My art speaks for itself, and as in most art, it is the power of the visual impact that gives it life and meaning.
Words are not really needed, but there are a few things I would like to add.
As I see it the intention of my pictures is to help us remember the love and freedom that is the core of our being, that we are multi -dimensional beings of light existing in many worlds simultaneously and we can develop within ourselves the ability to remember and function from this vastness and power of our spirit and bring heaven on earth into our lives.
The challenge is to clear enough of the limiting fears, social conditioning, addictions, pain, and abuse we have embodied and gather the clarity and strength necessary to let go of identifying with our personal history - who we think are- so we can lift the veils over our perception revealing the miraculous potential at our fingertips .
Inspired early in my life by the feeling of exisiting beyond the boundries of my body, I struggled to ground, live and grow in the so called "real world", so filled with the stresses and sufferings that are all around us and get inside of us. As I matured and grew in awarness I learned to embody the traits of a worrior and take the woundings of my heart, mind, body and soul and transform and transmute them to reach greater levels of understanding and perception and develop the skills to walk conciously in the worlds of nature and Self which is the guiding light of my art.
The beauty and abundant selfless giving of nature and the planet is humbling and a great guide and teacher to me. Growing up in the North West among the snow clad mountains and rich forests has been soothing and healing and opened inner doors.
To see and experience myself as the mountains, the sky, sun, rain, the eagle and hummingbird, as everything around me, feeling myself to be transparent as if the light of the sun was going right through me, sponteaneously finding myself infolded in a deep eternal place, expanded in the heart and connected to everything, as if touched by some angelic hand, has happened to me more then once.
I have had waking sober visions of a parallel life as a native american healer shaman in the Rocky Mountains who's name translates into "Visionheart", sitting befor a fire in my medicine lodge with many bundles of herbs and power objects.
At another time I experienced an altered state while atop a visionquest mountain in northern California of seeing through the eyes of a wolf, wild and free, at home with myself and my place in the universe, at peace with the rythems of life and death. And while walking along the beach of Puget Sound near my home I had a bald eagle circle above my head 3 times, so close that I could have touched it with a 10 foot stick.
Life is a quest to step beyond accepted assumed beliefs of what reality is and what we are. By the time most of us reach adulthood our awaeness has narrowed and many limitations and walls are in place, usually created from fear and pain ,and what we think is expected of us, defining our lives and awareness into small worlds of the safe and the known.
I am self taught as an artist, having no formal western education since high school, I found it easiest to play and experiment with soft and oil pastels and colored pencils . I now work in acrylics on canvas. It usually takes me several months to several years to make a painting. It took 12 years to create "Joy Embraces All". One month to make "Coming Home". I have so many ideas and inspirations that there really needs to be 5 of me to create it all.
I sense as many of us do that we are being offered opportunities to see more clearly and deeply into the nature of ourselves and our connection with everything, indeed that we are everthing we see and experience, that veils are being lifted, that many blessing await us as well as challenges in this time of planetary crisis.
Our future selves are calling us, calling us to remember the way we already know, the way we have already taken.
My many thanks to a great personal and spiritual mentor and teacher Almine, who's
presence, perceptions and levels of attainment have helped me understand, grow and transfigure beyond anything I have known or thought possible.
Life is truly becoming magical. "
Find out more about Almine at http://www.spiritualjourneys.com
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