Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being.
ALAN LEE
When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.
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Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being.
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I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I’m still learning how to see them.
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When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.
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Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire.
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No matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .
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Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged.
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To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it.
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This is one of the magical things about drawing – it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.
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I ‘m still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I’ll get it right.
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I’m drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends.
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I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature,
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The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections – not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity.
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When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it.
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And at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences.
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I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.
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