and make sure I am really happy with it before letting it go out into the world.
This painting called Love, Joy, Beauty, Grace & Freedom had been hanging on my lounge room wall
for about 4 weeks when one evening my daughter who was lying on the lounge said she could see a face in the painting. I turned around to look at it and couldn't believe that it jumped straight out at me. I had painted
it about a month or so before I hung it and yet had never noticed it. Now the funny thing is, it's the first thing I see when I look at it.
This strange Neanderthal looking creature appears to be gazing off into the distance from the centre of the canvas, how did he get there, I certainly didn't "put" him there. I thought about painting him out, my daughter said to leave him! Is he a symbol of the evolutionary process, perhaps he's there to remind us that in many ways technology aside we haven't come that far. That in the context of the Universe our time on earth is relatively short.
For me it's a reminder that so much that appears in my work is not put there deliberately but is the result of being connected to Source. Tapping into the wisdom of the Universe and allowing it to work through me. When I look at many of my paintings I barely remember painting them. It's almost as if I turn up and they paint themselves. Sometimes when a painting isn't working I will begin painting over it, if I am "tuned in", at the time what began as destruction turns into something else completely. Before I know it by having the courage to "trash" a piece that I'm not truly happy with leads me to the Truth. Something moving and beautiful to my eye appears before me and I feel waves of sensation flowing from my head to my feet, then I know I'm on track.
I know my experience is not unique and many artists will tell you the same thing.
Painting, especially abstract painting is a mystery, it's definitely not logical and can't be planned.
I think for me it's a case of being in Allignment and then being receptive. I'm just excited to be a co-creator!
2 comments:
If you squint it's easier to see :)
I am very similar, in the way of having images of faces in my art. It is not deliberate it just happens. I feel the faces are those of spirit around us, like muses, guiding us.
Keep up your wonderful work and keep blogging. Love reading what you have to say.
Blessings,
~ Fiona ~
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