Things we can't recall

Things We Can't Recall

"And I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of their child's hair. the silence of a forest, their lover's crooked grin. Their country, their religion, their family. And I believe that if you follow this love all the way to its end, if you start with the thing you find most beautiful and trace its perfume back to its essence, you will perceive an intangible presence, a swath of stillness that allows the thing you love to be visible like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon."

This quote is from Geneen Roth's book Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything which is rocking my world right now.

Things We Can't Recall is a new painting about those details of the things that we find most beautiful, that permeate us until only the trace remains because in time, we have become them and they have become us.
It is about the distant echo of a heartbeat. The trace of a scent long forgotten. A quiet dear voice.

Cinder and Smoke

Cinder and Smoke

In the midst of my flurry of studio activity here I am seeing light at the end of the tunnel as I am putting the finishing touches on multiple paintings this week. I am so excited to share them with you over the next few days. The first one, Cinder and Smoke is so close to my heart right now, I'm completely enamored with it especially with those turquoise horses!

As I was working on it I was thinking about things that drift away from us as we grow and mature, as we let go of things (parts of us even) that we no longer need, to make room for what is coming into our lives. Moving ever forward.

I went to see the movie "Eat, Pray, Love" this past August, since I loved the book I was so excited to see the movie, but honestly as often happens to me when I see the movie version of a book that I love, the movie felt a bit one dimensional and left me a little cold. The most exciting part of going to see the movie came during the previews, as I was watching the preview for a movie called "Secretariat", the female character was asked, "Why are you doing all of this?" and she replied, "It is about life being ahead of you, and running at it!". Something about that line gave me chills and has stayed playing over and over in my mind.

So this piece has that idea in it too, it is about life being ahead of you, and running galloping full speed to embrace it.

Prints of Cinder and Smoke are now available in my shop.

Meeting

What would happen when the horse met the Pegasus? The earthly meeting the celestial. The grounded meeting the sublime. The mundane meeting the enchanted. The corporeal meeting the ethereal.

Would the horse learn to fly?
My daughter left these two on our kitchen table, set up just like this yesterday. I loved that their faces were almost touching in this gentle moment. It made me stop and think, about things big, and small.

Ponies!

Part of our time in Oregon was spent staying on a ranch in the central part of the state. The ranch was right out of a "wild west" story book, with picture perfect views in every direction (horse posing included). Carys is two, and I thought she was too young to get excited about horses...not so! She could not get enough of them and called them all ponies!

Every time she saw them she would shout, "Ponieeeeeeeees!".

While she was too young to go riding, we went to the stables to watch the horses come in from the fields for breakfast, water and social time.

It had been a while since I had been so close to horses, the earthy smell took me right back to being 12 years old at horse back riding camp. What amazing animals they are, just being near them made me feel more in the moment, more awake, and more connected to the earth beneath my feet.

And now we are fully into another little girl obsession....Ponytails! Seriously, she wants to wear them everyday. Loving that!