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‘The Art of Living’ is a response to living through artistic expression.

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 the Universe-Cosmos.

Impressionism was also influenced by the work of the English Painter Constable who’s work was shown at the
salon Paris in 1824. Constable’s outdoor sketches or studies were a fore runner of the Impressionist school
approach.

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 transiet state of the world and living.

Fundamentally 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.