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Five Questions/Five Art Works has become one of the most well-read features of Wildlife Art Journal.  With each new artist interview, one can sense the momentum rapidly taking shape.  Perhaps the only thing more exciting than an artistic creation is getting inside the head of the artist who made it.We'll say it one more time:  Five Questions/Five Art Works is the art conversation that never ends.  In the dialogue that follows, enjoy sculptor Simon Gudgeon's interview with Jonathan Sainsbury in which they explore the power of allegory in developing a narrative for painting as well as many other things.  In the U.K., Gudgeon and Sainsbury are friends as well as colleagues, restless in their refusal to be pinned down or pigeon-holed by a narrow definition of Realism.Writes Sainsbury:  "Nature is too big for me to have found just one style to fit everything I encounter, so I use different techniques to express what I wish to say.  I prod and probe and paint, hoping to reflect something of its complexity and beauty, looking for a glimpse of Eden."Sainsbury and his wife, Kate, live in Comrie, Perthshire, a part of central Scotland known for its big landscapes, sporting and equestrian culture. They love the country life.Sainsbury has gained critical international acclaim for charting his own course as an interpretor, drawing upon both traditional Western naturalism and Asian concepts of design and composition in his work.  Some have suggested a kindredness in style between Sainsbury and American Thomas Quinn .In our...