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From the Beginning – a New Painting

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Doesn’t it feel great to get back to something you love doing but haven’t done in a while? What is that for you?

Although I’m a professional artist, I don’t always paint as much as I’d like. I hadn’t painted since May!

When July rolled around, I started work on a Soul Energy Portrait Experience for a client.

As is my custom, I used any leftover paint from each step of that process to begin a new painting on the side.

Then, about 4 layers in, this painting started taking on a life of its own.

It called to me through visions and extensions of the energy work I was doing for my client.

And that’s how “From the Beginning” came into being – inspired by the energy flowing through me in the service of someone else.

Then, the hours and hours of dot therapy – a form of meditative prayer – infused this painting with extra layers of high vibrational goodness. Can you feel it through the heart-warming and lower chakra nourishing colours?

From the Beginning

SOLD

As the mighty oak tree is already present in the acorn, so is unconditional love already present in our hearts and souls.

Our job as spiritual beings having a human experience is to allow that Love & Light germinating at our core to sprout, grow, flow, and blossom with the dawning of each new day.

Be it in relationship with yourself or with others,
May that love grow
May your love flow
May you be and do love
Rooted in the rich soil of your inner work
Connected to Source and All That Is.
And may you meet, along your path,
The love of one who chooses to grow with you
Learning together the many ways in which
Unconditional Love can manifest in relationship.

This is my prayer for you.
This is my prayer for me.

So be it. So I let it be.

“From the Beginning” (20″ x 24″) – SOLD
Acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas. No framing required.

 

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The Layers of Life

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“The Journey: All the Way Home to My Self”

You’re a work of art! Did you know that?

I didn’t say a piece of work… I said a work of art.

Who you are now is a result all your layers of experience from this lifetime and beyond.

They’re what brought you here. They’re the reasons you have the gifts you have to share. They’re why you have the compassion, understanding, perspectives, tools, skills & inner resources to be and do YOU!

As I share in the creative layering process for both my intuitive painting and photography, I invite you to honour the many layers of your life that make you who you are today: your experiences, challenges, blessings, relationships, dreams, etc.

Whether it be in intuitive painting or photography, the final art piece is infused with the energy, symbolism, texture, and colour of the layers that came before it.

Keep reading to discover the parallels between intuitive art & your life.

The Layers of Intuitive Painting

I paint in layers. Some paintings have 20 layers of paint on them. The creative process is as important, if not more so than the final piece.

I sometimes start with a vision I receive for what a painting wants to become, but I often have no idea. I just paint, following the flow of inspiration, layer by layer.

This asks me to:

  • embrace the mystery
  • let go of expectations
  • accept what is
  • be in the present while pulling from my experiences and skills set
  • enjoy the process.

Each layer, with its intentions, flow & designs, interaction with previous layers, happy accidents, channeled energy work, or misperceived disasters, helps shape what’s to come.

Here are but a few of the layers in the creation of: “The Journey: All the Way Home to My Self” – you can see all of them and close-ups in the blog post on its creation.

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In the end, the piece has a depth of texture, colour, energy, and meaning that goes beyond what the eyes can see. It’s a portal from the process to the Universal Energy Flow. This, I believe is why healers and spiritual seekers have long since been called to my work.

The Layers of Intuitive Photography

I use a similar process when I create the Visual Gifts for Divine Storytelling Time clients – these are a unique and empowering self-study intuitive reading package created at a distance to help you tune into your intuition and take inspired action in your life.

After channeling your soul story for about an hour, I am intuitively guided by your Team of Divine Helpers and mine to pull photographs from my vast collection of images from around the world.

Each of these holds additional symbolic or energetic clues for the client to explore on their Intuition into Action Treasure Map.

Together, these photographs hold the essence of their story and act as a visual portal to move them forward on their Path to their Highest Good. As I manipulate the layers digitally, I create a custom piece that the client can have printed up to wall size – with or without the affirmation.

