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Pilgrimage to Nature

Throughout history Art movements have in various ways expressed the relationship of Human Society with that

of the surrounding Nature or from a wider perspective humankind and the Universe-Cosmos.
In France it was the Schools at Barbizon the Fontainebleau that were the preamble to French Impressionism.

Impressionism was all about capturing the moment, the awareness of the transient state of the world and living.

Fundamentally as an Impressionist painter, I find that using the modes of Post Impressionism, symbolism, surrealism and my own
creative mode ‘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 through the advances of science.

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.

‘The Art of Living’ is a way of embracing a wide spectrum of expression and through the title ‘Pilgrimage to Nature’.
Elemental form alludes to the elemental level of the universe ; the appearance of which is actualization of the quantum field of energy
wave forms existing beyond our perceived sense of measured time and formed matter.

This fundamentally changes the understanding of the Universe, science has discovered greater depts of creative Intelligence, structural
order and complexity where all is interconnected as one .

Beauty is the sense of nature from a theological perspective the outward manifestation of Divine nature and creativity, that is perceived
in each of us as a mirroring to the Divine through 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; basically, to places of spiritual significance and importance. Places or sites that symbolise the actualization through Emanation
of the Divine Being in the Cosmos . The Divine presence that humanity in the main seeks, a deep routed knowing of something

Greater, a Divine all encompassing consciousness.

Pilgrimage to Nature, invites the perception that Nature in its totality is the Divine disclosure , the Cosmos born out of the ground of
Divine Being the timeless formless state. Humanity, is inextricably part and formed out of Mother Earth, it is a symbiotic relationship.