Title: The view from Rome
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: In the beginning of time there was a girl who knew exactly what to do but she was so fascinated by life that she got distracted. One day she woke up... meaning she remembered she had work to do. She put on her hard hat and buried her head into the earth to see what needed to be done. By then the trees had grown tall and she could see through their roots up to the tops of their branches and out all over the world.
Title: The Object of Desire
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: Sometimes I hide within a cage of a cage in a vast fortress. A place where the solid and fragile clash yet I am unharmed. I am the magic of the earth, a light... some call me rainbow. It is unnatural for me to be here... but I don't mind. I am here for many and for one. Look towards the unstained sky to find the reminder that I am also trapped behind your protected ribs. When you choose to release me your colors with shine forth as well.
Title: The Root of Metamorphosis
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story:The wind blew past me and slapped my face as I stood silent in death. Everything I had known and was learning suddenly stopped. My mother died and with her so did I. For years I stood still and pale. Conciseness grew and I began to dig at my outer layers and I discovered my roots. They were dry and brittle but roots nonetheless. I found fresh fertile soil, dug in and I am abundant again.
Title: The Geography of Hope
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: My answer is love without thought or reason.
Creative and expressive with imagination and passion. Love pours from my soul like a nourishing river after a 40 year drought and peace is the result for 1000 years.
Title: Balancing Energies
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: My eyes are so sharp yet I forget that fundamentally and physically I am a women. In this modern world I have been challenged to blend in and seek equality in a world that is behaving like a run away train. My role as a women is not to blend in. My role is to be the complimentary opposite of the masculine... a powerful female force with equal right to use my energy and voice to speak out while nurturing myself, my family and this planet.
Title: Balancing Energies- version 2
Dimensions: 20X24 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: Sometimes the basic concept or vision of a piece is unsettled... and I don't know it until it comes back on it's own such as this one. Generally this is an indication that I didn't learn everything that it wanted to teach... yet.
Title: 100% chance of REINE
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: I've been a photographer so long that not many people know I was a painter first... and that doesn't matter because REINE is not defined by paint, photograph or technique. This painting marks the day that I no longer labelled myself as something or somebody. It became clear to me that I am here... right now. In this moment I surrender to life, to the path that is unfolding and with the talents that I have discovered I am doing my best daily. Reine means queen and pure. Pure heart and soul.
Title: The Love Tree
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: A wind storm of over 100 kilometres per hour toppled and snapped 1000 trees in Stanley Park. This is one of the trees in the city that I am connected to and I visited it over the next year as its life changed from a provider of shade and a home for birds to a children's play ground on the edge of a growing city.
Two years later, removed from the earth, roots exposed and branches cut it still sent out new shoots of growth during the spring. It was a strong reminder to me of the power of life and the will to live and I wonder what the tree witnessed over the years as we walked, cycled and roller-bladed by that would provide such a will to not give up. Or is it what trees just do?
Title: Love always saves the day. Make it BIG.
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: We are the ones we have been waiting for. The pictures we have in our mind... the thoughts that we think (every second of every day) ARE what we are collectively bringing about. I could easily paint pictures of doom and gloom, deforestation, trafficking of all magnitudes and of hate.... ohhh swirling back holes of hate. The focus of my art is the opposite... the awareness of... and the power to choose. Choose to be positive and great-full in order to manifest the global change we desire. This is an exciting time... we are finally getting the same information at the same time and small changes will create big and beautiful realities. Love is the only thing we have not tried on a global scale... the time has come to make it BIG.
Title: The Bodhi Tree
(co-created with Jonathan Reinarz)
Dimensions: 6X6 feet
Media: Acrylic medium on canvas.
The Story: December 12th, 2006 Jonathan and I came together to create a tree that had been flashing in my mind for weeks. I was unable to hold it back and it wanted to come out so quickly that I asked the fastest artist I knew to help. Jonathan whipped out fluid lines without practice or thought as I blended cramming paint into the canvas in short messy bursts.
The significance of the tree came later in many forms. Within the same week that this was created the wind storm of Stanley Park had occurred pulling down one of the most grounded trees I knew. Earlier in 2006 I wrote a story about a tree with a thick trunk and heart shaped leaves from my imagination. With research... I learned that the Bodhi Tree has three distinct features. I wide, thick trunk, heart shaped leaves and branches that run so long and parallel to the earth that sometimes crutches are placed underneath to hold them up. The Bodhi Tree is also the place that Prince Siddhartha sat to contemplate the worlds miseries. One day Siddhartha meditated under this tree, became enlightened and was renamed Buddha.
As a child I learned the easiest thing I could do was copy anything that someone else has accomplished. I figure if I have one kick at this can called life then enlightenment is on the top of my to do list. After that... something that has never been done before.
Title: She has never been in love. what gives?
Dimensions: 36X36 inches
Media: photographic collage & acrylic medium
The Story: Whether we remain ash or become the phoenix is up to us. We have reached a place in time that if you point your finger one more time... it is just going to get chopped off. wonder why.
Title: Position One, Surrender.
Dimensions: 4X5 feet
Media: Acrylic medium on canvas.
The Story: I forgot that I renamed this one! I also call this position FULL BEAM. Surrender is the most empowering position I've learned. I could explain it it words however it is just better to do. I hope this makes it into yoga and regular meditation practices one day. The essence is to stand still and firmly grounded through your feet while out stretching your arms with your head tilted back. From your heart centre imagine massive amounts of coloured light shooting from your chest and into the world. This is also when I take the time to think healing thoughts and bless the planet.
