Walking in Faith

When I paint without a vision of where I'm headed, when I allow colour and water and feeling to carry me into the creation process that just "is", then paintings such as this one are born.


Surrounded by the haunting, meditational light of the knowing Moon, she steps the glowing waters in confidence and faith. Eyes are open, every muscle relaxed, no fear exists in her steps on the uncharted path.
When fear, hesitation, uncertainty hold us back from being strong and moving forward, just one trusting step at a time, with heart wide open, is all that is needed.

Beautiful Christmas!

Ancestral Memory

From a reference photo of a beautiful, but tightly restricted Andalusian, I began the careful work towards a faithful rendition, right down to the Spanish bit and foaming mouth, the flattened ears and the wild eyes. But as I worked, my thoughts turned to feelings of desire for freedom, for the toss of the wild windswept mane and the release of those hands from the reins. The American Paint Horse carries the blood of the Andalusian.

His ear on the far side has started to flick forward, the eyes softens as if to begin a dialogue.. the rein flies free into the air!
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"Sealskin, Soulskin 3 ~ The Gift" 2.5" x 3.5"

“We can live on land, but not forever, not without trips to the water and to home...”
This tiny baby seal represents to me the inner child, whose gift to us is insight, the ability to see beneath the surface of things.. to receive air without taking a breath..
Excerpt from "Sealskin Soulskin" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes':
" The boy scratched open the bundle and shook it out--it was his mother's sealskin. Oh, and he could smell her all through it... And as he hugged the sealskin to his face and inhaled her scent, her soul slammed through him like a sudden summer wind...
The child feared his mother will leave him. But, she filled her child's lungs with her own breath, and took him beneath the sea with her...)
“And they swam deep and strong till they entered the underwater cove of seals where all manner of creatures were dining and singing, dancing and speaking, and the great silver seal that had called to Ooruk from the night sea embraced the child and called him grandson.