Painting as a Journey & Reshaping Futures

Every painting emerges from an inquiry & an intention - these are the first marks, the first layer, in every painting journey for me. In response to the initial inquiry, there are many layers of color and movement to uncover unknowns, reveal the shadows, and claim responses, sensations, feelings & experiences. And, calling on ancestral knowledge of Aotearoa & Celts, earthen & cosmic information, this bodies inner wisdom, scientific information, and divine breath for answers and the form that wishes to come forth.

The final form that you see is what I call an Archetypal Portrait. They emerge many layers after beginning, bringing the journey from an abstract space of spirit and cellular experiences into an embodied form. At this point in every painting there is a moment(s) where I begin to realize that there is archetypal information calling to be noticed. And for every painting there is a joining of my story with archetypes and ancient ones - bringing in symbols of claiming, healing, and completion of a new story. Each painting is complete when the new story is complete.

These paintings are wonderful tea and coffee companions - providing ever more wisdom and reminders of a wounding re-framed, and possibilities calling. They are artifacts of a journey complete. Providing reminders that we are all so much more than our woundings, and functions as a road map in relationship with the cosmos (ranginui), earth (papatuanuku), and all beings. Always guided by love, grace, resolution, and our human r/evolution.