Sitting Woman in Landscape with Masks Photograph

A Poetic Sensibility: Those paintings which most fully express the spiritual world, the soul of humanity, a sense of the Divine. I have never been able to shake off my childhood conviction that this world is a world of magic and wonder, and our existence here on this planet, and the existence of the universe itself, is somehow improbable, ultimately inexplicable and mysterious. Interests: Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Picasso, Matisse, Joan Miro, Alan Davie, J. M. W. Turner, German Expressionist Painting, Michel Angelo, Abstract Expressionism, M. C. Escher, Chinese Painting, Japanese Painting, African Art, Egyptian Art, Art Today, Modernism in Art, Gothic Art, Neolithic Art, The Book of Kells, I Ching, William Blake, William Shakespeare, Robert Graves, Homer, Leonard Cohen, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius, Buddhism, Mythology, The Four Gospels, Dante, Zen Mind Zen Brush, Jesus Christ, Ancient Verse, Modern Poets, Ovid, Lao Tzu. Where lived: Imagination, Pictures, Paintings, Art Galleries, Museums, Books, Bed-sits, Artists studios, Pyramids, Golgotha, Libraries, Flats, New Towns, Old Cities, Mind, Body, Heaven, Hell, Past, Present, Future, Poetry, Painters, Poets, Scientists, Sea, Sky, World, Earth, Liverpool, Sunderland, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, London, Skelmersdale. Where live: With paintings and brushes, with studio space, with bed-sitting room, with solitude and silence, with a Buddha statue, with a Greek vase, with a Japanese vase, with framed pictures of paintings by Modigliani, with book cases, with leather chairs, with a photograph of Billy Holiday, in Skelmersdale, in West Lancashire, in England, in the UK, in Europe. Biography: I was born in Liverpool on 25th August 1957. I am currently a member of the West Lancashire Artists Network. Visit: www.maitland-gallery.co.uk