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Charging bison and dancing horses, swirling spirals and shamans in the spirit
world: trance images, pecked and painted onto living rock by generations of
hunter-gatherers, herders and farmers.
Whatever its meaning when the earth was young, rock art speaks to us now of a
time when people lived their lives close to nature, in tune with the rhythm of
the earth. It is no coincidence that most rock art is associated with what we
think of today as wilderness areas, the far reaches of temporal and spiritual
existence, wild landscapes where the past is still visible in the present, where
what is most special has to do with the way we respond to nature. For twenty
years Tony Hopkins has filled sketchbooks with his impressions of the world’s
wild places and their secret rock art sites. This collection of paintings is his
way of
reaffirming the connection between people and their natural environment: art
gifted to the elements, gathered from the wilderness.
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