"I never get tired of a blue sky"

"I never get tired of  blue sky" 

Vincent Van Gogh

If you ask a child to draw a picture of the sky, the colour they choose would be a bright almost turquoise blue.

Many artists over time have painted skies, trapping them in time.

The British painter Constable painted a stormy sky in the 1800s. His cloudy skies were apparently very accurate, and have allowed meteorologists to calculate the time and season when he painted a particular picture.

Turner's pictures epitomise  a stormy sky drawing you in to ride the waves amongst twar-torn ships the mist  swirling and cavorting around you.
And in complete contrast Van Gough's simple sky which shines a bright as day.
  

Photographs, however, capture a moment in time, and having lived a year in Molise, I have woken each day to glorious skies, everyone a different shade of blue.


 
Art is not merely an image captured on camera or painted on a page it is all around us. We many of us walk around in a trance blind to the beauty of the world which stretches out before us.

Plato says that art imitates the objects and events of ordinary life. In other words, a work of art is a copy of a copy It is even more of an illusion than an ordinary experience

Of course, the debate still goes on about what defines art, and it really does not matter to the casual admirer. 

We merely need to live our lives with our eyes wide open to enjoy the beauty of the art created by so many talented people both here in Molise and in the wider world.

If art is something that has to be created then everything we make can be art, from a discarded carboard box to a silver bracelet.

Paintings on walls in a gallery are images the artist wanted to protray, but they mi

During the past year Molise, I have been reduced to tears many times by the sheer magnitude and splendour of all that surrounds me.

A sky stretching out in front of me, a blanket of dazzlingly beautiful blue.

 The church and Castle at Castelpignano

A road leading to heaven via Molise!