Art has always been related to Spirituality. I can’t conceive of art without it.

Norman Adams RA, (1927-2005)

The above quote is written on the back of a card I bought from The Royal Academy, which I rediscovered recently. Rainbow Painting (1) 1966 has been glued to my studio wall for at least a couple years, and it still makes me smile.

As a romantic artist I suppose my concern is with the usual problems of life-death, body-soul, tangible-intangible, time-space etc. The translucent and ephemeral quality of the rainbow contrasts powerfully with the weight of the sea. Yet both rainbow and sea are complete entities—independent yet integrally related—like the body and the soul.

Norman Adams RA

He once described himself as a ‘compulsive believer’. There are many religions that people believe in: Norman could believe in them all…

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