Walking the canal this morning, the grasses gently blowing, and the drizzly rain creating a mist in the distance, I was overcome with the beauty of the sights, the smells, the sounds. Beauty all around me, everywhere I look, but why?
I believe the beauty of the creation is an expression of a creator so beautiful that beauty spills out because it can't help but do that. It is an overflow of innate beauty.
We are also made as spiritual beings in that same image and it seems that the more that creativity is awakened the more it spills out and the more it needs expression. At the moment I am drawing lots every day and the more I do that the more beauty I see. Everywhere I look there is something that causes me to stop and to wonder. It fills me to want to make expression of beauty with paint and marks and textures.
This week I listened to a video (on You Tube) of Michael Palin on Anne Redpath, an artist I really admire. Her son says on the video that his mother could see beauty in everything, even a white cup and saucer on a white tablecloth. it made me think of a song that I am playing currently.
"Wide eyed and mystified
May we be just like a child
Staring at the beauty of the King."
Anne Redpath
Michaelmas Daisies
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