For example, this client’s Visual Gift was created using 6 layers from 4 photographs (2 repeated with different effects):

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  1. a stone angel holding a tray with a shell necklace and a bigger shell in the middle;
  2. a strong perspective line of towering palms leading up to the Kalachakra Stupa in the Paleaku Gardens Peace Sanctuary in Hawaii;
  3. a nightlight in the bathroom that changed colours, attracting a beautiful moth
  4. on the way back from a ceremony in Bali, a picture of a street market through the rain splattered windows of the car

The final result is something new & unique, only possible with the meaningful and colourful layers of what came before it. It’s a work of art inspired by the client’s life and his / her Divine Storytelling Time guidance.

Your Life is a Work of Art

Can you see now how your life is also a work of art?

Sure, it may have had an awkward teenager phase or layers you’d rather scrub off.

But in truth, every layer is a gift.

It’s just about learning to look at each layer through the eyes of your soul, through the eyes of Source to see how each has added the necessary energy, texture, colour, and gifts to what is opening up to you now.

Please allow yourself to see that and to stay open to what the next layer is calling you to co-create.

You’re a work in progress – perfect in your imperfection – and the creation of this masterpiece won’t be over until it’s over.

Happy co-creation!

Oh – and feel free to comment below on how this post has helped you see with new eyes.

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Horsing Around – Emergence, the painting

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“Emergence” (9″ x 12″) SOLD

What would you do if you had a week to horse around?

What lights up your fires of passion, play & purpose?

How can you do more of what uplifts you?

Making time for play and for giving to yourself is key to health & happiness.

It doesn’t mean you have to make it your channel for income as I have with my full-time art & intuitive play, but it does mean making it a priority.

So pause for a moment and ask yourself “What do I love to do that I haven’t done in a while?“.

Then take out your schedule make a date to add more play into your life – and more of the people, places, actions, objects that hold that essence for you.

Horsing Around in the Studio

Paint has long been my playmate & teacher. I was self-taught for the first 20 years or so, discovering my voice and my passion through play.

Intuitive painting is very freeing because you don’t know where you’re going when you start.

Layer by layer, you allow the painting to become what it wants to be. Do you want to try?  Check out my free Guide to Intuitive Painting.

Intuitive painting is an opening for me to embrace the mystery and channel energy, imagery, and whatever personal development lessons the process has in store for me and my clients.

Emergence

This painting, “Emergence” came into being while I was a student in Derek Rydall’s Awakened Wealth Mastery Course. 

Personal development is also one of my passions, my play, and my work.

I’d been staring at the background for a couple of months, unsure of what would emerge from it.

Then, as I re-connected to a deeper truth, strength, freedom, joy, and abundance, the horse emerged from the fire – first in my mind’s eye and a week later, on canvas. 

As a Fire Horse (in Chinese Astrology), 2018 is the year for me to make peace with myself. So be it! So I let it be.

No more thinking small. No more playing small. No more undervaluing myself and my work. Instead, I emerge into yet another layer of potential that has always been there – an indomitable spirit of creativity, beauty, and love.

Our potential is inherent. It’s always been there!

What About You?

What gifts, talents, skills, passion are aching to come out if you would only give them space and time to shine?

They have so much to teach you about being who you truly are.

It’s not about improving, fixing, healing, controlling or manipulating anything or anyone.

It’s about allowing your truth to emerge, to make you free.

You’re like no one who has ever existed. Your gifts are precious.

Your passion, play & purpose – your happiness – brings a smile to the face of the planet and beyond.

So keep focusing on what brings you joy. Get hooked on your own passion, play and purpose.

And ask the Universe for the channels to allow these to emerge more fully in your life.

You’re worth it. We deserve it! We deserve you!

May you too emerge more fully into yourself this year.  

If you need a reminder of the power and potential that has always existed within your core and need the energetic support to allow it to emerge, this painting’s for you!

“Emergence” – 9″ x 12″ (SOLD)
Acrylics on canvas. No framing required. 

On a Side Note

Have you spent hours watching clips of “The Voice”, “The X Factor” “Britain / America’s Got Talent”, etc. on YouTube?

In my efforts to reduce the number of hours I spend on Netflix, I’ve started treating myself to shorter inspirational blasts of these talent shows.

