ART FROM THE SOUL

PRINTS

2011-12-01T12:03:00.000-08:00

Limited prints now available of these three paintings.

Paintings I have done up to now

2011-04-04T12:26:00.000-07:00

The quality of some of the photos is not great. Sorry about that.

Sitting here waiting for this video to upload I'm thinking how I started painting.
I always say that it's better to try and fail that never have tried and live with the regret for the rest of your life.
And that is what happened. I just started painting.
I don't know what people think of my paintings. I know my friends and family likes them. Bless them!.

FEELING SAFE

2010-06-07T00:40:00.000-07:00

"Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure

words, but pouring them all right out,

just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping,

and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away"

Mulock, Dinah

Exhibtion 2008, Clew Bay Hotel, Westport

2010-02-05T00:39:00.000-08:00

* 2007

2009-07-09T08:10:00.000-07:00

Music
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Media: watercolour

''It had never occurred to me before that music
and thinking are so much alike.In fact, you could
say music is another way of thinking, or maybe
thinking is another kind of music.''

Ursula K. Le Guin

Music
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Media: watercolour

''Music is the movement of sound to reach
the soul for the education of its virtue...
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe,
wings to the mind, flight to the imagination,
a charm to sadness, and life to everything.''
Plato (427-347 BC)

Music
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Media: watercolour

"Music is a thing of the soul;
a rose-lipped shell that murmured
of the eternal sea;
a strange bird singing
the songs of another shore."
J.G. Holand

By My Side

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Media: watercolour

''To lie with you under a ceiling bright with shifting
water shadows - that's good.
To drowse in flower-scented darkness - that's good.
But best of all is rain - drumming, roaring, gushing
from the guttering - and we two warm and dry
and safe together, in each other's arms.''

Pam Brown

By My Side

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Media: watercolour

''I would like to go through life side by side
with you, telling you more and more until
we grew to be one being together until the
hour should come for us to die.''

James Joyce (1882-1941)

Intimacy

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Media: watercolour

"How pretty romance is- like silk shot
through with gold- delicate as gossamer.
Love is sturdier stuff. Survives the hardest wear
Can be scrubbed and stitched and
patched through an entire lifetime, and
flow more brightly with every passing year."
Pam Brown

The Kiss
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Media: watercolour

''You are always new.
The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest;
the last smile the brightest; the last
movement the gracefullest.''

John Keats(1795-1821)

Tranquillity

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Media: watercolour

''Never does the soul feel so far from human life as when a man finds himself alone in the vistas of the moon, either in the streets of a sleeping city, the avenues of the woods, or by the border of the sea.'' Elizabeth Stoddard: Two Men

* 2006

2009-07-09T01:00:00.001-07:00

Freedom

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Media: watercolour

''To see a world in a Grain of Sand
and a Heaven in a Wild Flower
hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
and Eternity in an hour.''

William Blake

You Are Not Alone

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Media: watercolour

''Think of one thing. You are not alone.
A million million lives have known
this pain, and found at last a way
to new tranquility.''

Pam Brown,b.1928

In Times Of Trouble
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Media: watercolour

''What is at the summit of courage, I
think is freedom. The freedom
that comes with the knowledge that
no earthly power can break you;
that an unbroken spirit is the only thing
you cannot live without....''

Paula Giddings

On The Journey To Life

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Media: watercolour and acrilic

''Sometime in your life you will go
on a jouney. It will be the longest journey
you have ever taken.
It is the journey to find yourself.''

Katherine Sharp

Eternal Sunshine

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Media: watercolour

''In the depth of winter,
I finally learned that
within me there lay an
invincible summer.''

Albert Camus(1913-1960)

Sharing Love

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Media: watercolour

''Love is born with the pleasure of looking at
each other, it is fed with the necessity of
seeing each other, it is concluded with the
impossibility of separation!.''

Jose Marti(1835-1895)

Sacred Link
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Media: mixed

''I breathe in the green grass and in
the flowers, and in the living waters...
I permeatre all things that they may
not die, I am LIFE.''

ST Hildegard of Bingen

Searching For Dreams
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Media: watercolour and acrilic

''And only when we are no longer afraid do
we begin to live in every experience, painful
or joyous; to live in gratitude for every
moment, to live abundantly.''

Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961)

Along The Path Of Life
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Media: watercolours

''Don't walk in front of me,
I may not follow,
don't walk behind me,
I may not lead;
walk beside me,
and just be my friend.''
Albert Camus

* DAYDREAMING

2009-07-03T07:21:00.000-07:00

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Media: watercolour

''If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied
then forget it , now!.
Imagine a new story for your life and belive in it.
Focus only on the moments
when you achived what you desired,
and that strength will help you
to get what you want.''

Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

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Media: watercolour

''The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams, each according to his or her own talent.''
Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries

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Media: watercolour

''Dreams nourish the soul
just as food nourishes the body.
The pleasure of the search and
of adventure feed our dreams.''

Paulo Coelho,The Pilgrimage

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Media: watercolour

''The fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. And no heart ever suffered when it went in search of its dreams.''

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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Media: watercolour

''The closer you get to your dream,
the more your personal legend
becomes your real reason for living.''

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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Media: watercolour

''Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps us to change and send us off in search of our dreams.''

Paulo Coelho,By The River Piedra....

* ANGELS

2009-07-02T14:06:00.001-07:00

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Media: watercolour

When I ask the angels for answers
to the human mystery, I find that they guide me
to a sense of peace and comfort in my soul.
The angels do this not by bringing me answers
and intricate theories, but by bringing me
creative ways of responding to life with light in my heart.

Terry Lynn Taylor, The Angel Experience

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Media: watercolour
''Whoever these inmortal and blessed inhabitants of heaven be, if they do not love us and wish us to be blessed, then we ought not to worship them; and if they do love us and desire our happiness, they cannot wish us to be made happy by any other means than they themselves have enjoyed, for how could they wish our blessedness to flow from one source, theirs from another?''

Saint Augustine, The City of God

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Media: watercolour

''Oh sovereign angel, wide winged stranger above a forgetful earth care for me, care for me. Keep me unaware of danger and not regretful and not forgetful of my innocent birth.''

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When I ask the angels for answers to the human mystery. I find that they guide me to a sense of peace and confort in my soul. The angels do this not by bringing me answers and intricate theories, but by bringing me creative ways of responding to life with light in my heart.

Terry Lynn Taylor, The Angel Experience

* SOULMATE COLLECTION

2009-06-30T00:46:00.001-07:00

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud. It is not rude,it is not self-seeking,it is not easily angered,it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

''...Love is always open arms.With arms open
you allow love to come and go as it wills, freely,
for it will do so anyway. If you close your arms
about love you will find you are left only
holding yourself.''

Leo Buscglia

''Love is spontaneous and craves expression
through joy, through beauty, through truth,
even through tears. Love lives the moment;
it is neither lost in yesterday nor does it
crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW!

Leo Buscaglia

''The beginning of love is to let those we
love be perfectly themselves, and not to
twist them to fit our own image.
Otherwise we love only the reflection of
ourselves we find in them''

Thomas Merton(1915-1968)

***Seeking Your True Path

2009-06-20T01:13:00.001-07:00

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Dimentions: 310 x 466
Media: acrilic

''In order to arrive you must follow the signs.
God inscribed on the world the path
that each man must follow.
It is just a matter of reading the inscription
He wrote for you.''

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

***Feeling The Energy

2009-06-20T01:11:00.000-07:00

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Dimentions: 340 x 469
Media: acrilic

''Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim,clad in russet weeds.He comes not like a hermit, clad in grey. He comes like a warrior, with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshingfloor.''

Longfellow:Prose Works

***Strenght In Unity

2009-06-20T01:09:00.000-07:00

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Dimentions: 144 x 426
Media: acrilic

''We are all creators. We breathe. To
speak is to form breath and to
make manifest sound into the
world. As I write I create myself
again and again. Re-Create. And
breathe. And I see that I am not
one voice, but many: all colours, all
sounds, all fears, all loves.

Joy Harjo

***Sacred Learning

2009-06-20T01:07:00.000-07:00

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Dimentions: 313 x 470
Media: watercolour and acrilic

''To undertake a genuine spiritual path
is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the
art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring
them to the transformative power
of our heart.''

