Penelope's Song

Learning to live with duality, maybe one day I'll find triplicity. "I'll keep your heart with mine Till you come to me..." From "Penelope's Song" by Loreena McKennitt

The moon cycles us through an understanding of relationship - with the sun, our source, our spirit mission.

The moon's glow a mere reflection - in blue of night we 'see', we intuit, we reason, about that which is too bright to view by day and the naked eye.

In process - acrylic & pastel on masonite - 48" x 48"

"The moonlight it was dancing On the waves, out on the sea." From "Beneath a Phrygian Sky" by Loreena McKennitt

Musical Ambiance: The Ancient Muse by Loreena McKennitt

Everything is Love

Letting tension, anger, drain away so I can get to that place of calm and focus - that place where painting germinates. To be able to work - first space and time needs to be carved out.

We are called to do our work, be it cleaning, or painting, or fathering or dancing.

For me, the paint, the music, call me home every time.

In Process - acrylic & pastel on masonite - 48" x 48"

I sit and watch the paint drip, and miss my home.

Each mark, a telling, a revealing, of my soul.

Abby-Girl

I'm know I'm asking a lot of you dear reader, but take a leap - join with me, though I know not where we'll land.

Everything is love, including the darkness.

Musical Ambiance: Loreena McKennitt

Deus

Deus - acrylic and charcoal on masonite - 48" x 48"

As I sit in my studio I wind it down, morphing into 'Artist's Time' which requires no clock.

I listen to the birds flying and my dog breathing, as everything flows in and out of my body and I let my worries... a snake! Suddenly a large snake appears outside my open door and I am afraid! What if it's a rattlesnake?! It isn't. I take this Rosy Boa as a sign that I am going deeper today and that I am on track, alive in my veins.

I ask myself, "What is your purpose here on earth?"

And then I paint.

Laguna Beach ~ Flowers

It's all coming together now ~ life, work, art.

Deus (definition) - n. God. [Middle English, from Latin.]

Musical Ambiance: Erasure & Bjork.

In Her Clutches

acrylic, pastel and charcoal on masonite - 48" x 48"

Astrology takes over. Within her clutches (they feel very Saturnine as well as Uranian) I lose my sense of self, boundaries dissolve, my head fills with mythologies, depth psychology, Jungian archetypes. It's hard for me to feel when astrology is my focus.

Musical Ambiance: Propaganda & Pat Proud.

Lux Vivens

In Process - acrylic on masonite - 48" x 48"

It's the New Moon in Aries this week, very powerful.

Aries is the pioneer, the warrior and the baby too.

I am planting seeds of intention, my hands are dirty, covered in soil and primer, but this time I'll have help. Getting sidetracked is not an option.

Each brushstroke a prayer. When beginning a painting it helps to start with forms that one falls in love with.

Musical Ambiance: "Lux Vivens" by Jocelyn Montgomery with David Lynch.