Centuries ago our ancestors painted on cave walls telling stories of their lives. These paintings are sometimes called pictographs.
Usually in January I do a rather scripted art challenge to kickstart my year. This year I refused to do that but chose instead to follow my intuition. What arrived was this series representing pictorially my love for and gratitude to the natural world. I worked intuitively, using my usual dye sublimation process, piecing together and cutting apart - reminiscent of quilting - which is a comfort to my heart. In the night it came to me (not all my night ideas are reasonable ideas!) to write poems to go with each. Having written them I am more inclined to call them word snippets as they do not reach the calibre of poems but they are perfect in their naivete. All in all this process was one of absolute and total gratitude and I hope that comes across as you view them.
I have intentionally left these pieces unmounted. They remain flexible and tactile. Imagine a piece of patent leather if you want a sense. They can be framed (no need for glass as they are varnished) or hung or set on a table as a mat. They can be cleaned with a wet cloth.
Usually in January I do a rather scripted art challenge to kickstart my year. This year I refused to do that but chose instead to follow my intuition. What arrived was this series representing pictorially my love for and gratitude to the natural world. I worked intuitively, using my usual dye sublimation process, piecing together and cutting apart - reminiscent of quilting - which is a comfort to my heart. In the night it came to me (not all my night ideas are reasonable ideas!) to write poems to go with each. Having written them I am more inclined to call them word snippets as they do not reach the calibre of poems but they are perfect in their naivete. All in all this process was one of absolute and total gratitude and I hope that comes across as you view them.
I have intentionally left these pieces unmounted. They remain flexible and tactile. Imagine a piece of patent leather if you want a sense. They can be framed (no need for glass as they are varnished) or hung or set on a table as a mat. They can be cleaned with a wet cloth.
Fox and Blue Moose
12" X 12" Canvas Sold "Fox and Blue Moose Met in the forest one day Fox did a fancy little dance And Moose just looked away" 
Frankie and Joe 11.5" X11.5" Canvas Sold "My name is Frankie And I ain't no good That there's my sidekick Joe You'll find us in the wildflowers Laying low." 
Good Night
11.75" X 11.75" Canvas Sold "It is night I am tucked in my bed Where are you You beautiful creatures? Do you have a place To lay your head?" 
Upon Entering
10.5" X 10.5 " Canvas Sold "You welcome me with your love songs... or so it seems." 
Everywhere Beauty
11.75" X 11.75" Canvas Sold "Are you kidding me? Buds springing from dry branches Leaves galore Hanging from trees and all over the forest floor. Are you kidding me? Beauty everywhere. I don't know if I can take it anymore!" 
Brown Bear
11.75" X 11.75" Canvas Sold "Don't be dissing brown, you hear? Brown - as basic as the earth and as mighty as the bear." 
Sun Drenched
12"X12" Canvas Sold "Raven of my heart You are light in your darkness And colour in your blackness You take your rightful place Among the sun drenched daisies." 
Longing and Loving
14" X 14" Canvas Sold "Wild geese - Do you know that you break my heart and mend it in one call?" 
"Your Majesty
14" X 14" Canvas Sold "I must remind myself that I too am a worthy inhabitant of this world, so overcome am I by your majesty." 
Needing You
13" X 13" $80.00 "If we were to go you would miss us, not one iota. But without you I suspect my soul would starve." 
You Make Me Laugh
13.5" X 13.5" Canvas $90.00 "When I laugh at you it is the overflowing of the pure joy you bring to my heart. It simply bubbles over." 
The Land's Dreaming
10.5" X 10.5" Canvas Sold "Sometimes Early in the morning While the land is still dreaming Everything seems soft And for a time I believe There is a chance for peace." 
Washed Clean
11.75" X 11.75" Canvas Sold "When the rain pours down do you scurry for shelter as I do or do you let the water wash you clean?" 
Great Fortune
11.75" X 11.75" Sold "When I get to see you I count myself among the most fortunate" 
Contented
"Contented to be a lost soul like you sweet bird. In a paradise!" |
Dear Heart
12" X 12" Canvas Sold "I look at you and I remember tender You bring out the gentle in me. Because of you I am kinder" 
You Fill Me Up
11.5" X 11.5" Canvas Sold "Strange how you feed me Like a hearty soup. Like a soulful poem You comfort me." 
My Pledge
11.5" X 11.5" Canvas Sold "I pledge to live my life with love for all the inhabitants of the earth." 
Grey Days
11.8" X 11.8" Canvas $60.00 "Sometimes we forget that we need the grey days and in the remembering is magic, pure and simple" 
A Few of My Favourite Things
12" X 12" Canvas Sold "These are a few of my favourite things Vistas and rivers And tall waving grasses Trees in their robes And cavorting foxes." 
Beauty Saves
11.5" X 11.5" Canvas Sold "To me, this is grace - unmerited favour. This natural world I see out my own eyes telling me again what it means to be saved." 
Gratitude's Song
"13" X 13" Canvas Sold "Mile after mile All I can do is smile. Beautiful world. My heart is bursting because of you. I am singing gratitude's song." 
Who Made the Moose?
14" X 14" Canvas Sold "Must have been a wild God Made the moose.. Thank you Wild God. Thank you Moose!" 
I Will Speak of You
14.5" X 14.5" Canvas Sold "I will speak of you often in my everyday as a reminder that we humans do not walk alone on this earth." 
Borderlands
14" X 14" Canvas Sold "Thanks to the lovelies who inhabit the borderlands who make me stop in my business and say "Oh my God - how sweet is that" and my heart overflows with love." 
The Moose and the Moon
"12 X "12" Canvas Sold "There should be a story about the moose and the moon - a poem or a song. Maybe I'll write one soon." 
Silent Seer
11.75" X 11.75" Canvas Sold "Silent seer - are you bothered by my antics? Your stillness is uncanny I suspect you see right through me, so uninteresting am I." 
Goodbye
12" X 12" Canvas Sold "Thanks for taking the time to say goodbye, binding earth and sky." 
Presence
12" X 12" Canvas $60.00 "When I behold your ways I see how much stock I place in tomorrow and how little in today." 
Green With Envy
11.5" X 11.5" Canvas Sold "May I make a confession? All my life I have envied you your wild ways." |
Note to Self
Your beauty, your elegance, your majesty, I will miss If I do not lift my eyes." 
Happy to be a Commoner!
"Like you sweet sparrow I am happy to be a commoner With the whole beautiful world before me." 
Simply Being
I love to awaken to your chatter When night has barely taken flight And already you are deep into the important business of simply being. 
Deer-ly Beloved
Your essence is "feather" Gentle and Light Upon the earth." |
To Sweetness
"To the delicate and fluttering The shimmering and glimmering The radiant and succulent That sweeten up our world." 
"I love your heaviness
Your solidarity with the land You will not be moved." 
Roamer
I know that it is not your nature to stay So to you I say "Stray Safe!" 
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"Glorious world
I know that you will teach me
I know that you will teach me...
In your time"
I know that you will teach me
I know that you will teach me...
In your time"
I Believe!
"If you, sweet world,
are divine,
I have become a believer."
"If you, sweet world,
are divine,
I have become a believer."