Look for New Beginnings

Each new sunrise brings with it new possibilities! A new dawn, a new day to do new things, to look forward! Releasing the past, she looks forward and sees more.

38 x 48, acrylic on canvas

36 x 38, mixed media

24 x 30, acrylic on canvas

36 x 38, mixed media

Blood connects all women. 

An ancient legend tells of an invisible Red Thread that connects all those who are destined to meet regardless of time, place or circumstance. Twisting, turning tangling, stretching but never breaking until those destinies meet. Each person is responsible only for their piece of the thread.

Unique connections. 

Women are connected in many ways….the most common is being/or having been in bondage of some sort under a patriarchy. Enslavement, Attempted Annihilation and Internment. One woman sometimes has the dubious privilege of being able to rise above the other three…hence the double face. No matter our cultures we are all Connected as women.

This image represents The Warrior Archetype of the Divine Feminine. She represents decisiveness and clarity of thought, selfless service, genuine humility, strength of experiential “knowing”, courage to do what is “right” even when it is a personal challenge to do so, maintaining and supporting established systems and forms without rigidity, loyal to a greater good beyond personal gain. She is selfless and maintains a warm, compassionate, appreciative and generous connection to all whom she serves. She fights “the good fight” in favor of benefitting the greater good and making life more fulfilling for everyone. The Warrior in her uses inner strength to push through and continue to fight for what she believes and wise enough to understand when to let go.

Transforming a life into a legend is a personal choice, not a default setting. One has to be Fearless (like a Warrior) in their choices. It doesn’t happen all at once. It is formed layer by layer and as it does courage and genius is revealed.

30 x 40, mixed media

What’s next?

Women who have left untenable situations or teens who have aged out of foster care systems have one thing in common…the question, ‘What’s next?’ They must prepare to go from survival mode into thriving mode. To see possibilities for themselves in spite of their circumstances.

24 x 30, mixed media

The Goddess of Prophecy, Protector of Women

This archetype uses her powers to divine an infant’s destiny and protects the child until that destiny is fulfilled in adulthood.

38 x 48, acrylic on canvas

Visionary: My Soul Work

I See Me represents The Visionary, the Wise Woman Archetype. She mines her fathomless intuitive wisdom and miraculously produces solutions and applications that forward advancement and resolutions of opposites, challenges and disparate circumstances. The Wise Woman brings an aspect of advocating “right action”. She quietly and deftly orchestrates and imparts wise counsel and intuitive direction that shifts the receiver into new possibilities and pathways that reflect “right action” for their life path. She is thoughtful and reflective and rests in her felt connection with Spirit and grounded connection with the earth, Gaia, the Source of her wisdom and intuition.

30 x 40, mixed media

Transforming Self

I’ve been emerging for decades but now my time has come! At 75 I am doing what I love to do….portraits. My dream is to continue to rise above circumstances, continue to transform and to teach others, women in particular, to acknowledge, accept and activate their innate creativity as a means of healing. At 75 I fully intend to do much more!!

28 x 30, mixed media

10 x 12, mixed media

Every Storm Comes to an End.

All women have a story. Memories that may be too painful to fully express. Through the act of creativity the energies of these memories from the stories can be moved and removed from the body where they hide deep in the cells. Painting used as medicine can be the tool used to help shift that energy and become very cathartic by allowing the painter to put all of their emotions onto the canvas. Catharsis represents a cleansing, a purification, the renewal and restoration that can occur when pent up or buried emotions are felt and released.

24 x 72, acrylic on canvas

You Are Not Alone

The choice to change is each woman’s to make. They get to choose to change how they live by changing the stories they tell themselves. They can re-imagine their lives.

24 x 30, mixed media

The Multitasking Deity!

Archetype of the “do it all” women. She is an ancestor, guide, river Goddess, controls weather, health, wealth, and a multitude of other things.

24 x 72, mixed media

Pregnant with Possibilities

Ala represents The Queen Archetype. Perhaps the strongest archetype yet the most overwhelmed with expectation and duty as the Queen (Mother). It is she who is the authority and stewardess of the “living space” and primary caregiver of progeny. It is the Queen who brings order and blessing, benevolence, fertility, balance, compassion, fairness and unconditional love. She is a nurturing, stabilizing and calming influence in all circumstances and supports the highest good and soul aligned fulfillment of those in her world. While The Goddess archetype is the Creatrix – inspiring vision and Imagination, The Queen births these into being and actively looks to their growth and prospering. The Queen archetype is the domain of material manifestation, family, “kingdom” (sphere of life influence), also material wealth and abundance.

30 x 48, mixed media

Don’t Judge Me

The difference between a flower and a weed is judgement. Each woman’s circumstances are different but they each want to paint a new picture, have a new vision for their lives.

24 x 30, acrylic

The Artist’s Taliswoman

This image represents The Priestess Archetype. The Priestess has a magical connection to the great mystery, the pregnant void, mother of all creation, source energy. She is a connector, a facilitator between the material and the spiritual, a mediator of powerful spiritual, psychological and emotional energies that make up who we are. The Priestess calls forth and directs energies between unconscious and conscious awareness, affecting our material and spiritual sense of well being. She is thoughtful and reflective having depth to her presence and intellect. She knows how to detach from inner and outer storms and how to connect her deep inner truths and resources with her grounded experience of life. She sees a higher possibility and attuned to its resonance. She is not easily influenced by others and brings grace, confidence, insight and power to difficult situations requiring change or… shifting.

30 x 40, mixed media

Soulfire – I Am Enough

This image represents The Divine Essence. The Goddess Archetype is the domain of spirituality, mystical experience and intuition. She emanates dynamic energy, flowing, ever changing with boundless intuitive wisdom and creativity. Her presence is inspiring and causes one to feel renewed – stimulated and revitalized.

I am enough, I am healed enough. I am complete. I am the earth, the stars and the waters of life… I can blossom where ever I am planted. All that I need is within me.

30 x 48, mixed media

Healing the Self

 A wound needs air in order to heal. We must talk about and expose those things which have hurt or harmed us in some way. Our wounds need nurturing in order to heal but we must first admit the wounds exist. We must carefully do what is necessary to help ourselves feel better.

27 x 27, mixed media

Forgiveness

Mary Magdalene was the first person, a woman, Christ appeared to after His Resurrection. When Christ called her name she then knew the fullness of forgiving Love.

27 x 27, mixed media