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Art and Nature Series: Georgia O’Keefe

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…

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Art and Nature Series: Robert Smithson

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…

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Art and Nature Series: Henri Matisse

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…

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Art and Nature Series: Vincent Van Gogh

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…

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Art and Nature Series: Caspar David Friedrich

At CCH Live, we are sharing our favourite awe inspiring artworks of our beautiful world for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own homes.Today we bring you a one of Caspar David Friedrich’s most moving works ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog’ (1817), picturing a cloudy mountain range in the quintessential Romantic style.…

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Art and Nature Series: Albert Bierstadt

Enjoy the panoramic views of the early American West Coast as the next painting of our Art and Nature series. ‘California Spring’ (1875), Albert Bierstadt’s Eden-like rendering of the West, was a sight for curious East Coast.Albert BierstadtCalifornia Spring, 1875 The American landscape painting style Luminism is employed here and is characterised by the attempt…

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Art and Nature Series: Philomena Kennedy

The second painting in our Art and Nature series is Philomena Kennedy – Kent Landscape.Nature and art both play an important part of our mental wellbeing and can help to uplift your spirits.Philomena KennedyKent Landscape Today we would like to feature the peaceful pastoral paintings of Philomena Kennedy. Although Kennedy has travelled around the world…

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Art and Nature Series: David Hockney

Jacqueline Harvey, along with wellness clinic CCH Live, are starting a new series called ‘Art and Nature’, to get us all through the cold autumn and winter months. Nature plays an important part of our mental wellbeing and through art we hope to uplift your spirits. We can’t wait to share some of our favourite…

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The Benefits of Rural Living with Jacqueline Harvey & Crest Nicholson

Outdoor spaces, countryside holidays and rural living are important for our mental health and wellbeing. Today, exposure to nature also helps us to boost our immune system, and reduce anxiety and lift our spirit in these stressful times.Take a look at this short clip where Jacqueline Harvey in association with Crest Nicholson, explains the benefits…

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