influences

• Australian Aboriginal Art – In particular the sacred heritage site of Narwala Gabarnmung. Also, the profound attunement of aboriginal peoples to their landscape and intercommunal integrity.

• North American First Nations – particularly the Abenaki peoples of South Eastern Quebec – their deep ecological and spirit consciousness in nature and their living ancestral relationships.

• Neolithic standing stones, tombs and henges – particularly the Carnac Stones in Brittany, France and Avebury, Wiltshire in England. Additionally, the Bronze Age Sea Henge discovered in Norfolk, England.

• Graeme Warren -‘Mesolithic Lives in Scotland’

• Nan Shepherd - ‘The Living Mountain’.

• Upper paleolithic and paleo-indian archaeology.

• Carl Jung’s Understanding of Archetype and the Multi-layered Unconscious.

• Andy Fisher – 'Radical Ecopsychology' – his quest for re-attunement to nature

• David Lewis Williams – ‘The Mind in the Cave’

• Ernst Fischer – 'The Necessity of Art’

• Carl Jung – ‘Mandala Symbolism’

• Antonio Tapies – his understanding of the importance of a return to origins in art.

• Joseph Campbell – 'Primitive Mythology'