Thursday, April 9, 2009

Inside the Belly of the Beast






So much going on inside my head, heart and studio.  My dreams at night are full of crowds of people.  Yesterday I couldn't paint fast enough to keep up with the flood of
creative energy that threatened to overcome me if I didn't get it on canvas!  I don't question anymore I just respond to the flow of feelings that comes bubbling up, if I start to analyze or think too much I get in the way of this process.  As I learn to trust myself more the paintings appear one after the other and have many things to show me as I humbly learn to paint from this inner place.  These are all works in progress and many I will paint over time and time again.  As you can see, my figure sketches are still on the wall and waiting to be integrated but for now I am back in the landscapes, trying to paint the collective heartbeat of the earth and all living things.  I can feel it so strongly at times.  Being in the city has been good for my work, there is so much vitality and energy that I never noticed before in an urban environment.  Out of fear we create illusory differences to separate us when really the same vibrant life force is pulsating through all of us everywhere. The unifying element is Love.

5 comments:

Stephen Gardner said...

Really beautiful paintings.

adrienne trafford said...

thank you for your nice comments on my blog! your work is very beautiful and moving...

i tried to "follow" your blog but am doing something wrong...when i figure out what the heck i'm doing i'll be sure to follow it!

i found this quote in your blog interesting "I don't question anymore I just respond to the flow of feelings that comes bubbling up, if I start to analyze or think too much I get in the way of this process" - i have been trying to do the same and have been very happy with the results - it's been very freeing!

thank you again and i look forward to watching your work...

Holly Friesen said...

as a friend of mine said to me yesterday, "spend the day in your heart, and move out of your head", it was a liberating day!

Carol Anne Strange said...

Thank you for visiting my blog, Holly.

I love your work and I also recognise the feverish need to create. Good to see you are going with the flow. There is no better place.

Jeannette StG said...

I love your first painting - so peaceful, yet mysterious! And you have a studio - yay, that helps:)Thanks for visiting my blog and for the follow!

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