I started painting this series at a time when I was desperately searching for some other place (not England) that would feel like home. As I started painting the wild landscapes I wanted to live in, I noticed that the same shapes kept appearing in all the pictures. Roads that converge definitely and purposefully towards the horizon. Spiralling and swirling skies. The repetition of the same pattern again and again lead me to wonder whether it carried some inner meaning.

In Jung’s Man and His Symbols I discovered the shapes imbedded within my landscapes were the same as those used either for meditation or in healing psychiatric patients. On showing the pictures to people different shapes seemed to invoke different feelings or emotions, irrespective of details within the land. The journey is thus a journey not just through land but also through the psyche towards spiritual wholeness.

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Beyond the Trees	Beyond the Trees 3	Autumn Wind
Field of Flowers	Flying to the Mountains	Under the Crazy Stars
Chase	Jagged Land	Destination Unknown
Jenny's Pond	Mountains & Cypresses	Summer Storm
Road to Grenoble (Day)	Road to Grenoble (Night)	Summer Breeze
Orchard	Bright Night Dream	Goa
Swirling Skies	Cornfield	Moon Dive
Cypress Road	Fish Lake	Leaving Grenoble
Release	Restless Night's Dream	La Seleve
Sky Dive 2	Sky Dive 3	Train
Midnight Mass	Paris by Night	Annecy

All pictures are copyright Nadia Warner and may not be used in any way whatsoever without her permission.