“Sun in the heart,   We did a fun session with the little kids at home. I took these pieces up to Red Lodge to be bisque fired.
It was my 70th birthday in December that I moved into painting the Earth element…a move from the last few decades of painting the air and water elements. An intuitive pivot into the grounding and centering earth provides. The wellness of growing roots, reaching out to others, and thoroughly embracing ourselves inspired. these are the images from my art show at Roots Gallery in Billings this spring. I painted the pieces over the winter.  The rose is a rose, THE MAPLES  Only you will ever know the real you.
Everyone else sees a version of you; a version created in their mind, through their filters and using their own experiences and judgements to mould you from. You may think they see what you know about yourself but they don’t. Every one you have ever met, holds a version of you in their memory. And none of them are real. It is a special moment when this truth sinks in because you realize, at last, that you have a very unique thing going on, with yourself. So many versions of you exist, in very many places but you alone will ever know the real one. Now if that is not a relationship worth treasuring, what is? - Donna Ashworth, Only You  "To live in a sacred space is to live in a symbolic environment where spiritual life is possible, where everything around you speaks of the exaltation of the Spirit.
This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen. "Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again." — Anthony Lawlor, Joseph Campbell in The Temple in the House  “I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility (or over-respectabilty) to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. She simply must put her foot down and say no to half of what she believes she "should" be doing. Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.”  My arm looks rough, but it is healing nicely… Actually, I took a zombie painting class and this was my project! It was so fun, I learned a lot of different techniques – super simple – but so realistic looking! "....take joy in the contentment of simply making something. The process of making, moment by tiny moment, will guide you in learning to seek the simpler aspects of life. Appreciating the sound of needle through thread, or the enjoyment of watching your work grow slowly row by row by row over weeks or even a year. Use this not as a way to make a finished thing, but more as a way to change your approach to how you spend your time." "Nature is ever at work building and pulling down.  Cyanotype and combination of chemicals from the summer of 2024…botanical was harvested near Glacier National Park. Substrate is vintage geological map. This piece will be part of new series. “If you are a writer or an artist, it is work that fulfills and makes you come into wholeness, and that goes on through a lifetime. Whatever the wounds that have to heal, the moment of creation assures that all is well, that one is still in tune with the universe, that the inner chaos can be probed and distilled into order and beauty.” - May Sarton, At Seventy: A Journal   The beginnings of a triptych… "You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don't know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody, you don't know what anybody owes to you. |
KTAs a working artist/retired art educator, I've always lived the artful life. Let's share! |
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