Each generation has a few, relatively rare individuals whose creative visions and works can make of an era what it finally becomes. Nathaniel Bustion is among such individuals. His creativity has been consistently aligned with the vital forces in the arts during the sixties through the nineties. His every accomplishment has been nothing less than a universal awareness of Africa, Asia, Europe, South American, and North America. Your first encounter with Nathaniel Bustion through his art leaves you with an extraordinary profound sense of beauty. Not beauty in the popular sense, the superficial, but a deeper inner realization that what you have

experienced is at once a totally revolutionary expression, and yet older than history. He overpowers your senses. He teases your curiosity and then politely destroys all the cliches that have crept into your consciousness over the centuries of "civilization". His work has a space and time all its own, but more importantly it possesses a feel that compels you feet first into the future…with a rush! Much like a fine wine, it consumes you. You find yourself lingering forever on the edge of something spiritual that inexplicably pulls its strength from the sweat, the joy, the sorrow, the rhythm, the fear, the discoveries and the heartbreaks of reality. In an age when so many are lost in a maze of appointments and scheduling, Nathaniel's work is timeless. It sets you free … almost. You have to go back for more.

A work of art is not merely a painted picture. It is, more so, an artifact of a struggle to express intanglible factors existing beyond the frontiers of our reality.