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…then a wonderful thing happened
What began as an exercise in practicality became infinite in its potential just as soon as I stopped worrying about “how much” I would get back in material terms. Once that limiting idea (how it trips us up!) had been dispensed with, the free-flowing rewards were as exponential as they were immeasurable as they were available to all parties and there was such a strong sense that this was only the beginning… Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art as a business, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Menu, Personal Development, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged energy art, energy commerce, energy exchange, expanding your belief system, exponential benefit, inspiration, love, making energetic space, making space for creativity, motivation as an artist, new approaches to business, new commerce, Painting, positivity, realising potential, self-belief, synchronicity, what is success
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Acknowledging the relationships we have
Sometimes acknowledging the relationships we have can be a beautifully simple yet powerful thing to do; transformative in its way… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life journey, Meditation, Menu, Personal Development, Space weather
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Tagged achieving aspirations, adapting to circumstance, bigger picture, circadian rhythms, cycles, getting things done, inspiration, living in the now, oneness, productivity, relationships, seasons, what is
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Glass butterflies II
Glass Butterflies is a growing collection of photographs depicting butterflies in juxtaposition with glass: under frames, next to windows, inside glass houses…a metaphor that has deeply informed my painting, writing and thinking for a number of years. As well as taking me on a journey of deeply personal exploration, these synchronistic experiences have everything to do with releasing the Sacred Feminine from her “box” whilst learning to appreciate how that feminine aspect can be allowed to settle upon a much more equal and balanced relationship with the male-oriented, left-hemispherical “structures” of our three-dimensional reality. In a sense, the butterfly learns to work with “the box” on her terms and in ways that enhance her innate qualities; which is the very marriage of fluidity and form that underpins the art-process, taking “inspiration” through the journey of the creative act to where we have something tangible that we can interface with as a three-dimensional form of expression. As you can tell, the metaphor has many layers and continues to develop as one of the long-running themes of my experience. Continue reading →
Posted in Animal art, Architecture, Art, Art in the living space, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Installation art, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Photography, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Windows in art
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Tagged art and consciousness, art and evolution, balancing left and right hemispheres, butterflies in art, butterfly metaphor, divine feminine, inspiration, metamorphosis, sacred feminine, the ninth wave, yin and yang
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Outside of time
The kind of powerful “a-ha” moments that transform whole realities in a single moment are like the meer cat of the mountain; they only show themselves once an insistence upon linear time has left the vicinity. Which is, ironically, when every one gets to realise we didn’t need time to have an experience; we insisted upon it to give a feeling of sides to our experiences, so that we would have something to push against, something with which to compare and contrast one situation with another in a sequence (I was over there, then I did that….now I am over here) but we can think of those sides as like trainer wheels which we can now do without and still not fall over. We now have, off pat, the familiar sensation of what it is to experience one thing as distinct from another, so what if we can continue doing that outside of time? We have become so afraid that we would be unable to know ourselves or even exist (what is existence if I can’t measure it?) without those structures in place that we have become like my father, micromanaging and making-busy ever more in an effort to hold our reality together inside its well-organised little box. But what if the box is preventing us from seeing what we really want to see? What if we really need no box, certainly not as a limitation upon ourselves…and would still exist without it, having our most incredible experiences beyond it; what then? What if – evolutionarily speaking – we have reached the crucial point where we have to be prepared to take that leap into the unknown, beyond the box, to where we are about to mix it all up, structure and no structure, the best of both, like a meeting of left and right hemispheres in the most harmonious and creative partnership of our so-called history? Yet we have to be prepared to prise apart our own white-knuckle grip upon linear time to get even close to this happening. Like someone hanging off the edge of a cliff, we have to know we can let go and trust that we will still be alright when that happens…try telling that to someone seeking an assurance based upon scientific trial and error, but then, our evolution relies upon taking a leap beyond such assurances. Perhaps in the space beyond linear time, we will discover other kinds of reassurance which are just as compelling… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Meditation, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged "Arrival", alpha brainwaves, alpha waves, balance, beta brainwaves, beta waves, Carl Johan Calleman, creativity, evolution, flow, flux, harmony, inspiration, intuition, left and right hemispheres, muse, new working practices, ninth wave, non-linear experiences, non-linearity, outside of time, quantum reality, retirement, space-time, synchronicity, The Nine Waves of Creation, time speeding up, time-space, trusting the right hemisphere, yin-yang
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Resculpting Mondays
This post started as something of a joke; something lighthearted before Christmas and yet there’s real substance to it as I consider all the ideas that got hooked onto this mindset of Monday. Why do we feel so different about the start of the working week? And how do we get to soften that, to resculpt it….like soft clay that we can turn into anything we like? Continue reading →
Realising pure potential
The journey of my latest painting shared this week in my art blog Source: Painting light
Posted in Art, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Floral art, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Pure potential, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged art, art meaning, floral, inspiration, lilies, oil on canvas, Painting, pure, white
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Catching onto the coat-tails of the cosmos
What these energies seem to particularly hook you up to…if you are open to being hooked…is the energy of pure “future potential”. You get “shown” little go-ahead lights that say, quite adamantly, “come this way” (or not) and…if you trust them…you get there all the sooner; in fact, time seems to morph into whole new shapes and rhythms using synchronicity and flow as its markers in lieu of clock-hands. Plans orchestrate together with remarkable ease, you sense you are working with the universe as your personal assistant by your side and the feeling of being on a golden trail lit up by a pathway of personal markers and clues is quite addictive, like a natural “high” that has you electrically fizzing but in such a good way. In fact, everything you do feels inspired and (in my case) is relatable to following the most creative surges of inspiration when I’m painting; those that take me somewhere new and exciting in my work. In moments of hesitation, you learn, the answer is probably “no” but perhaps you also need to step away and boil the kettle, walk the dog, take a moment in the garden. Once you feel clear again, you just know which way you are going, which “thing” is calling you to it. Its usually the one seems to asserts itself in a whole different way to all the other choices on the table (like it is literally “lit up” in your mental pictures of all the options) and even when logistical niggles and left-brained considerations try to make themselves heard (such as the thing you are most drawn to “costs more” than the one you feel you ought to choose) you sense strongly that this isn’t important and should be over-ridden; that it will all come right in unforeseen ways if you go with the “golden choice” and that this is is clearly the one with your name on it.
