London-based Jacqueline Harvey, an award-winning expert in health, art, and media, offers holistic solutions to diverse clients across the globe
Diabetes is a chronic illness that causes a person’s blood sugars to become too high; there are two main types – Type 1 and Type 2. The hormone called insulin controls the level of sugar in the blood and the pancreas produces this hormone. Type 2 diabetes is a more common lifestyle illness that can…
The relationship between fitness and mental health is very important, with exercising, workout sessions, and fitness trainings providing many benefits for our mental health and emotional wellbeing. Many animals in their natural habitat move much more than us as part of their everyday life, but we as a species have become too sedentary. Incorporating movement…
Claude Monet’s magnificent Water Lilies series (1914 – 1926) are some of his most famous works as Monet repeatedly depicts his beloved garden which he treated as a work of art alone, calling it his “finest masterpiece.” Working in the Impressionist style, Monet focuses on the experiential feeling and optical pleasure of nature with colourful…
“Nature is the fountain’s head, the source from whence all originality must spring”There is no one able to reproduce the heat of the mid-day sun, sound of a summer breeze, or the cool of the shade cast across a panoramic view than John Constable. ‘Hampstead Heath, with the House Called ‘The Salt Box’ (1819-20) is…
Barbara Hepworth’s modernist sculptures are able to capture the essence of a landscape in abstract form. The interactive nature of ‘Three Obliques, (Walk-in)’ (1968) allows viewers to experience the art’s surroundings with a new perspective, both by immersing themselves in the sculpture’s presence as well as the viewfinder framed by looking through the work.Her remarkable…
There is an important link and relationship between fitness and mental health, with the benefits of exercising and fitness training not only limited to our physical health and abilities. Different types of exercise can be used as a form of therapy or counselling for our emotional wellbeing and mental health, as well as our personal…
Georgia O’Keefe is known for her gorgeous flower paintings and in ‘Red Hills and White Flower II’ (1949) she enters a new chapter of her life when she moved to New Mexico, sick of city life. O’Keeffe has a Model-A Ford as a mobile studio, where she could paint beautiful landscapes from her window. She…
Robert Smithson constructed a stone and earth jetty in the Utah salt flats, ‘Spiral Jetty’ (1971). This ephemeral work fluctuates in colour, appearance, and visibility in the changing seasons and weather. This experience of art is transient as it questions the viewer’s assumptions of art and their own relationship to space. Only a few years…
Matisse had a great love for the small southern sea town of Collioure and through the large swathes of unreal colours the heat of the summer can be felt. Each expressive brushstroke creates an energy as if the heat is radiating from the ground. With just a few angled strokes, Matisse masterfully creates a village…
Landscapes, yellow—old gold—done quickly, quickly, quickly, and in a hurry just like the harvester who is silent under the blazing sun, intent only on the reaping,” is how Van Gogh described this stunning painting, one of many quick studies of the fields in Provence. These idyllic views were his muse, consuming him to continuously capture…