Jack Kornfield

***Sacred Trust

2009-06-20T01:06:00.000-07:00

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Dimentions: 317 x 468
Media: watercolour

''Being born as humans to this earth
is a very sacred trust.
We have a sacred responsability because
of the special gift we have, which is beyond
the fine gifts of the plant life, the fish, the
woodlands, the birds, and all the other
living things on earth.
We are able to take care of them.''

Audrey Shenandoah

***Sacred Healing

2009-06-20T01:04:00.000-07:00

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Dimentions: 320 x 465
Media: watercolour

''We must be willing to get rid of
the life we have planned so as to
have the life that is wating for us.''

Joseph Campbell

***Speaking With One Voice

2009-06-20T01:02:00.001-07:00

For Sale

Dimentions:116 x 460
Media: acrilic

''Human action has not woven the web of life;
we are but a thread in it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.''

Chief Seattle (c.1786-1866),Suquamish Nation

***A Whole World Within

2009-06-20T00:59:00.000-07:00

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Dimentions: 290 x 461
Media: acrilic

''We all live in our own world.
But if you look up at the starry sky,
you will see that all the different worlds
up there combine to form constellations,
solar systems,galaxies.''

Paulo Coelho, Veronica Decides To Die.

***The Noble Warrior

2009-06-20T00:56:00.000-07:00

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Dimentions:340 x 417
Media: acrilic

''Defeat exists, but not suffering.
A true warrior knows that when
he loses a battle he is improving
the skill with which he wields a sword.
He will be able to fight more skilfully
next time.''

Paulo Coelho, By The River Piedra...

***Unspoken Love

2009-06-20T00:54:00.000-07:00

For Sale
Dimentions: 249 x 452
Media: acrilic

''So rests the sky against the earth....
I feel an ache of longing to share in
this embrace, to be united and
absorbed; a longing like carnal desire,
but directed towards earth, water, sky
and returned by the whispers of the trees,
the fragrance of the soft soil, the caresses
of the wind, the embrace of water and light.
Content? No, no , no.
But refreshed, rested while waiting.

Dag Hammarskjold

***Finding Stillness

2009-06-20T00:52:00.000-07:00

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Dimentions: 351 x 470
Media: watercolour and acrilic

''When you lack understanding and
are unable to control your mind,
your senses do not obey you,
just as unruly horses do not
obey a charioteer.''

Upanishads( c.600BC)

***Peaceful Influence

2009-06-20T00:20:00.000-07:00

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Dimentions: 614 x 202
Media: acrilic

''Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body,
mind and spirit. The man who preserves his
selfhood is ever calm and unshaken by the storms
of existence.....If you ask him:''What is silence?''
he will answer:''It is the Great Mystery.The
holy silence is His voice.'' If you ask:''what are
the fruits of silence?'' he will say:''They are
self-control, true courage or endurance,
patience, dignity and reverence.
Silence is the cornerstone of character.''

Ohiyesa(Dr. Charles Eastman), Santee Sioux

* EXHIBITION 2008

2009-06-18T13:40:00.000-07:00

In the beginning, the land was covered with ancient woodland,an unexplored maze of massive tree trunks and deep leaf litter.
Our ancestors made their home in these places, they learned to hunt and gather, to build shelters, and to venerate their gods.

They knew the ways of trees and timber, the strong staves of the yew for bows and spears, the oak for construction, the alder for shields, and so on. And they associated their gods with trees so that the power of a kingdom was vested in a great magical tree or branch, and this had to be protected.

As the trees were cut down, and the ancient forests cleared, part of that old knowledge retreated; nowadays the fairies live on in ring forts, along rivers, on wooded islands, wherever trees still have a chance to grow in peace. So the stands of woodland that survive are very special places, preserving an ancient awareness.

If we want to find Puck and the other spirits of the earth, we will be most likely to find them in wooland, the land of heart's desire.

We do not go to the woods in spirit only, we also go in our physical bodies to touch, see, smell and hear the great, patient forms. As children we took up the challenge and climbed for a place in the green, comforting shadows of the tree branches; we got away from the grown-ups and their anxious world.

Today we can return again, inspired by Carmen Garcia's art. to find a place among the trees for our spirits and our bodies.

Written by Sean Lysaght, author of '' The mouth of a river(2007), and ''Scarecrow'' (1998).