Crescent Moon with Earth Sh...
Chris Hankey-artist£3400.00
“Paintings and drawings inspired from nature”
I have a fascination and awe of nature, weather, watching winter storms, and observing the universe through my telescope of being an amateur astronomer. I am passionate about cycling and organise long distance cycle touring journey’s drawing and painting the Landscape and seascapes as I travel, my last tour was with my son and lasted nine months three of which we spent in Iceland cycle touring the ring road and crossing the centre twice. This was a self organised and self funded touring artist in residence where I documented the journey through sketchbooks, post tour paintings and created temporary stone balance sculptures along the way.
Having this constant interaction with nature has had a profound effect on my philosophical outlook. I view consciousness as the universe becoming self aware that there is a deeply profound connection between consciousness and nature. In many ways our modern world has succeeded in distancing the majority of people from nature and I believe this is to our great loss. I do not view consciousness and nature as separate creations or as creations at all, rather as interconnected natural phenomena emerging through the natural evolution of the universe and the laws of nature. In such a philosophy there is no reason to believe in super natural or mythical beings, consciousness is the Universe becoming self aware and that is beyond sublime, and that is beautiful enough and wonderful enough for me.
In essence I paint and draw to celebrate nature, our existence, our connection to nature, this pale blue dot on which self aware sentience emerged through evolution to ask questions about the nature of the universe.
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