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Raven Knows
Raven Knows
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Auntie Moving the Moon Across the Sky
Auntie Moving the Moon Across the Sky
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Light Dancer at Chickaloon
Light Dancer at Chickaloon
My son and I were fortunate to stay with friends at their cabin in Alaska.
Amy described the northern lights in winter so vividly and wonderfully, I just had to paint it.
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Liminal
Space
Liminal
Space
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George
George
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Beyond the White Picket Fence
Beyond the White Picket Fence
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Fernando
Fernando
Fernando is a name of Spanish origin meaning daring, adventurous.
Fernando is a name of Spanish origin meaning daring, adventurous.
The look in his eye says it all.
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Finding Our Sisters
Finding Our Sisters
I used to work for an NGO (non governmental organization) helping farmers in Afghanistan.
While there, I heard a woman give a speech. All I remember is, "why have our sisters from around the world not come looking for us? We keep waiting and hoping. Where are our sisters?"
It is still with me years later, so I did this art about it. About our sisters in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, our sisters in Ukraine and Russia, our sisters around the world, across America and across the street.
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Glenn
Glenn
John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in February 1962.
Dog Glenn belonged to a childhood friend. He was a very good boy, and he could play the piano.
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Turbo Waddle
Turbo Waddle
Inspired by my grandson learning to walk.
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Dance of the Thunder Flower
Dance of the Thunder Flower
She dreams, and the sun rises,
She awakens, and the storm descends,
She stands, and the mountains tremble,
She steps forward, and the rain begins.
She moves, and the sunlight shimmers,
She spins, and the ocean laughs,
She pauses, and the trees listen,
She dances, and the lightning flash.
She jumps, and the moon changes,
She dips, and the windstorm soars,
She rises, and the tide surges,
She sings, and the thunder roars.
~ Poem by guest artist, "Auggie"
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Abigail
Abigail
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Thousand Year Old Woman
Thousand Year Old Woman
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Humpback Whales
Humpback Whales
These intellegent mammels migrate from Alaska to feed in the summer and back to Hawaii each year to give birth or mate...or maybe just to stay with the pod?
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Irrelephant
Irrelephant
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Falconry at Sunrise
Falconry at Sunrise
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Heidi's Dragonfly
Heidi's Dragonfly
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Wild Serene
Wild Serene
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Journey Bird
Journey Bird
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Violet and Friends
Violet and Friends
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Pretty Snail Shells
Pretty Snail Shells
I took a picture (ITAP) of these snails with pretty colors and patterns tucked into the recess of a rock beside the ocean.
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Secret Lives of Mermaids
Secret Lives of Mermaids
I sketched out this idea while my friend Anne and I spent a stormy week at Cannon Beach.
We had a wonderful time.
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Buzz's Ewa
Buzz's Ewa
The Iwa, or great frigatebird has a large black body, forked tail and 7 ½-foot wingspan.
In the Hawaiian language, ʻiwa means thief and refers to the way they "shakedown" other seabirds to steal their food.
Since the Iwa spends most of their time at sea, a sighting near shore can be an omen of stormy weather ahead.
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Rogue Waves...they happen
Rogue Waves...they happen
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Colorful Cosmos
or The Big Picture
Colorful Cosmos
or The Big Picture
...and son caught off-guard considering The Big Picture. (Just imagine that as a thought bubble over his head.) He promises not to stare at you like that if you meet him.
"The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time." ~ Simon Sinek
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Unfolding
Unfolding
"I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding"
~ John O Donohue
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Neo- Eclectic Ancestral Fish Totem
Neo- Eclectic Ancestral Fish Totem
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Bluefish and the Turtle Sage
Bluefish and the Turtle Sage
Click below for a short story by Auggie
Bluefish and the Turtle Sage (expand to read a short story by Auggie)
Bluefish and the Turtle Sage (expand to read a short story by Auggie)
Bluefish and the Turtle Sage
Bluefish and the Turtle Sage
Bluefish and the Turtle Sage swam through the Great Ocean one day as they often did. "Perhaps you have a story to share?" inquired Bluefish."Perhaps I do," replied the Turtle Sage "Have you heard the story of the three herrings and their search for Harnasabu'i?"
"I have not." replied Bluefish, "Will you tell it to me?"
"But of course," the Turtle Sage responded, "One day, three herrings, swimming along the shoreline came upon a great secret, a mythical land called Harnasabu'i where life thrived in more colors than ever existed and the land sang songs that were sung before even magic graced the land."
"Each wanted to be the first to find Harnasabu'i so each set out on their own in a different direction"
"The First Herring searched a thousand different places, saw a thousand different colors and listened to a thousand different songs; When the herring next reunited, the First Herring claimed that Harnasabu'i wasn't one place but an aspect of all places, and that the First Herring had found Harnasabu'i."
"The Second Herring shared the story with everyone they came across hoping that one could point them in the right direction. Though no one did, the Second Herring realized that the story now lived in many different people and that they helped each of them discover the idea for themselves; When the herring next reunited, the Second Herring claimed that they discovered it by teaching many people of the mythic land, and that Harnasabu'i would forever be known by people, one day would be found, and therefore the Second Herring had found Harnasabu'i."
"The Third Herring tried to imagine what Harnasabu'i would be like, and so they created many works of art, each depicting a part of Harnasabu'i. After a while, the Third Herring realized that perhaps Harnasabu'i could only be viewed through art and that Harnasabu'i had existed in their own heart and mind all this time. The Third Herring showed their art to the world and many people agreed that it was real to the Third Herring and now, real to them as well. When the herring next reunited the Third Herring claimed through their art that the Third Herring had found Harnasabu'i."
Bluefish pondered for a while, then asked, "Well, which one truly found Harnasabu'i? If any of them did that is."
The Turtle Sage only smiled.
"What a bunch of fools," stated Bluefish.
"Bluefish is wise" replied the Turtle Sage.
"What a bunch of magnificent, valiant, and heroic fools." Bluefish said after a moment's reflection.
"Bluefish is very wise." smiled the Turtle Sage.
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Two Thousand & Twenty
Two Thousand & Twenty
As a therapist as well as an artist, I am reminded of the saying; "art is a way of knowing".
After watching the news, feeling the weight and sadness of those most affected by the changes thrust upon us by corona virus, I walked into my studio in a fog.
Intuitively a painting emerged.
Fear and loss but also hope and growth cycle and swirl in a chaotic carnival that most of us have very little control over... thus we stand together,...by ourselves, as we face the changing world with hope and trepidation. ~ March 2020
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Meet one of my turtle friends
Meet one of my turtle friends
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Hippy Garden
(or, I just went to the art store)
Hippy Garden
(or, I just went to the art store)
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Red Herring
Red Herring
A "Red Herring" is a fallacy that distracts from the issues at hand by making an irrelevant argument... something that happens in politics a lot...
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Oh Brother!
Oh Brother!
Did this one with my brother. He drew a bunch of animals on a note pad, I chose a few and put it all together in photoshop.
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