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Tagged addicted to research, Barbara Hand Clow, communication with the universe, creativity, ease, electro-sensitivity, flock, flow, frequency, geek-out, genius, geomagnetic storms, grounding, heightened intuition, high-intensity energies, inspiration, intense focus, just knowing, obsessive compulsive traits, over-thinking, pure potential, self-destructive thoughts, Space weather, synchronicity, travel plans, trust, working with the universe
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Airing your undies on the line
What’s with all this blogging people do? For me, its an addictive, almost obsessive-compulsive sense of creating order out of the otherwise arbitrary “chaos” of consciousness, of grasping handfuls of tenuously related threads and pulling them all together into a definitive cross-over point and finishing with the pretty bow that writing gives to a series of random epiphanies. While I breathe, it seems, I must write…
When we act and create from what we feel inexplicably compelled to do (that is, from the heart), we can never fail to expand outwards from ourselves and that “small” personal act in countless ways; spiralling out into the world on the back of our own enthusiasm and becoming to others the “breath” of inspiration (breath is, necessarily two-directional…) in ways both overt or immeasurably subtle, our output ending up who knows where, like the very air from our lungs. So, does blogging serve a purpose for those who do it…does art or anything done for the love of it…well, does breathing? Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Authorship, Blogging, Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Personal Development, Social media, Writing
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Tagged art for art's sake, celebrity, doing it for love not money, Fibonacci spiral, finding meaning, Golden Mean, inner child, inspiration, inspiring others, making sense, psychology of blogging, purpose of writing, seeking attention, social media audience, spirals, validation, who reads blogs?, why create, why write a blog, writing like breathing
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When you lose something you find something
Talking about a day of two loses on a very different scale and yet all strangely synchronistic…joined together by a song lyric. And there’s nothing like the “loss” of a living artist (though their offerings live on and on) to bring their work and motivations sharply into focus as we are suddenly inundated with retrospectives of their life’s output via every cultural channel there is; its like everything they were about is suddenly distilled down into an extraordinarily potent brew that we all get to take a sip of (if we choose to). So, maybe saturation in the mentality of an artist who never feared his most obscure offerings being ridiculed or rejected is just what is called for right now in a culture where popularity is courted as a measure of artistic success; a timely reminder that our best output, most probably, lies in a dark room from which we create our own version of light in a state of oblivion as far as the opinions of others are concerned and with no sense of an audience peering in at us. Maybe true creative genius is only unleashed once we learn to please ourselves above all others… Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art as a business, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Artists, Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Entertainment, Life choices, Lifestyle, Music & theatre, Music composition, Personal Development, Social media
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Tagged art lives on, Blackstar lyrics, breaking the phone habit, create like no one is watching you, David Bowie, death, dropping ties and attachments, following your bliss, freedom to create, gaining perspective, how artists inspire us, inspiration, keeping things in proportion, Lazarus lyrics, life without a phone, loss, mercury retrograde, motivation as an artist, popularity culture, reactions to David Bowie's death, starman, the obsession with popularity, true creative genius, what is art?, what is artistic success?, what's really important, witnessing our reactions
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Layers in the landscape – part one
Why did these scraggy, age-worn manuscripts move me so much? Was it encountering them in the raw, feeling the art-process in the making, the immediacy and daring commitment of fleeting words dragged from the ether; words that were destined to be repeated and reprinted and quoted and revised to oblivion, made fixed as though made of stone and yet, in the moment they were created, they were still a variable, an impulse, a new-born potential, a risk, just as much as any brush-stroke I ever place? Continue reading →
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Posted on August 27, 2015 by Helen White
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Tagged artistic freedom, Bach, Beatles, Boudicca, British Library, Brontë, censorship, Charles Dickens, creative freedom, creative purpose, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, energy hub, Frankenstein's monster, Hampstead Heath, Hardy Tree, inspiration, Jane Austen, leylines, literary manuscripts, mad woman in the attic, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Midlands Railway Line, raw art, River Fleet, sacred feminine, sacred river, sacred site, sacred text, Sir John Soane, St Pancras Old Church, the risk of creation, Thomas Hardy, work in progress
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