Voices From Beyond came from an internal inspiration that I did not know about. The title of the painting came to me after it was finished, and I examined what I had painted. Most of us have spiritual thoughts, feelings, and even voices within us all the time, but are we listening? We exist in this world as both a physical and spiritual person. Mankind has always had an inherent knowledge of the existence of what we may call the unknown. We feel a connection to it even though we don’t understand it. That is because it is so immense it is beyond our comprehension. Yet this inherent feeling drives us to pursue heights beyond our imagination. That is the voice from beyond.

As I thought about our spiritual side and physical side this series of paintings developed using lots of texture and actual physical additions from the earth. The blank canvas or panel is painted pure white with gesso and/or paint as a beginning. For me the paint directly applied to the canvas simulates the spiritual side of life. Before adding paint, I add a layer of texture material in various areas of the canvas which will represent the physical side of life or the spiritual beings in the ethereal area. This is the beginning motions of the painting. Upon this I apply multiple layers of paint to express the depth of the life we live in both the physical and spiritual simultaneously.