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Pilgrimage to Nature

This special collection entitled ‘The Pilgrimage to Nature’ has come about through reading and researching many authors writings on
the subjects of Philosophy, Theology and Science. I feel this exploration and experience to be foundational to my perception,

perspective and my approach to painting.

Throughout history, art movements have in various ways expressed the relationship of human society and its surrounding nature, or from
a wider perspective - humankind and the universe.
In France, the Schools at Barbizon and Fontainebleau were the preamble to French Impressionism.
Impressionism was all about capturing the moment and the awareness of the transient state of the world, light and life.
Fundamentallyas an Impressionist painter, I find that using the modes of Post Impressionism, Symbolism, Surrealism and my own
creative mode named ‘Alter Realism’ are means of venturing into philosophical and theological aesthetic considerations for
compositional narratives.
The changes to our sense and understanding of the world has been considerable, due to the advances of science.
This applies particularly in the fields of quantum physics and associated disciplines of chemistry and biology, with consequential
implications to theology and philosophy and their respective paradigms of understanding. This necessitates a new and all inclusive
portrayal of the world and hence, aesthetic language.

Elemental form alludes to the elemental level of the universe ; the appearance of which is actualization of the quantum field of energy
wave forms which exist beyond our perceived sense of measured time and formed matter.
This changes the understanding of the universe as science has discovered greater depths of creative intelligence, structural order and
complexity where all is interconnected as one .

Beauty is the sense of nature from a theological perspective as being the outward manifestation of Divine Nature and creativity that is
perceived in each of us as a mirroring to the Divine, illuminating the Divinity, that is our essential nature.
It may seem a strange title for a collection of work. So often we hear of pilgrimage or travel to say Mecca, Jerusalem, Rome or
Lourdes; based on places of spiritual significance and importance. Such places or sites that symbolise the actualization through
Emanation of the Divine Being within the Cosmos .
The Divine Presence that humanity in the main seeks is a deep rooted ‘knowing’ of something greater that we originate from, in
essence, an all encompassing consciousness.

‘Pilgrimage to Nature’ invites the perception that nature in its totality is the Divine Disclosure .
The Cosmos is born out of the ground of Divine Being as a timeless and formless state.
Humanity is inextricably part of and formed from Mother Earth. This is a ‘symbiotic relationship’.