"I can taste the colors! Letting their vibrancy, softness, peace permeate me fills my soul."
Statement
My art practice has become a sacred act of faith. With my paintbrush, I create hope when none can be found. Finding buoyancy and resilience within myself through art is the core of my daily life. I realize that looking at my paintings, the viewer believes the artist's life is perfect, joyful. It is however, a precious moment of joy created through receiving the gift of art, that each viewer constructs for herself ~ yet again with each viewing.
Color flows without words. Fluid wavelengths of life-giving light connect body with spirit. Paint, pigments of the earth transmute creative energy into physical form on life-size canvas. With undulating strokes of alternating colors, warm and cool, I balance and harmonize body and soul in the mirror of my canvas. Feeling my way as the painting progresses, I let emotions guide me. Even subtle emotions become perceptible in the painting, revealing nuance of hue, vibrancy, and radiance.
Awash in the light, I scribe my mark with twigs of willow charcoal grounding my essence on earth, a precious moment of pleasure.
My signature calligraphy etched in wet paint fuses me, my experience of life itself, with all that is. A witness of the Creatrix, expressing the divine feminine presence here on earth, my artistry speaks faith in all that we are and are not. Again, the viewer may feel inspired to emulate the artist's painting process, rather it is practicing faith and unconditional acceptance of our own human weakness in any media that opens us to the divine feminine gift of being the vessel.
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