Memories With Art (Guest Post By James G.)

A Blaugust swap: James writes here, I write there. A Note From Me First One of this year's Blaugust prompts is to write a guest post on someone else's blog. James G. and I decided to do it both ways at once: he wrote the piece below for me, and I wrote I Thought It Was A Tire for him. Go read his side of the swap once you're done here. James and I have been trading posts for a while now, and it's one of my favourite things about keeping a site. You write something, someone writes something back, and the web gets a little warmer for it. This is the first time we've done it as a proper guest post, though, each on the other's turf. Everything from here down is his. Thank you, James. Memories With Art, By James G. Close your eyes. Picture a painting you love, or think of a piece of music you love. Where are you? What stands out? How do you feel? I am entranced. Moments earlier, I was ready to leave the gallery, having spent time with paintings of Nature, the names of whose painters I…