Spiritual Art

The genre of Spiritual Art opens a window to a world which is at a different level of consciousness to the more everyday ‘ordinary’ consciousness.

This implies trying to express a ‘supersensible’ reality; in other words, the reality is not the material world of landscapes for example, or the world where everyday objects become the focus of artistic expression.

This movement away from realism was the intention of the genre called Impressionism which was concerned to articulate the tonal relationship of light and dark and a less fixed realistic impression of the world. Impressionism approaches spiritual art, but its realm of expression is still more or less the visible, natural world of the senses.

Spiritual art – my spiritual art – approaches the realm of ‘forces’ which live in a ‘supersensible’ reality. We refer to these forces as spiritual qualities such as evil and good.

The spiritual world thus speaks to a mysterious, unknown, and ‘higher’ reality. An analogy for this is the world of science fiction.

It is however not fantasy but a higher imaginative plane of energy.

So in my spiritual art I attempt to express that which is sublime, powerful and has an element of the eternal rather than the transitory.