Reborn of Compassion

After a blissful play marathon that brought 14 small paintings to life, I was moved to slow down and go deeper into the energy and vision work that characterizes my art.

It’s from 30 hours of being in this contemplative and co-creative space that “Reborn of Compassion” came into being.

I can’t express how open and expanded my heart felt (and continues to feel) when I gazed upon this finished painting.

The energy I channeled for this piece brought tears of joy to my eyes. So loving…. 

“Reborn of Compassion”
(18″ x 36″)
Acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas.
Original SOLD
Prints available.

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After applying layers of wet upon wet fluid and high flow professional acrylic paints onto the canvas, I got out of the way.

My job was done. I’d mixed the colours of fire with the movement of water and knew that if I kept trying to force things to happen, it would just mess things up.

Truly, the studio is a great classroom for life.

For over an hour, I literally watched the paint dry while singing Sanskrit yoga chants cross-legged on my colourfully stained drop sheets.

The colours gently flowed and mixed across the canvas, helped by Spirit and the gentle slope in the floor.

It was a very meditative process.

This fiery flow represents the energy, power, passion, and creativity of a new dawn (rebirth & renewal).

It took several more hours for that base coat to dry once the colours had stopped running, so I had time to work the design on paper before transferring it onto the canvas.

This painting was sparked by seeing a tall half-circled Celtic-style tree design on a castle wall in the Lord of the Rings movie. I’d gasped in awe when I spotted its simplicity and beauty in the background.

I purposefully didn’t take a picture, so that I wouldn’t be tempted to copy it. But its tall thin dimensions perfectly matched this 18″ x 36″ canvas I had been eyeing in the studio. I’d never painted a really tall tree with a small top before.

Interestingly enough, it wasn’t until the painting was finished that I recognized it as a mandala tree. Fun!

Do you see the iridescent dome shaped designs in the large outer layer of the tree top? I almost filled them in with more designs, but I’m so glad I listened to my intuition and left them empty. They’re two-way portals – for prayers to go out and Divine Love to come in. They offer a violet filter through which to change our paradigms, perceptions – and to see Truth. 

The peacock came to me in a vision when I asked my intuition what energy and symbolism also needed to be included.

There was also a pumpkin – perhaps inspired by the fact it was Thanksgiving weekend – but I didn’t include that in the final design.

I love peacocks! I so enjoyed painting one years ago, and its energy was strongly present in a Soul Energy Portrait I painted for a client last year.  I welcomed the opportunity to work with it again. After all, they’re gorgeous and transformative!

Peacocks are thought of as the modern version of the phoenix – itself a powerful symbol of transformation.

But what most impresses me about them is their ability to eat poisonous snakes and plants and transform these toxins into nourishment. What a perfect symbol for transforming one’s challenges into beauty.

This is further enhanced by their many eyes (fanned out along their tail), representing the wise vision necessary to see clearly and live in alignment with Truth.

Add to that its association with Kwan-Yin, goddess of compassion, and what’s not to love?

I had to use a bit of this compassion on myself. My original peacock design had a much stronger S-curve, which is so visually appealing. But once I got into the paint, I kept adding and adding to the fullness of the tail and so I lost some of that original intention. Still, I love it!

When you let go of what you think things should be, it’s easier to accept what is.

I used sacred geometry to strategically place the centre of the Tree of Life and the peacock’s eye in the design. After gazing at the almost-finished painting, however, something about the amount of sky at the top versus the ground at the bottom jarred me.

So I decided to add an element – that’s when the triangle with a spiral appeared in my mind’s eye.

This symbol and string of dots represents being embraced by Source Energy as we do the work of being human – being constantly reborn of compassion … for ourselves and others.

It’s the work of bringing the human back into Spirit.

May gazing at “Reborn into Compassion” raise your vibration to help you make the necessary changes in your life so that you too can live more aligned with your Truth.

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