Tamara English
In my work I explore the experience of the presence of the divine in life. The natural world has long been where many find a connection to meaning and depth, and a catalyst for expanding one’s understanding of and developing a relationship with the sacred. Mystics have said that nature gives one a sense of exaltation. The paintings reveal the sense of wonder and majesty in everyday life as well as an expanded view of reality, making visible what is unseen in the physical world. Most of the wisdom traditions speak of multiple levels of awareness, or worlds beyond the physical world, such as the subtle and causal realms cited in Buddhist and Hindu texts. These worlds are the domain of night dreams, perceptions and our connection to our personal experience of the ineffable or the sacred. While the physical world is experienced through the bodily senses, the rest of these levels of awareness are accessed through attention to one’s inner atmosphere.
