I am an artist by soul inclination. I have been creating since I can remember and it was always about color and expressing something from a place deep within. Having been engaged with art and creativity for almost 30 years, professionally, I can still say that it is the most powerful force for the good, something that is sorely needed right now.
Many times in my own life, I have hit potholes and speed bumps, some of which were deep or high, but having the options to collapse in a heap or create, luckily my propensity was always to create. And I have always tried for beauty – from color, from form or subject matter. For me, beauty is love in form. Love personified. Love expressed through the hands, eyes and spirit and soul. Something that is sorely needed right now.
I have written a manuscript that details the way my art has accompanied me on my path. Occasionally, life became too much for me and asked for other kinds of commitments, much to my detriment, I now understand. Nine months ago, I read the manuscript. I followed the formula the paintings had laid out for me. I restored the balance. Painting and life in equal parts. Fifty-fifty. Something that was sorely needed for a long time.
So now, this collection represents, for me, a joyous return to my world of personal art and also a return to my own soul. This collection represents a longstanding commitment to live in the light. My past collections have been about mining the dark for its gifts and I have done so with determination about finding my hidden side, the sources of my anger, angst and depression. The journey has been long and arduous but worth it all.
It was a wise journey as now I have again tapped into a source of universal inspiration and creativity- scented flowers and their heady energy which is so abundantly beautiful. I have chosen, however, to paint them from the perspective of the night world illuminated by the moonlight. Others have been painted in daylight, bright and blooming images. Both kinds of images are symbolic of the embodiment of the feminine feeling Self, the Healer of both others and myself who may be experiencing suffering in this difficult day and age. For me, this is sacred and divine territory.
I call for a return to creativity and the blessings it brings in allowing us to bring our feelings to the surface to be felt, experienced and released to the Rainbow Goddess, the healer that brings beauty and grace, nourishment to the soul and removes stagnation and blocks to wholeness. Art and creativity can bring us back to wholeness, integrating the light and the dark and bringing balance into our dance between the worlds. Blessed Be!