Meditation

Mural: Sacred Lotus

Painting murals and providing art in healing facilities and schools and other public spaces has been a dynamic part of my life as an artist. I have always loved a blank wall and the thrill of changing the way we feel in a physical space using color, shape and form is exciting and meaningful.
This is a 15′ mural at Sacred Lotus Mind Body Spirit in Uptown area of Columbus, Georgia. It really was a blissful project.

Between Heaven and Earth

This recent painting explores the notion that while alive on earth, everything and everyone is infused with light and an essence of love. Earthbound, yet of pure love (heaven). Actually, this not just a concept or a notion, but rather something we can sense and generate, expand upon. To choose to see love more than to see angst, for example, and to celebrate the glow of light in everyone and in ourselves is to be as if in a garden of bliss that we tend to ourselves. Recently this painting was at The Highland Galerie in Columbus, Georgia and one viewer said the area of red clay (mid right side) reminded her of the moment just before God created Adam out of clay (humans being of the earth with all its conditions but created in a divine image of the Creator).

Between Heaven and Earth 36″x40″ mixed media on linen

Southern Spring Time

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.

Creating for a Cause: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

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.

https://creating4acause.attendease.com

Shekinah Series: Flowers for the Bride

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.