Wow! It’s so moving to see people who’ve discovered their passion and want so badly to express and share it.

These people aren’t horsing around.

They’re emerging into their truth, their gifts, no matter their conditions. It’s sooooo beautiful!

I join in the applause for these bullied kids, dreamers, cancer survivors, burn victims, grief-stricken souls, and determined spirits.

These shows are doing so much for them and for us – our lives are enriched by holding a space for their emergence.

To be honest, I haven’t watched the clips entitled “most stupid”, “embarrassing”, “most rude”, etc. I’ve focused on witnessing examples of overcoming challenges and dreams coming true.  I’m hooked!

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May your story & mine also inspire others to emerge more fully into the amazing being they already are.

What’s 1 gift that’s emerging in your life these days. Please share in the comments below!

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Visualization Vibration Radiation (VVR) Painting

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unconditional love vibration radiation VVR painting

The beauty of unconditional giving – of love, respect, attention, support, etc. –  is that it returns to you manifold through the Universe’s many channels. That’s the Law of Compensation. As long as you’re not giving to get…

Inspired by a vision I receive when doing Derek Rydall’s  Visualization Vibration Radiation (VVR) meditation,  this painting celebrates the unfoldment of unconditional love within the couple relationship.

It’s about truly seeing, accepting, and loving your partner – wishing for his/her happiness without expecting anything in return. To learn more about this, I strongly recommend the books by Dr. Greg Baer of RealLove.com .

Does this painting speak to you? It could be because you’re committed to emerging into your inherent potential as an individual while sharing a path & vision with an equally committed partner.

The energy work involved in creating this piece is a continuation of what I channeled earlier this year in “A Return to Love“.

As they say, “Where attention goes, energy flows“.

Opening to Love

Doing the VVR meditation reminded me of elements of my ideal life I’d been ignoring – focused instead on my personal development and the growth of my career as an artist & intuitive.

What can I say? I’m happy alone.

And I’ll be happy when I meet the man who matches that vibration and also wants to focus on being in an increasingly unconditionally loving relationship.

But this doesn’t mean that the painting is meant to stay with me.

My joy / manifestation was in its creation. Once birthed, it’s meant to nourish more than one person’s transformational journey.

The Painting Elements

Reflection

The couple’s reflection in the window shimmers in evidence of the manifestation of the potential radiating from our very being, our dreams, and our Highest Vibration.

It’s more visible in some lights than others due to a special paint I use – also symbolic.

Nautilus

The radiating sun over the ocean, shaped like the ancient nautilus shell, symbolizes our unfolding, our growth, our evolution – as individuals and within our relationships.

Emerging from the centre of the Universe, its warmth energizes our expansion, our movement, our spiritual evolution – from the inside out and the outside in.

It’s also representative of Source Energy, of God, of the movement into and out of Divine Mystery.

Water

As for the ocean, I’m just a water baby. I need it. It nourishes me in body, mind, and spirit.

Water is a universal symbol of fertility, purity and higher wisdom.

No, I don’t want to get pregnant. But relationships are fertile grounds for growth, for love.

Water also speaks of blessings, intuition, reflection & transformation. Its’ a symbol of movement, of circulation – the ebb & flow present in the rhythms of life and relationships.

As this couple stands within the home they’ve built for themselves, their love reflects the beauty and magnificence of all there is – past, present & future.

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unconditional love vibration radiation VVR painting

Title: Visualization Vibration Radiation” (VVR)
Year: © 2018
Size:  18“ x 36 “ ( 45.72cm x  91.44cm)
Artist: Dominique Hurley
Materials: Professional acrylics & channeled energy work on gallery-wrapped canvas with painted edges. No framing required. 
Genre: intuitive painting, visionary art, energism art, spiritual art, inspirational art
Price: $2,267 CA  – purchase here

Prints available in many sizes & mediums.

 

 

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What’s Your Mini Delight?

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You’re likely not a stranger to busy times. What’s important is that you make the time for a mini delight even in those hectic periods: short uplifting breaks that raise your vibration and nourish soul.

