Nick Bantock
Nick Bantock
Nick Bantockis a British artist and author based in Saltspring Island, British Columbia, known for his series, The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy. His books are published by Raincoast Books in Canada and Chronicle Books in the United States...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth14 July 1949
art together spirituality
You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.
children book kids
I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.
growing-up doors light
Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.
collective-unconscious want way
For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.
love-you home journey
Do you see that I cherish you beyond question, that you have nothing to prove to me? You are making your journey to secure yourself. I am already tethered to your side. if you can love yourself as I love you there will be no dislocation --- you will be whole. Bring yourself home to me and I will immerse you in very ounce of tenderness I possess. - Sabine Strohem
pain heart loss
in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.
foundation nasty elegance
It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.
pain constant bedfellows
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows
ideas perspective events
An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.
understanding green approximation
Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.
country stars going-out
The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.
writing long letters
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts