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'Steve Slimm - an exceptional artist painting in and around SW Cornwall, UK'
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Artist Steve Slimm - landscape painter
If you have spent any time
visiting galleries in the SW end of Cornwall, UK, anytime during the past two
and a half decades, you could already be familiar with the work of painter Steve
Slimm. He has been exhibiting paintings there, and in other UK galleries
regularly during that period. His main focus has always been the land, with
it's ever-shifting moods of light, and the deep sense of mystery surrounding
the ancient timeless tracts of land and its coastal extremities. From his
early training with John Miller during the late 70's, through his almost
obsessional explorations into the works of Turner, Monet, and finally Van
Gogh, Steve has moved further and further away from the literal, toward the
abstracted interpretation of the essence of what he sees. In more recent years
he has also developed an increasing love of colour, and uses it with an ever intensifying
passion! If you check out the name "Steve Slimm" on the web you will be aware
of the many recent or current exhibitions of his original paintings. Here, for
the first time, Steve is opening up his work to a larger worldwide audience
through these exquisite reproductions of his work in prints and cards, as well
as some original paintings.
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Steve Slimm, contemporary landscape artist,
has been painting and exhibiting
work in Cornwall, UK where he lives, for the past twenty-five years. He has
built a reputation especially for his evocative atmospheric landscapes, always
with a touch of mystery. It has been said that his soul shines through each
piece. His connection with the land around him is a very unique one, and
certainly shows itself in the paintings we have chosen for this inspirational
series of prints and art cards. Recently Steve has worked regularly at
specific locations in the Cornwall area that have a special connection to
earth energy and the ancient trackways. He has been painting along some of the
most powerful leylines in the world. Leylines, as far as we can be aware, are
relatively straight lines of earth energy along which it is thought that our
ancient ancestors travelled. These earth energy lines certainly link up
landmarks and sites of antiquity, and have a power which can be felt and
gauged by dowsers and people with that kind of sensitivity. What has come to
be known as the Michael line, along with its feminine counterpart the Mary
line, interweaving its way next to it, runs across the lower part of Britain,
from Land’s End in Cornwall across to the east coast. The lines runs through
many ancient sites, churches, stone circles, burial chambers etc. often
incorporating ’Michael’ or ’Mary’ within their names. Saint Michael’s Mount is
probably the most famous of these, and Steve’s home in Marazion has a
magnificent view over this ancient landmark. Other places along the Michael
line include the magnificent stone circle and stone avenues at Avebury in
Wiltshire, (which has also become famous for the many beautiful crop circles
appearing regularly in the surrounding fields), and the ancient Tor at
Glastonbury, in Somerset, (also known for its ancient spiritual connections).
Steve Slimm - 'Church at Carleen - On the ancient Leyline'
is one of the many paintings
Steve has produced from locations along these leylines. These places are so
full of ancient timeless mystery, and somehow connect us to a past, now lost
in pre-history, that transcends everything for which modern life has come to
be known. But not only this, we are at the same time somehow being plugged
into a most powerful earth energy, the potential of which can only be guessed
at. As human beings here on planet Earth we are perhaps only just beginning to
realise the true nature of our deep connection with the earth itself, and it’s
mysterious healing energies. Ley energy is some of the most powerful known
that we can connect with. It was how the ancients moved across the earth in
virtually straight lines guided only by the felt sense from beneath their
feet. To quote from the book ‘The Sun and the Serpent’ by Hamish Miller and
Paul Broad Hurst (Pendragon Press, 1989) page 15: ‘the question of meaning
arises . . In connection with modern discoveries of aligned sacred sites
(‘leys’) throughout the world, of temples orientated astrologically to receive
light and energies from certain heavenly bodies, of the mystical science of
geomancy and of the cosmological patterns of formulae which sustained ancient
civilisations. Revelations abound . . Together they amount to a statement,
given directly by nature; a statement that our present way of understanding
and treating the earth is wrong, that we inhabit a living planet and must give
it the respect due to any living creature. From that follows a quite different
perception of our relationship to nature, leading to a rediscovery of the
ancient spiritual sciences. We do not know why serpentine energies spiral
around the course of the line of St. Michael sites from the far west to the
far east of England. Others before us have recognised the phenomenon, and they
have made their sanctuaries and pilgrimage routes in relation to the earth
energies. The ancients, as Plato reminds us, were simple people. They did not
ask reason from nature but accepted things as they were. Plato also emphasises
that everything, all human science, knowledge and wisdom, originates from
divine revelation.’
Steve Slimm - 'Carn-Brea Castle'
Today, as always, this divine
revelation is still within the earth itself, and those human beings open and
trusting enough to allow a deep connection with nature and the earth energies
- those artists, poets, shamen, musicians and the like who travel towards such
realms, and bring back that little touch of the Divine into our suburban
living rooms - these will always be especially welcome in our world.
Steve
Slimm, as one of such, has spent 40 years of his life in this profound
spiritual pursuit in one way or another. We are thrilled to be able to use his
images on these beautiful inspirational prints and art cards. Aside from his
career in the arts, Steve is also an amazing musician - as well as his work
involved in helping others in various ways to empower themselves.
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