What are your mini delights? What people, places, activities, or objects awaken in you the feelings you love to feel?  How can you bring more of these into your life?

If you can’t spend a whole day with your BFF, grandchild, or parent right now, make a call or write a letter. Connect and add a smile to your heart.

If you can’t take a trip to your favourite destination, take a 5-minute video or photo album break.

If you can’t go shopping for a new dress, wear your favourite one, even if it’s to clean the house.

Trust me. Making the time for a mini delight will do wonders for your productivity, your effectiveness, your mood, your life!

My Mini Delights – Photography & Paintings

April has been the busiest month in years for me. When I wasn’t leading or speaking at one of many public events, I was preparing for these. It’s been amazing on so many levels!

But I haven’t had much time to paint or take as many nature photo walks as I like / need to.

Instead of dedicating full-days or even half-days to my photography and painting, I’ve been taking mini delight breaks.

Here are a few photos from short breaks in my backyard this month. I’m blessed to have a river to play with.

And here are a few from my walk to an appointment. Instead of borrowing my housemate’s car, I left an hour earlier and walked there, getting my exercise, fresh air, and photography bliss.

Can you believe that some of these mini delights came from a big ugly green plastic spout in a hillside gutter? And the others from a tiny creek I was drawn to by the trickling music of water. I had to precariously perch myself on unstable river stones and lean through the branches and barbed wire, but oh what fun!

And here are the mini delight paintings I’ve had fun creating lately. They’re only 5″ x 5″ and so conducive to short painting breaks.

Some have already found homes, but contact me if you’d like one for yourself or a Mother’s Day gift. 

Purple Petals (5″ x 5″) – SOLD

A happy little celebration of Spring.

Passion (5″ x 5″) – SOLD

If you look closely, you’ll see the 3D sparkly paint: a mix of wild & classic elegance.

Listen In (5″ x 5″) – SOLD

This conch shell is a symbolic reminder to pause, and to hear the echoes of your intuition, of your heart calling you onwards and upwards in your life. The shell is covered in glass beads, refracting the light, you Light.

Unfolding (5″ x 5″) – SOLD

This one’s a celebration of the natural evolution of the soul – an opening and emergence of who you truly are.

Daisies 1 & 2 (5″ x 5″) – Sold

These were the first created and purchased to celebrate a blossoming long-distance relationship. One hangs in each of their homes.

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A Return To Love – Painting & Vision

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A Return to Love - Mermaid & Merman spiral / circle painting

“A Return To Love” – keep scrolling for more photos.

The energy still emanating from the painting “A Return to Love” supports those wanting to manifest or deepen a loving couple relationship. Is that you?

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Focusing on the vision of your ideal life is an important step of the manifestation process.

By first imagining the various aspects of your ideal life (relationships, career, environment, social/recreational time, health, etc.) you put yourself in the  feeling state of that being, doing & having.  You’re increasing your vibration and sending your wish list to the Universe through your feeling state.

I knew that.

The added layer that Derek Rydall has added in the course work I’m doing in his Awakened Wealth Mastery program is to then let go of the details of the vision to amplify the feeling tone – ten times, fifty times, a hundred times… Really feel it!

By letting go of the details and focusing on amplifying the feeling, you allow yourself to trust that the Universe will respond with people, opportunities, etc. that match the amplified feeling tone. They’ll likely be even better than you originally imagined.

As Derek explains it, it’s about giving in, surrendering – of

“letting go of control or ego agendas, of struggling to make things happen and allowing something new and more to emerge, to be welcome. It’s about resigning from being the manager of the Universe and becoming an employee, a servant of it. It’s about letting go of the will.”

Envisioning The One … or the Next One

When doing Derek’s meditation, I’m no longer single.

I’m sharing life with the ideal-man-for-me and our cat & dog in our beachside home doing the work we love. Our intent is to grow more into the unconditional love we already are at our core with ease, grace, and joy.

In this vision, we were already vibrating high when we met and help raise each other higher through our commitment to our own and each other’s happiness.

