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Summer Solstice/Full Moon/White Tantra

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Happy Summer everyone!! What a beautiful and rare occurrence to have the 2016 Summer Solstice and the Full Moon on the same day. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event, the last time there was a Full Moon/Summer Solstice on the same day was 70 years ago! We celebrated in Taos with a silent qigong practice as the sun set and the moon rose over the mountains; a divine evening. I woke up predawn yesterday and joined the White Tantra Summer Solstice Kundalini Sadhana gathering up in the high desert mountains of Espanola. It was my first White Tantra immersion and it was powerful, challenging and highly transformative. I absolutely loved it! I began practicing yoga as a young adult in 1993, and have been practicing Kundalini yoga since 2000. I resonate deeply with Kundalini, it remains my favorite lineage of yogic science. With the planetary alignments, the time on the Earth and all other factors combined, the practice of sitting with 1000+ other yogis/yoginis doing kriyas, chanting mantras all day in the remote mountain desert was perfect medicine, filling my soul with profound love, gratitude and light. Together we broke through major subconscious blockages, burned through the dross and seriously amplified healing energy for humanity and the planet. Not a bad way to spend the day!! Now back to the studio, so excited about this new body of work. Diving into deep flow of the pure joy of creation of this series. We are still planning to open the exhibition at the end of the year around the holidays at the Taos gallery. Many blessings to you all xo

Initiation/Studio update

Back in the studio after incredibly magical spring journeys to Europe, NYC and the west coast. Fully immersed in the beautiful vibe in Taos and the emerging green life-force energy at the Ranchos studio and compound. So much gratitude for all of it and for all of you:) Having fun creating this new body of work, it is progressing smoothly and I am enjoying diving deeper into the shamanic aspect of this series and the messages/gifts of the medicine animals, birds and archetypes. Continuing to anchor in the new earth frequencies through the alchemical creation of the paintings and meditation practice, sacred sound current work with other practitioners as well community qigong and kundalini practices. We have decided to open the new exhibition INITIATION (working title) in Taos in December this year before the work travels to other cities/countries. Details will be posted here in the next few months. Thank you for stopping by and Happy Spring/Summer!

Happy Valentine’s Day

May we cultivate and open heart coherence within so that our world may be illumined with true love, healing and peace. As we align with the infinite love within,  so appears love all around us. Blessed Be!

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Deep Winter in the Rocky Mountains

Greetings and happy wishes for a great 2016 to all! I am deep in the studio working on the new series, there are many images coming through asking to be manifested into the 3D. The new work is intensely shamanic with compelling animal and bird medicine accompanying the archetypes. Fun!!! More soon! Many blessings and much gratitude xo

Art Basel Miami Beach

Just returned from a fun week in Miami at the premiere international art fair Art Basel Miami Beach. Wow, what an array of world class contemporary artwork. There are a plethora of parallel fairs including NADA and Untitled Art Fair plus a vast selection of art related events around the city all week.  Highlights for me included White Cube’s presentation of 6′ x 6′ An Improvisation by Taos Artist Larry Bell in the Design District and an opening night lecture with the artist by Serpentine Gallery’s Hans Ulrich Obrist; “Unrealism” an exhibition of contemporary figurative work curated by Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch across the street from Larry’s exhibition and a morning lecture/salon with Jenny Holzer and Trevor Paglen at Art Basel. Also, was happy to be able to check out the Rubell Family Collection’s exhibition of 100 women artists titled “No Man’s Land” this morning on the way to the airport https://rfc.museum/exhibitions It was a non-stop week of events and phenomenal art.

New abstract paintings, Autumn in Taos

30" x 20" earth pigments, encaustic, oil on panel

Indigo 30″ x 20″ earth pigments, encaustic, oil on panel 2015

Have been playing with the pure minerals, and completely submerging the figurative elements. This is an intuitive and freeing process of working with the raw earth pigments to create even more depth and chaytoyancy. “Indigo” has pure indigo that I brought back from Aswan/Egypt, lapis, mica, gold.

24" x 18" earth pigments, encaustic,oil on panel

Becoming the Falcon of Gold 24″ x 18″ earth pigments, encaustic,oil on panel

Here is another painting with pure raw umber that I brought back from Italy, mica, gold, raw Sienna and the subtle under-painting with emerald green, sepia and hand-made Sumi ink. Thank you so much to everyone who showed up for the opening of PORTAL, it was a lovely evening and great to see everyone, old friends and new. Now the aspen leaves are golden, the weather is clear and beautiful here. Time to go for a hike in the mountains ~ Happy Autumn!!

 

PORTAL paintings in process

12 new oil paintings are in process in my studio now, reaching completion for the opening exhibition at Untitled Fine Art in Taos on Saturday night, September 26th, 2015 from 5 to 8 pm. We will have a big party to celebrate the new paintings with live tabla and sitar music by Pardeshi, all-organic refreshments and a dramatic “light etching” performance by 4th dimensional artist Erik Reiger from 8 to 8:30 pm. Two of my paintings are also in the Taos Fall Arts Festival/Taos Select that opens the night before, Friday September 25th. The Paseo is a great new addition of outdoor installation and real time live works from international artists that light up the main road of Taos all weekend long after dark. This is a world class weekend of art and performance, hope you all can be there to check it out.  Super excited about PORTAL/ my new body of work, it feels like it is a quantum leap forward with beautiful abstraction and mineral subtleties within the surfaces. It’s all detail work, glazing and sanding/polishing now. Thanks for stopping by!