Women in Art 278 Magazine April 2018 | Page 29

Butterfly Forest 20 x 16 $900 Sanctuary 20 x 16 $700 ABOUT THE ARTIST: Art is a language in which harmonies are born and that language becomes a Song of Love and Light. It is the expression of our divine instincts in that the creative forms are imbued with the artist’s spiritual energy and are transcendent. In a sense, art is a portal. You can intellectualize it, record its history, its pedigrees, but its primal pulse, its language, its communication ... that is another thing. In the beginning, teaching myself was imperative and I began the process of observation and study as a prelude to expressing my inner authenticity in art. As I progressed, I found I had a particular affinity for painting on heavy gold paper and became fluent in portraiture, enthralled at the prospect of “catching a person’s likeness.” But whether it is the splendor of a human face or the light and shadow play of an impressionistic landscape, it must be shared. At the end of the day, so to speak, I would have the viewer experience a sense of Universal Oneness and its overwhelming love. There is an ‘I’ and a ‘Thou’ about it all. The Tao would say, I create it for you, so we may become one. Artists throughout the ages have sought to be intimate with such virtues, and I am one of those. ART 29 pag e