When Love Awakens

​"When Love Awakens - mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas, 20" x 20" x 1.25".  Ready to hang.  Available here and at Artfinder.

When love awakens in your life, in the  night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you.  Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self.  When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.  JOHN O'DONOHUE,  ​Anam Cara

The world is awakening...shops carefully opening, people venturing out.  Different paces in different places. If I set aside the worry monster (mine is rather gnarly and vocal), I can make a space to wonder if this is a rebirth for the way we all live together...I can see that love has awakened in our local community.  It makes me smile.

When Love Awakens

In the studio, week two of the e-course with Pauline Agnew awakened a love of new color palettes, new ways of seeing light and a courage to try even more outrageous things in the pursuit of art.  We aren't yet "elegant and in rhythm with our selves", but we are doggedly determined to make each lesson stick.  

In the park last week, we watched a mother swinging her child around and around in that helicopter way we used to swing our own children, recalling fondly the contagious laughter and the word "again!  again!" which all children know is the universal signal for halcyon glee.  As this painting emerged last week, my painter spirit whispered again again​ to the muse.

Something is brewing with this gang of goofballs....

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About the painting:  an archeologist would have a good long dig excavating this piece! Watercolor crayon, acrylic, gesso, artgraf and many, many layers of glaze.  I'm getting better and scribbling over a painting before I head to bed, then waking up and saying "oh!" and finding something wonderful in the scribbles.

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Malarkey and shenanigans are multiplying mightily in a new collaboration with the rascals featured in the image to the left. One week from today, something, well, something​ will be revealed.  (tiptoes away giggling behind her hands)

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