I am pleased to have two paintings "Emergence" and "Queendom Come" included in this beautiful new art exhibition presented by MONAT Gallery in Madrid, Spain. Press Release from the gallery: MONAT Gallery is pleased to present the Visions from the Unknown exhibition, an important collective exhibition featuring different international artists. Focusing on their most recent … Continue reading “Visions of the Unknown” Art Exhibition
Creativity
As seen in House and Garden…
It's the thing I have loved the most about my painting practice: the surprises that show up on the canvas. Since my art is intuitive and based in a process painting type methodology, I may start off with an idea but usually more of an emotion that I am invoking on the canvas... I allow … Continue reading As seen in House and Garden…
On Character (Spoiler Alert: Chef’s Table BBQ on Netflix)
I’ve been thinking about character. Something the Australian Tyson Yunkaporta wrote in his book Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World sticks with me as a truth. He wrote: “As usual, I seek the most insightful knowledge in the most marginalized point of view.” Yes. The most insightful knowledge can be expressed by … Continue reading On Character (Spoiler Alert: Chef’s Table BBQ on Netflix)
Seeds for the Future
Are you dreaming positive stories of the new earth to seed for the future? How is your resilience? True story: August 8, 1992, while my mother was sick and not long for the world and my life was in upheaval for a good couple of years, I bought a slim book that 28 years later … Continue reading Seeds for the Future
Nature + Art = Joy + Resilience
Earth is speaking to us and more and more people are awakening each day to her messages. The evidence of a whole new earth culture rising is visible in all the efforts towards sustainability and righting our relationship with nature. At the same time, dire messages out there about ecological collapse cause despair and a … Continue reading Nature + Art = Joy + Resilience
In Search of the Mountain Witch
Sometimes you try to keep things a secret but the Universe has other plans. Over the past few months, while working on a novel set in my birthplace of Jamaica and weaving in some ancestry stories, I created a character out of my imagination. This character was a woman who loved birds and had a room full of birds... (Read more by clicking on title)
Painting the Ecological Self
All month the painting speaks to me, teaches me what it is to surrender. Surrender to what the body wants, needs, craves, demands. You cannot rush the body. Surrender... (Read more by clicking on title)
‘Coven Up’ and 7 other things a Newbie learned at AWP
When the largest literary festival dropped into town last week it seemed ridiculous to not go. I was a newbie to the AWP Conference and Book Fair though I had heard about the Association of Writers and Writing Programs since my days in undergrad. I wasn’t quite prepared energetically to mingle with the reportedly 15,000 … Continue reading ‘Coven Up’ and 7 other things a Newbie learned at AWP
A Wild Woman Sacred Art Workshop
Why do I love working with the Wild Woman Archetype? Because connecting with this archetype is so powerful. She is the archetype that bridges the cosmic creative force of the universe and the planetary creative force of the earth. She helps us to take the energies of heaven and earth, embody it in our wombs, … Continue reading A Wild Woman Sacred Art Workshop
Make your inner critic your ally and let your Muse out to play
When I was in graduate school I had the great good fortune to study with Shiloh Sophia, renowned visionary artist and founder of Intentional Creativity®. Shiloh's classes were my introduction to painting the feminine essence, art as a sacred practice and the world of Intentional Creativity.