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Tag: figure
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My moment with Titan
I wanted a painting challenge so I turned to the old masters. Titan’s “Woman with a Mirror” felt like a perfect fit for me; the subject’s main character energy was erotic and coy, the composition was easy enough to adapt to my needs, and the topic was something I could play with. I wanted to reclaim her. Titan had her as this vulnerable intimate inanimate. She was vain, looking at a mirror, distracted and blank. I wanted to explore the power of her bodice and chest…she is a fulsome figure. What if she ran the show? She’s probably exhausted by all the ridiculous attention she got. I liked that I could remove the odd man hovering over her and just allow her peace and relaxation on my zany background.
The canvas is hexagonal…look here at my first layer in progress:
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Ode to Michelangelo’s Libyan Sibyl
Nothing pleased me more than remembering the passion I share with Michelangelo for bodies and muscles. As this wonderful character…The Sibyl of the Libyan dessert…daughter with Poseidon and Zeus’s blood running through her….Painting this I felt as if I were sitting alongside the old master…I shared my works of progress with a dear friend of the craft. He marvelled at how fast I was attacking the canvas. I don’t take much time in planning, plotting, paint mixing…nothing really matters once I have momentum. I flow along in whimsical ignorance of the proper ways to paint. I enjoy breaking rules and not approaching things the same way every time.
As an oracle reader myself, I feel as if I am reclaiming her. She is MY story. Not a church story or a footnote for God (or the Gods). She is a whole lineage, a river of stories and talents that seeped into my own bones. Her gifts found roots in my heart. Oracles are greatly misunderstood, I could write a whole novel about it. But hear me now, the purpose of turning to an Oracle is not to ask how the seas will be as they carry you to your destiny…no no…they are to tell you of your own navigational brilliance and blunders. How to truly see yourself as you are and how you aim to be. The rest is up to you.
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Animals Within- Humming Bird Woman
I have a real strong love of birds. Especially hummingbirds, I mean those feathers are just the most flashy fantastical feature of the natural world. Prismatics are nature’s fireworks. And my love of connecting symbolic attributes to human forms…here’s where it get interesting. I know that we soar. We fly over situations, we rise above our fears and hubris, we sing and flock together. And those wings are there just as real as the love I have for our unbreakable spirits. What attributes do you love to dream up metaphors to?
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Venus
One thing that’s quirky about sharing the art online is you, the viewer, have no sense of scale. This whimsical floaty figure is about 10 cm big…or shall I say small?
What I like about it isn’t the way she looks as much as the way I feel when I look at her…and the way I think she may be feeling. Complete bliss. Completely inside herself.
In sky wisdom, a person’s Venus placement represents the expression of desire, how passion is expressed, what is valued, and how pleasure is experienced. It’s also about relationships and how we love. -
Young Lilith
There is a story as old as time. Of woman’s rebellion and refusal to be tamed. She is me. She is the moon and the shadows and the underworld and the fire of new dawn. She lives in my bones and my heart like a muddy shriek of primal protectiveness. But she won’t protect illusionary reality or what seems to be…she will burn standards and paradigms to the ground. Unleash your inner rebel, pretend the rules never existed, be wild be reckless, be feral and unpredictable. Look back into the abyss of her stare…if you dare….
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Slow Burn Panther Woman
A stalking shadow of ourselves is watching us. Always. This inner panther and prey dance. It reins terror for the faint of heart…making them jump and shrivel at their own form. Yet we the initiated, we the brave warriors of truth-telling and self-awareness, and how well we know ourselves! We know the depths and tunnels and slippery slopes of our hearts…A labyrinth that never stops unfolding. Of nature, unified earth consciousness, a slow rock groan and creak which has cave and eyeless water-monsters swimming in the pitch dark around amethyst points and glimmering fungal formations. As our minds undulate through caverns of darkness we emerge from time to time, muddy and full of jungle instincts. She is my inner panther woman and she goes SLOWLY through the night.
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Goddess of the Corn
One of the greatest gifts Mexico has given the world is corn. The other is chocolate. Anyways, of the first…corn…the most amazing amount of feminine deities and origin stories vortex around this amazing plant. The indigenous people who those stories belong to have full protective rights to those names, identities, and stories so I won’t do that here…do you own research loves. The point of my post to show much gratitude to how corn has touched me deeply, and you know I had the BEST time drawing her…this Goddess of the Corn. I drew her in a cafe of riots of colours, peoples, and energies. The Third Street Stuff & Coffee, owned and operated by Pat Gerhard of Lexington Kentuckyn is an oasis for anyone wandering through downtown Third Stree. What. A Babe….what a place. I feel like the fact I did it around Pat and her cafe (safe havens to all creatives and a haven to the people), adds a generous blessing and specialness to this gentle pen&ink drawing. I drew a version of her on Joydah’s popcorn stall once, as well as a wolf painting. It was a very lively and magical place too.
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Upcoming show all about relating to the body
Hey sweet one. I’m proud to say I am on a healing journey involving loving my body. Unconditional love. How radical is that? Well it is for me, because all my life I’ve felt the urge to FIX MY BODY, it was always too fat in my opinion. Doesn’t help that doctors also told me to lose weight EVERYTIME I went to the doctors no matter if I were there for a related to weight issue or not. Anyway the point of my story is that through the journey of radical self-acceptance I am now able to draw self-portraits. As an artist, I can tell you it is a GREAT AND IMPORTANT challenge to do self-portraits, they are a great exercise in subject/object perspective switching, great methods for processing how you feel about yourself, and an awesome story-telling tool. But I have always struggled with self-portraits because I saw myself as deeply flawed. I have always like my facial features and my boobs but NOTHING else. And now I love it all because it IS ME. It houses my spirit, it allows me to move through this world, it carries me and it carried my child…it is a vehicle for intense sensual joy and erotism…I mean it’s my magical wonderful body!! And now I’m doing a whole show with about 25% self-portraits in it! I. am. floored. And so excited to invite you to that show, you may have noticed the previous blog post, that’s my flyer. How cool is that?
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What exhibiting my art has done for me
Oh my goodness. In 2021 I started showing my artwork to the public. I haven’t done this since I was a teenager. What took me 20 years you may wonder?? Well for one I was terrified of rejection…also one gallery owner said my work was GOOD but “it wouldn’t sell here in this suburb so I really can’t show it”…also art school studio critiques KILLED my confidence. So I just never showed my work. I said “I’ll get the overies/bravery for this when I’m an old lady and couldn’t care less what people think.” Man I’m glad I met Rosa. Because she has this gallery space now, The Peace Palace…and she really encouraged me to show the work. The combination of her being my soul sister and huge believer in me, and her pure desire to see me grow gave me the COURAGE to just go for it. I was in safe hands. And my goodness did it feel amazing to treat myself like a real artist again. I promoted the show, I made artist statements, I did a live feed of the show for those in other countries..I mean I am just so much more solid in the fact that my art is worth sharing. What a game changer this is. So, I urge you creative souls reading this…be brave. Who cares if someone won’t get it, because someone else will and you will certainly be wiser and bolder for having put yourself out there. You get it babe. Get it.