The South is full of light and floral beauty, it inspires and lulls me into day dreams. There is harmony in nature, even with the chaotic wildness and I find myself painting the feelings I get when out in my courtyard, meandering around to see what new buds have appeared over night. This piece exhibited in the Funding Future Artists exhibit recently and is now with a private collector.
Join me on July 15th 7-8 pm EST for a stream drawing workshop with Creating for a Cause, hosted by American Foundation for the Prevention of Suicide. I will guide you in stream drawing, a creative-meditation process that strengthens empathic-intuitive sensing, creative expression and wellbeing. This easy, fun and often profoundly enlightening and synchronistically surprising drawing method is one you naturally know, inwardly, and once you recapture it, can use it to center and to embolden your own ingenious creative resources for living a life of purpose and strength.
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This is a new work from my series, Shekinah. It is 36″x24″ acrylic on canvas. ($700)
There is twilight inside of each of us, like a light within that becomes otherworldly. It is beyond time and order and is an in-dwelling force of love, of newness, of the promise of all things good. Without this inner twilight, we are simply animals striving, eating, scratching out a life. It is the Bride who reminds us that we are more, we are spiritual beings within a human body, and it is cause for great celebration. And it is with a sense of awe that we step softly or run vigorously to thrive as best we can all the days of this brief life.
At twilight on Shabbat, we welcome the Bride. She is Shekinah. Welcome the part of yourself that is not just physical but which gives the physical its ballast and hope. Celebrate that mysterious other, the magical and wondrous aspects of yourself, and recognize it in others.
My first book for children was on conflict resolution and then as a visiting author and artist in schools, libraries and museums, with public and private groups I taught a drawing technique to children for the purpose of developing empathy and working well with peers as a result. That lead to a deep meditation drawing practice that I teach mainly to adults (kids already know naturally) and found it to be a joyous way to recapture creative empowerment (an essential for being human) and empathic, intuitive “quiet knowing”. This is something we all have and need to develop more since imagination, creativity and spiritual sensing are all in one place (not just the right side of the brain, but in our hearts, too).
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Last night I taught stream drawing to a large group of young adults at Covenant House. I was so moved by not just their creative expressiveness, but the depth and insightful reflections they had based on their stream drawings. I was able to hear them explain profound and meaningful associations and emotions they had based on their imagery. I can’t say enough how wonderful this experience was, and how important it is for us to draw freely with open hearts and minds, and embrace one another while supporting the creative genius within ourselves and others.
Water Color Stream Drawing/ August 2019
I’ve been doing stream drawings (stream drawing is a drawing meditation technique I developed and you can see more at MAKING MARKS: Discover the Art of Intuitive Drawing/Simon and Schuster) with studio visitors and it is enlivening, relaxing and at times profound. Playful, creative (our natural state of being, in essence!) presence at times springs forth wisdom, conscious awareness in the form of surprise and delight, and gives us the chance to see things in new, unexpected ways. Book your stream drawing session time with me and let’s see where it takes us.
Come join us at Indigo on Nov 18th at 3-6 pm EST. We are hosting a fun event to celebrate the many ways we can elevate our wellness and embody wellbeing. This event will be fun and interesting with such excellent practitioners to meet and learn about. Register on FB or contact Indigo Wellness at 404-370-1151.
I look forward to seeing you there!
