\nThe average American spends 90% of their time indoors. <\/p>\n
As of 2010 humans have become an urban species, separated from the landscapes and seascapes we have evolved from, she insists.<\/p>\n
Thys mentions desire to exercise our brain, increase focus & concentration, speed healing, release stress, increase energy, inspire creativity- what delivers all these and more?
\nSurround ourselves with nature, she says.
\nWhat\u2019s really exciting about recent studies, if people are unable to venture outdoors, just imagery of nature can have a powerful effect.<\/p>\n
Thys quotes a study<\/a> by Roger Ulrich in hospital patients, with rooms viewing trees required less pain med\u2019s and healed quicker.<\/p>\n Could nature imagery help defray that growing deficeit and if so, how, she queries. What I find fantastically inspiring, of these studies, not once have I found the subjects were nature lovers or art lovers at all. The powerful effect of art and imagery is something artists have long known. It\u2019s just nice to have science spreading the news.<\/p>\n ~ on a side note The paintings I did for my Mom\u2019s bedside in hospital she delighted in, calling them ‘healing paintings’. It wasn\u2019t a surprise she felt this way, she had an amazing connection to the work. \u201cLose yourself in Nature and find peace\u201d the caption read on a poster in my room when I was young. The photo exhibited a fawn, illuminated in sunlight, surrounded by lush dense forest. We had recently moved to town from … Continue reading
\nWhich habitats calm us, or inspire us? Teaming up with National Geographic on a study how nature engages the brain, she states this research will help provide guided nature imagery when we are separate from the wild, to \u201creconnect us all\u2019<\/p>\n
\nIt isnt\u2019 a requirement for the work to have an impact on your lives in a multitude of ways.
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\nNew Tundra 18×36 Oil <\/p>\n
\nCustomers have placed paintings in a nursery to calm a baby, in offices to inspire creativity, above dining tables and in gyms, family gathering living rooms, or, interestingly, at a lakeside cottages.<\/p>\n
\nThe surprise for me, was the effect the art had on the hospital staff. Never underestimate the power of art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"