New Work

This delicious Derek Walcott poem appears this month in the Purple Onion's newsletter compiled by Robert Seiler...and I love it. Poetry, good food, art, music all make this world go round. Despite the upheaval in the world, we must ground ourselves, and pay attention to the soul, to the spirit. I'm sharing this poem and others, including some of my own in this blog....please enjoy and find good energy!

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give Bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

--Derek Walcott

New Work: In Progress

This painting is in progress, 30" x 30" on linen...what started out as peaches transcended into apples...who knows where the road ahead will lead! I'm loving the rich, sensual colors. The three golden bars are part of an on-going series that are Jungian symbols for door hinges, a book opening to the metaphysical and more.

Update: August 2010 Well, this piece languished a while after I started it! It sat, and waited patiently...although I often have walked by it and loved the colors--so saturated and rich I could roll in them with abandon. The apple is GONE. I have painted over what was precious! Oh my! My intuition kept poking me about this...so I finally did it. What will come next? Hmmmm...how do you like those apples?

Joni Mitchell, from Clouds

"...Something's lost
but something's gained in living every day."

New Work: Esto Perpetua

Esto Perpetua: The landscape of the soul...

Artist Statement

Art, like writing and poetry, for me is an expression of the soul…the deepest self, where time and place do not matter…I am on a higher plane when creating. There is intense spirit and energy in my hands—often I do not know where I will take my painting—I am influenced by color, by thought, and by the natural world around us. I see nature as spiritual and symbolic—and seek to speak the unknown, to convey the unseen. My work is based on intuition, and what feeling I am attuned to at the moment. I feel the world intensely, both the ‘outer’ world, and most of all, the natural world: which is deeply connected to my inner world. The natural and inner world are more important to me.