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These paintings express my understanding
and appreciation of different aspects of the spiritual life and
the spiritual journey. They are stories involving myth, wonder
and spiritual transformation. Painting, for me, is a practice
of unification or integration and the mandala is a symbol of this
unity. Urgyen Sangharakshita reflects something of this process
in his talk on ‘Art and the Spiritual life’:
"When an artist creates, he objectifies and when he objectifies,
he can assimilate"
Images and the arts awaken in me the symbolic world which
in turn allows the meaning and significance of (my) life to be
lived. The desire to paint stems from a desire to express and
to reveal this meaning and value. To read more go to about
my work |