Art

Heather Charnley’s personal method of artistic expression is to explore the nature of other realms, by sensing and portraying the form and nature of energies that she sees clairvoyantly, either by perceiving them directly at a sacred site, or etched in light on her sketchbook. Heather believes that many strange and wonderful energies exist outside of our mortal view: speedy vortices, others delicate and intricate, some smooth and soothing, others like visual music, Indian carpets...

I sit down to talk with Lucina S. Della Rocca, an artist and also my mother. As a child, I remember exploring her studio, smoothing a tentative finger over hardening oil paints on the palette. Lucina gained her art degree from the Southern College of Art Portsmouth and Southsea, then continued her training in sculpture at the Stroud School of Art, and later at the Royal College of Art under the invitation of John Skeaping....