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Om - The Sound of Creation. The most Sacred Sound - Om (AUM) is the root of the Universe. According to core Indian Philosophy "Om is the one eternal syllable of which all that exists is but the development. The past, the present, and the future are all included in this one sound, and all that exists beyond the three forms of time is also implied in it".

As a child I would draw anything and everything - Art being the only subject in school I was ever really interested in, it seemed obvious and natural that I would study and become an art teacher in schools. This never happened – having been offered a place at college to train as a teacher I realised that I wanted to paint and draw but didn’t particularly want to teach other (young) people to pass exams in the subject, so instead, I embarked on a career utilizing my second love – photography. I trained as a photo-journalist and later, with my wife Lynn, ran a very busy photographic and picture framing business. Framing other peoples work, was a constant reminder to me of what I wasn’t finding the time to do myself – paint. The...