‘Music, Painting, Landscape, and Me’ by Marc Yeats

Publication date 1st April 2024

In this book, composer and landscape painter Marc Yeats embarks on an introspective journey, weaving together the symbolic realms of music and painting through the written word. This endeavour expands upon the immediacy of engagement with his compositions and paintings and what these artworks tell us, offering further understanding and dialogue concerning their interrelation. Yeats’s transformation of his inquiries and insights into text emerges from a conviction that the foundational questions—the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of being an artist and his creative exploration—resonate far beyond the confines of his personal experience, reaching out to a wider community of artists and those intrigued by the mechanisms of artistic expression.

I have known Marc Yeats for some years now. We met ‘virtually’, initially, as is often the way these days, via Facebook and TwitterX, and then in real life when I moved to Dorset in 2018. We have become good friends and enjoy many stimulating conversations about creativity – and so much more! (I also own one of Marc’s wonderful landscape paintings.) For a flavour of our conversations, do watch this video

I was very flattered when Marc asked me to endorse his book

Music, Painting, Landscape and Me is a fascinating, detailed and honest journey into the endlessly curious, questioning and polymathic mind of landscape artist and composer Marc Yeats. Drawing on a diverse range of subjects – including quantum mechanics, metaphysics, philosophy, fuzzy logic, neuroscience and hermeneutics – this book offers the reader an extraordinary personal insight into the complex mechanisms of making art and music, and Yeats’ own intent, impulse, imagination and inspiration. Furthermore, it shines an important light on the ‘how and why’, not only of Yeats’ artistic practice, but that of creative individuals in general, and is an invaluable contribution to the understanding of the creative impulse and ‘what artists do all day’.

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