![]() ![]() I like to think of the experience of missing these beloved places as a way to train my heart toward what C. ![]() But there are also the landscapes we bear with us in absentia, those places that live on in memory long after they have withdrawn in actuality, and such places-retreated to most often when we are most remote from them-are among the most important landscapes we possess.” “We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they offer us the primary sensations of touch and sight. The British nature writer, Robert Mcfarlane, says this about the places that stay with us in deep ways: I carry a grief that I can no longer live in the place I call home, and that ache teaches me to yearn for a new world to come that we can only now see peaking over the eschatological horizon. These paintings are an attempt to keep alive and celebrate these memorable moments from my childhood. These memories are places where I felt caught up into what I know now as the life of God. I have a deeply powerful memory of standing in another place in Scotland, a rocky beach, and looking up at the night sky filled with the Aurora Borealis as it danced and undulated overhead. They are packed with rich colors and textures, and change constantly, moment to moment, as the weather shifts. Mountains in Scotland, I found, are quite different than other kinds of mountain. I grew up in North East Scotland and spent many hours walking the surrounding hills with my family. ![]()
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