I’ll spare you all the details, only to say that the feeling of it is wonder-full. When amplified, it’s divine! It takes my previous 2 long-term relationships to a whole new level.

In the past 7 years as a happy single, I’ve been focused on my art, my business, and my personal development.

It’s time to bring the romantic partnership energy back up from wherever I buried it.  My first step is to feel it and paint it.

A Return To Love – Painting in the Feeling Tone

Painting has always been a way for me to live in my feeling tone – to stay connected with my Higher Self and team of Divine Helpers for long periods of time, raising my vibration.

So I decided it was time to co-create a new couple painting.

The only 2 couple pieces I’ve painted since my return to Newfoundland were both in 2015: Side by Side and Divine Union .

Since then, that energy’s been on the back burner. It wasn’t on purpose. I was just too busy working at home or attendeding women-only events.

So here’s “A Return to Love” the first of what may be a new series featuring couples / partnership energy.

“A Return to Love” celebrates the union, or re-union of the divine masculine & feminine within ourselves and the couple.

Their movement towards each other is propelled by love & compassion (mica energy used in the scales on their tails).

This painting invites you to be in ideal partnership – to dance in the deep emotional pools for the natural evolution of your souls.

The Tibetan or Chinese turquoise is reported to add the energy of prayer to its subject. It’s a bringer of natural good fortune, fidelity & protection. It’s also a good stone for clearing the Throat Chakra – for self-expression. It supports the desire to be real, to be authentic in all you are, do, and have together.

As you’ll see in the photos, the figures appear white from one angle but are iridescent pink / blue from another. This encourages you to reveal and unconditionally love each others’ true colours in the fertile waters of relationship.

May “A Return to Love” also help you to manifest your ideal partnership – either with someone new or within your existing relationship.

Title: A Return To Love – SOLD
Year: © 2018
Size: 24″ x 24″ (61cm x 61cm)
Artist: Dominique Hurley
Materials: Professional acrylics & channeled energy work, mica & Tibetan turqoise on gallery-wrapped canvas with painted edges. No framing required. 
Genre: intuitive painting, visionary art, energism art, spiritual art, inspirational art

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Spirit Song Painting & Guided Meditation

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Spirit Song whale painting with Derek Rydall Quote

My heart swells with love as I share these Spring Equinox / Easter gifts with you.

May they encourage you to sing your Spirit Song, blessing your own life and the lives of all those around you.

“Spirit Song” – the painting

“Spirit Song” is part of a growing series of paintings inspired by the great ocean that surround the island of Newfoundland, where I live.

It calls you to rise up from the depths to move upwards & onwards, creating momentum in your life.

When you raise your vibration, you align with your Higher Self, making it possible to connect and communicate with your team of Divine Helpers.

The energy infused into this work encourages you to emerge from the winter more fully as your Self.

On a side note, have you ever seen a humpback whale up close?

I was blessed to have this experience while in a zodiac a few summers ago. I found out that the bumps on their nose are called tubercles. They contain hair follicles. I include a few photos I took in the album below.

“Spirit Song” (12″ x 18″) – SOLD
Acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas – no framing required.

Sing Your Spirit Song” – the meditation

“Sing Your Spirit Song Meditation” is a guided creative visualization I channeled to help you connect to your Light.

I’d asked my Facebook Friends what they needed support with.  I was then honoured to be used as a channel for Spirit to work through me.

Take 45 minutes in your day to close your eyes and be fully present in this participatory exercise.

May it open you up to the clarity & courage to sing your Spirit Song into the world.

You’ll:

  • raise your vibration,
  • melt away your obstacles,
  • see with the eyes of your soul,
  • and connect to the Guidance you need to transform 3 specific challenges in your life.

“Thank you so much! What a beautiful gift! I got some interesting insight that is helping me release the Winter and accept the positive as I accept my right work.” ~ Carol Galloway – San Diego, CA

P.S. If you’d like me to channel a meditation specifically for your needs, click here.

The background music, “Adrift Volume 2” is one of the new royalty free tracks I purchased from Christopher Lloyd Clarke to support your journey. I trust you’ll enjoy it.

 

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Unlocking the Gifts of Your Shadows

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Unlocking the Gifts paintingThis new painting was inspired by a course I’m taking with Derek Rydall – have you heard of him?  Read on for the full story of how you too can unlock the gifts of your shadows using his process.

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I love so much about the life I’ve designed for myself, but the lack of income in the past year was taking its toll. Hard work wasn’t resulting in increased sales and the “why bother?!” soundtrack was getting louder in my head & heart.

I’d asked my team of Divine Helpers to point me in the right direction. “What’s my next best option to have a more fruitful career as an artist & intuitive?”

Part of living an intuitive life is realizing when you’re off track and need help. For me to continue inspiring others to connect and be true to their Higher Self, I had to admit that I too needed inspiration.

Everything pointed to the need to go deeper within to see what was sabotaging my financial success. I knew better than to blame the local economy or anything outside myself.

When the student is ready, the teacher appears. This time, he showed up in the form of the spiritual visionary and thought leader, Derek Rydall.  I’d never heard of him, but the 4-hour recording my friend sent me started shifting thing in both my inner and outer reality.

That was sign enough that my request for guidance had been answered. So I invested in his Awakened Wealth Mastery 9-week live program -“to create a life of sustainable wealth in every area regardless of the conditions”.

It’s already been fruitful! In week 1 alone, I listened to over 20 hours of audios while painting. Perfect!

This painting, “Unlocking the Gifts” was inspired by Derek Rydall’s Shadow Process, which you too can experience for free on his website.

Derek Rydall – Shadow Process

You’ll grow as a result of Derek’s 30-minute Shadow Dancing Meditation.

It’s all about embracing your shadows and unlocking their gifts.

It asks you to look at the area of your life that you feel most stuck in – that you want to grow the most in. Then you’ll be lead in a process that helps you identify:

  1. your shadow
  2. when it was created
  3. how it helped you grow – its gifts
  4. its message for you now
  5. specific action steps to take to help it feel loved, safe, validated & supported

I was amazed at the results this morning.

One shadow really caught me by surprise. Somewhere along the way, I learned that getting rewarded for my gifts was unspiritual. I had no idea I believed that on any level since on a conscious level I see money as just a part of the energy flow. Very very interesting…

The beauty with this process is that by embracing your shadow, you unlock its gifts (the reason for the spiral in my painting). It’s not about battling it or hating it. It’s all about love!

Funny Story

My Divine Helpers kept playing with me once the Shadow Process was done.

As soon as the audio finished playing in my iTunes, a random song from my music collection started. It was “Sweet Dominique” by Adam Cohen. It’s a rather sexy song with the lyrics “I didn’t know that we could go so many kisses deep, Sweet Dominique”. After going so deep in my shadow process, I felt so acknowledged and loved when hearing this song! The timing made me laugh!

Then, when I went into our class Facebook Group to share this story, I explained that the “Dominique” song I’ve been hearing my whole life when I introduce myself to others is the Singing Nun version about a poor religious brother called Dominique. In the English lyrics, it says:

“Dominique, nique, nique, over the land he plods
And sings a little song
Never asking for reward
He just talks about the Lord (x2)”.

So yeah – the message about blessed poverty was deeply ingrained. He was poor, but he was happy and doing God’s work. I’d like to be happy no matter what, and although I choose simple living, I’m not interested in being poor.

What do your shadows have to teach you? What gifts are waiting to be unlocked? Try his meditaiton to find out.

Unlocking the Gifts – the painting

“Unlocking the Gifts”. (12″ x 18″) – SOLD
Acrylic, glass beads & aventurine on gallery-wrapped canvas (no framing required)

1) Seahorse: The seahorse is a symbol of Curiosity, Patience, Protection, Perspective, Persistence, Friendliness, Contentment, High-Perception, Generosity/Sharing.

