Novelty & Creativity

Searching through chaos to find order (a pattern), by exploring aspects of art not governed by rules and routines provides a surprising new pattern that results in pleasure and a sense of knowing.

Intellectual Challenge

Perceptual and intellectual capacities are a source of aesthetic pleasure. Objects that deny easy explanation give pleasure in tracing out their complex historical or interpretive dimensions.

Imaginative Experience

Artistic experience happens in the theatre of the mind. Like mythology and personal experience, objects of art provide an imaginative experience. Art happens in a make-belief world. 

Expressive Individuality

Visual guide to Expressive Individuality and the artistic spirit.

Emotional Saturation

Emotional Saturation. Embodied experience and expressed emotion. Perspective through feeling. Colours and shapes as guides to emotion.

Direct Pleasure

Criticism

The value and meaning of artistic Criticism. Judgement is Enjoyment. 

Buddhist Sketchbook

A small Japanese sketchbook filled with drawings that are never complete.

Missing The Mark

Heaven and hell are born together. An infinite variety of each. The Image we explore here is not a psychic reflection of an external object, but a concept derived from poetic usage. Imagination is the reproductive or creative activity of the mind in general and Fantasy is the direct expression of psychic life. Dreams are […]