176SfmupXceLKT6bH?si=G8M1LjGDRqu8MSjiVbIZpg