2) Spiral: symbol of evolution, holistic growth, release & connection with the Divine,

3) Aventurine: While creating the background, I was working with Gabriel, archangel of water, of emotion. I embedded a green aventurine, the “stone of opportunity” that helps harmonize body & mind as it releases toxic emotions. It supports your efforts to reconnect to the wealth that you already are.

P.S. While creating it, I was also reminded of The Work by Byron Katie. Turn It Around: each turnaround is an opportunity to experience the opposite of what you originally believed.

 

 

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An Oceanic Trio of Paintings

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Does the ocean call you? Are you, like me, a water person?

Then you’ll enjoy this oceanic trio of paintings, the results of my first experimentation with a new professional pouring medium that gives added dimension to the watery effects of fluid acrylics.

I thought it’d be easy since I’ve been playing with acrylic washes since the 80s … but if you keep scrolling, I’ll let you in on my humbling creative process.

First though – enjoy the results. These paintings looks great side by side as they’re all 12″ tall.

Which is your favourite?

 

Aperçu – The Glimpse

(9″ x 12″) – SOLD

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Is this magical creature being given a glimpse into the very core of Mother Earth – the fires of its origins, of the past? Or has it been shown an opening to a new path illumined by the celestial sun?

There’s an energy of curiosity in Aperçu (the Glimpse). It’s that fear mixed with excitement that comes from moving into the unknown. It’s an invitation to embrace the mystery & grow. 

The sea horse is also a symbol of patience, protection, perspective, persistence, friendliness, contentment, high-perception, and generosity.

What other meanings are you feeling here?

Acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas. No framing required.

9″ x 12″ – $SOLD

Into the Depths

(12″ x 16″) – SOLD

This majestic humpback whale invites you to dive deep into the depths of your Self to rediscover your flow – your magnificent essence. It beckons you into a journey of ease & grace as you say YES! to the self-discovery that connects you to the Oneness of all that is.

The whale is also symbolic of:

  • deeper awareness
  • cosmic consciousness
  • emotional rebirth and understanding
  • nurturing community
  • appreciation for beauty
  • balance 

Acrylics on gallery-wrapped Canvas. No framing necessary.

“Into the Depths” -SOLD

Momentum

(12″ x 12″) – SOLD

Jellyfish don’t move by themselves. Their momentum is influenced by a greater presence with which they are at one – the winds of the seas. They’re guided by Mother Nature to survive and thrive.

This jellyfish is a reminder that for you to thrive, you need to live in harmony with Nature, knowing that you don’t have to do anything on your own. You too can connect to Source Energy to be guided to move with ease & grace.

Jellyfish are also a symbol of love, intuition, faith, balance, sensitivity, and flexibility through challenges.

Acrylics on gallery-wrapped Canvas. No framing necessary.

“Momentum” – 12″ x 12″ – SOLD

The Spirit of Exploration

The painting studio is my sanctuary – where I go to connect with Spirit and play.  But it’s also a science lab – where I experiment with new materials and techniques to achieve desired effects.

The trick is to stay in sanctuary mode when the science experiments fail.

You see, I was excited when I found out that my professional acrylic paint companies had developed pouring mediums that would enhance the effects I was already achieving with fluid acrylics.

I expected instant success.

My growth challenge was to remain in a state of inner peace even when hundreds of dollars of supplies seemed to be going to waste.

Plus the sticky messes that covered my studio needed days to dry before I could use the space to try again.

My desire to dive deep into the creative flow was stumped by delays, frustration, and scarcity mentality.

Can you relate to the humbling feelings of becoming a beginner again?

It’s all part of the growing process. You stretch through trial & error. There are no failures – just learning.

Having an open heart and positive mindset are key to the creative process.

The trick is to invite your Higher Self and Spirit in and to keep the ego and fear out of it.

Once I’d accepted that my investment in these expensive art supplies were an investment in play & learning, it all flowed so much easier.

The backgrounds you can see now in this oceanic trio are the 3rd thick layer of  pouring medium mixed with fluid acrylic colours. Each colour has a different density or weight, affecting how they interact when they’re poured together and slowly shift over time. You have some control, but there’s lots of room for surprise.

