Welcome to Christine Day's website
In the Swinging Sixties I wrote for a whole range of teen magazines – Boyfriend, Big Beat, Trend, Petticoat, Fabulous, Intro and interviewed numerous pop stars and actors, many who were icons in embryo - David Bowie, Twiggy, The Who, Tom Jones, Michael Caine. My brother, actor Clive Colin Bowler, had a pad in the Kings Road, Chelsea. We went where the In Crowd went…
John Wakefield's inspirational unicorn painting
Earth Dreams
John Wakefield’s unicorn painting turned me on! It connected me with an essence that allowed me to be deeply creative, earthy, sensuous, and spiritual…For me writing has always been about painting with words………….
As a journalist on the psychedelic London Pop Scene or as a short story writer for ‘19’ and other magazines, I was always trying to capture the colours of people and their emotions and my own.
My novella Between The Broken Glass The People Play published by John Calder, based on my tragic love affair with an actor, was the nearest I had come at that point to being a writer-painter.
There have been times when the colours have been particularly vivid – talking to Bob Dylan,……interviewing Jimi Hendrix…..breakfasting with Quentin Crisp in a downtown New York diner for Hello! magazine. He was extraordinary, very spiritual and spoke in painted words.
My interest in healing and spiritual psychotherapy led me into colour more deeply through studying the human aura. Then I went to Mexico and spent a month in the desert as close to earth and stars as I could get and began to understand that I could paint as well as write.
Back in England I studied colour at an even deeper level with therapist Pam Blake-Wilson and realised everything is about colour. And during this time I met artist John Wakefield who was taking tentative steps at selling his paintings, paintings that everyone wanted to buy anyway! On his website I saw the unicorn painting that inspired my book Earth Dreams and which was to take me on a long journey……
I also discovered that I could write and I could paint, that they were one and the same thing…..….
The painting of the unicorn standing on its hind legs in the twilight started me dreaming and the dream kept expanding. First came Circle Of Oaks, then Valley Of The Shadow, Tomorrow Is Yesterday, The Elementals, The Travelling Circus, and finally The Watchers. Woven together these visions became Earth Dreams.
I was living and working in a tiny studio in West Sussex. Ancient oak trees towered above the roof and stood in adjoining fields. The trees formed a powerful circle of energy which I was able to tap.
I was dreaming with Mother Earth and it was very beautiful and very safe.
