Always a place I love to visit, British Landscapes: A Sense of Place at Pallant House Gallery brings together work by artists who regard landscape in a variety of ways, but always as more than mere scenery. In this article I will explore work by several artists with whom I feel a connection within my own experience of landscape, making art, and being in the world. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester Landscape as presence Paul Nash Paul Nash, Avebury - Landscape of the Megaliths

Art can become inseparable from identity, vocation, and the shape of a life. This article explores psychotherapy for artists navigating blocks, exposure, recognition, livelihood, and change.

There are certain ideas that seem to sit just beneath the surface of modern life, recognised in fragments, but rarely given their full significance. Imagination is one of them. In Lost Knowledge of the Imagination, Gary Lachman explores how imagination has been misunderstood, marginalised, and often reduced to something trivial or unreal within Western culture. What emerges instead is a very different picture. One in which imagination is not a secondary function of the mind,

There is a particular tension that many artists and creatives will recognise. A sense of something wanting to be expressed, alongside the realities and limitations that shape how, or whether, that expression can take form. This tension is not only practical. It is often deeply personal, touching on questions of identity, purpose, and what it means to bring something of oneself into the world. ...in a world that is more often than not associated with a harsh and destructive bo

There are times in life when the sense of direction we once had begins to falter. What once felt clear may no longer feel like our own, and the question of how to move forward becomes less certain. At these points, it is not always a lack of options that troubles us, but a deeper uncertainty about which path, if any, truly belongs to us. Traveller there is no path. The path is made by walking. These lines from a poem by Antonio Machado are often encountered at moments when we

If explanation is the self-cure for curiosity, we have a lot of explaining to stop doing; if desire is the refuge from wide-angled attention, we have a lot of wanting to relinquish. In Attention Seeking, Adam Phillips offers a way of thinking about attention that moves beyond the obvious. Attention is something we give and receive, and is in turns needed, wanted, and feared in its various forms. In psychotherapy, we notice that a symptom, or a state of mind, is something that

Cecil Collins is an artist I have a great appreciation for. This book documents the thoughts and reflections of many of those who knew him, whether as a collector, curator, student of his unique teaching methods, or through other connections. Collins’ work carries a particular quality that is difficult to define, yet unmistakable when encountered. It speaks from a place that feels both ancient and immediate, personal and universal. Images arise from the fountainhead of human