Jonathan Evens was one of the speakers at ArtServe's Hearts on Fire! festival weekend. Part of a double act with Peter Banks, co-author with Jonathan of The Secret Chord, their talk focused on the twin themes of artistic dilemmas and synchronicity which are explored within the book.
Jonathan said:
"Our
experience of creativity is of disparate and often contradictory ideas being
crushed, swirled, fermented, shaken AND stirred in our minds in order that the
fine wine of creativity results. Those disparate and often contradictory ideas
are a little like the grit in the oyster which eventually produces the pearl or
possibly, in this instance, the Secret Chord. Our hope is that this book, by
exploring artistic dilemmas from a range of different perspectives, will mature
in people’s minds exactly like some fine wine or that pearl."
Jonathan was also interviewed, together with Canon Ivor Moody (Vice-Dean of Chelmsford Cathedral), on BBC Essex this morning. The interview can be heard here (for the next seven days) and covered the Deconstructing c o n f l i c t exhibition and inter-faith lecture, plus their review of the Sunday newspapers.
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