Once I’d co-created a look that pleased me, the creatures appeared in my mind’s eye – leading to days of that meditative painting and dot-making bliss that nourishes my soul.

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Leslie’s Soul Energy Portrait

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Leslie's Soul Energy Portrait

The co-creative process behind Leslie’s Soul Energy Portrait was different than my usual client experiences.

Leslie Bridger, also known as the Wizard of Awe, is both a very good friend and a collaborator in events/ workshops.

She’s also been a big supporter of my art since we met, periodically adding to her collection and organizing a fundraiser for my Visionary Art Scholarship Fund before I headed to Vienna to study in 2013/14.

She’d long talked about commissioning a piece when the time was right. That time revealed itself late last fall.

“I had this sense – a vibrational message from the Universe – that you needed to create this painting for me at the end of 2017 to keep me grounded in and connected to all that I am.  I knew it would help me align with the bigger energy of 2018 and encourage me to take the courageous actions I needed to take this year.”

Unlike my usual Soul Energy Portrait Experiences (in which I channel an opening meditation, receive visions, do energy work, and send daily love letters) this one was based on three symbols Leslie received during a Steve Nobel meditation we listened to together at the beginning of a business meeting.

Once we’d finished the meditation, she told me about the infinity symbol, a heart, and a figure with her arms in the air and asked me to create a painting that incorporated all three.

Like with most of my paintings, there are so many layers of paint, symbolism, and energy here.

One day, when I wasn’t even planning to paint, I went to the studio to do my yoga, but it called me so strongly I found myself deep within the process for over 10 hours… and never did my yoga. I couldn’t keep up with the instructions I was intuitively receiving, yet also felt so calm, relaxed, and meditative.

In addition to the symbols that Leslie asked me to work with, I could feel the influence of Steve Nobel’s mediations. He invites the powerful energies of archangels and of the transformative grids of both ascending light from earth and descending light from the heavens.

These energies are present in the initial layers of patterns that can still be seen through the figure as well as the thousands of iridescent dots surrounding it. It’s a reminder that we are not separate from all that is. It is a part of us and we of it.

When Leslie saw it almost completed, she just stood there in silence for the longest time and then said:

“Wow, Wow, Wow!  I’m in awe. I just love the energy!  I feel this incredible Light radiating from this painting that I know is mirroring me as I go onward, upward, forward. I’m ready to shine more than I was willing to in the past. I can see that it’s a reflection of me. And I love that the heart is open – open to giving and receiving.”

I was so glad she liked it. Relieved even. I’d told her “I hope you’re ready to shine”, conscious of the amount of iridescent paint and the mirror I was guided to include.

The white & gold mica at the core of the infinity symbol add to this shine – infusing her path with love & compassion. When the infinity symbol had appeared in one of my visions for Leslie, they were almost as wings. With time, they evolved to include the crimson blood of humanity, the healing energies of Nature and archangel Raphael, and the celebratory feeling of Christmas coursing through it.

The heart in peacock colours is reminiscent of this creature’s ability to transform the toxins / poisons it ingests into beauty. Likewise, Leslie has transformed her near-death experience and challenges into the love and light she famously shares with others.

This is what she just shared with me, a month after bringing her Soul Energy Portrait home:

 “I just love this piece. When I’m sitting in front of it and looking at it, I feel everything within my body aligning with all that I am. It’s amplified this divine knowing, this divine energy. It’s aligned my heart, soul, the human me with my divinity. When I’m saying my affirmations or listening to a piece of music I was guided to while contemplating the piece, I feel all of the energy within the cells of my body being activated. And I really feel it when I don’t take the time to do this in the morning. Then, I feel misaligned, incomplete, that there’s something energetically not right. So thank you, thank you. It’s become an important piece of what I need to do every day so that I can become the leader that I know I’m here to be. I love you, my dear friend, my painting and all the magic you create! ” ~ Leslie Bridger – The Awe Project

P.S. I work with clients all over the world to create Soul Energy Portrait Experiences. I only do a few a year as these are very intensive processes. If this is the divine timing for yours, please contact me to make arrangements. Learn more here…

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