Title: Carried Through
Dimensions: 4X6 feet
Media: Acrylic medium on Canvas
The Story: Braking through patterns and habits. The good things in life happened when I stopped looking at what other people were doing and focused on what I was not doing and would like to do instead. It took me a long time to break through this pattern and I still have a few remaining pieces around my ankle like tangled fishing line. Daily I pick at the knots to unravel the mess- usually from negative thoughts. The point is IT IS WORTH IT! Once I made the decision to not put up with my own bullshit it came undone.
Notice that position one is also required.
Title: Crossing Over (second attempt)
Dimensions: 4X6 feet
Media: Oil & acrylic medium on canvas
The Story: Reine
Title: The Blue Print
Dimensions: 6X6 feet
Media: Oil & acrylic medium on canvas
The Story: Reine
Title: The Journey
Dimensions: 48X48 inches
Media: Acrylic medium on canvas.
The Story: Reine
Title: Reborn
Dimensions: 4X5 feet
Media: Acrylic medium on canvas
The Story: Reine
Title: The view from Rome
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: In the beginning of time there was a girl who knew exactly what to do but she was so fascinated by life that she got distracted. One day she woke up... meaning she remembered she had work to do. She put on her hard hat and buried her head into the earth to see what needed to be done. By then the trees had grown tall and she could see through their roots up to the tops of their branches and out all over the world.
Title: The Object of Desire
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: Sometimes I hide within a cage of a cage in a vast fortress. A place where the solid and fragile clash yet I am unharmed. I am the magic of the earth, a light... some call me rainbow. It is unnatural for me to be here... but I don't mind. I am here for many and for one. Look towards the unstained sky to find the reminder that I am also trapped behind your protected ribs. When you choose to release me your colors with shine forth as well.
Title: The Root of Metamorphosis
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story:The wind blew past me and slapped my face as I stood silent in death. Everything I had known and was learning suddenly stopped. My mother died and with her so did I. For years I stood still and pale. Conciseness grew and I began to dig at my outer layers and I discovered my roots. They were dry and brittle but roots nonetheless. I found fresh fertile soil, dug in and I am abundant again.
Title: The Geography of Hope
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: My answer is love without thought or reason.
Creative and expressive with imagination and passion. Love pours from my soul like a nourishing river after a 40 year drought and peace is the result for 1000 years.
Title: Balancing Energies
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: My eyes are so sharp yet I forget that fundamentally and physically I am a women. In this modern world I have been challenged to blend in and seek equality in a world that is behaving like a run away train. My role as a women is not to blend in. My role is to be the complimentary opposite of the masculine... a powerful female force with equal right to use my energy and voice to speak out while nurturing myself, my family and this planet.
Title: Balancing Energies- version 2
Dimensions: 20X24 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: Sometimes the basic concept or vision of a piece is unsettled... and I don't know it until it comes back on it's own such as this one. Generally this is an indication that I didn't learn everything that it wanted to teach... yet.
Title: 100% chance of REINE
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: I've been a photographer so long that not many people know I was a painter first... and that doesn't matter because REINE is not defined by paint, photograph or technique. This painting marks the day that I no longer labelled myself as something or somebody. It became clear to me that I am here... right now. In this moment I surrender to life, to the path that is unfolding and with the talents that I have discovered I am doing my best daily. Reine means queen and pure. Pure heart and soul.
Title: The Love Tree
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: A wind storm of over 100 kilometres per hour toppled and snapped 1000 trees in Stanley Park. This is one of the trees in the city that I am connected to and I visited it over the next year as its life changed from a provider of shade and a home for birds to a children's play ground on the edge of a growing city.
Two years later, removed from the earth, roots exposed and branches cut it still sent out new shoots of growth during the spring. It was a strong reminder to me of the power of life and the will to live and I wonder what the tree witnessed over the years as we walked, cycled and roller-bladed by that would provide such a will to not give up. Or is it what trees just do?
Title: Love always saves the day. Make it BIG.
Dimensions: 36X48 inches
Media: Organic cotton, Rice paper, acrylic medium
The Story: We are the ones we have been waiting for. The pictures we have in our mind... the thoughts that we think (every second of every day) ARE what we are collectively bringing about. I could easily paint pictures of doom and gloom, deforestation, trafficking of all magnitudes and of hate.... ohhh swirling back holes of hate. The focus of my art is the opposite... the awareness of... and the power to choose. Choose to be positive and great-full in order to manifest the global change we desire. This is an exciting time... we are finally getting the same information at the same time and small changes will create big and beautiful realities. Love is the only thing we have not tried on a global scale... the time has come to make it BIG.
Title: The Bodhi Tree
(co-created with Jonathan Reinarz)
Dimensions: 6X6 feet
Media: Acrylic medium on canvas.
The Story: December 12th, 2006 Jonathan and I came together to create a tree that had been flashing in my mind for weeks. I was unable to hold it back and it wanted to come out so quickly that I asked the fastest artist I knew to help. Jonathan whipped out fluid lines without practice or thought as I blended cramming paint into the canvas in short messy bursts.
The significance of the tree came later in many forms. Within the same week that this was created the wind storm of Stanley Park had occurred pulling down one of the most grounded trees I knew. Earlier in 2006 I wrote a story about a tree with a thick trunk and heart shaped leaves from my imagination. With research... I learned that the Bodhi Tree has three distinct features. I wide, thick trunk, heart shaped leaves and branches that run so long and parallel to the earth that sometimes crutches are placed underneath to hold them up. The Bodhi Tree is also the place that Prince Siddhartha sat to contemplate the worlds miseries. One day Siddhartha meditated under this tree, became enlightened and was renamed Buddha.
As a child I learned the easiest thing I could do was copy anything that someone else has accomplished. I figure if I have one kick at this can called life then enlightenment is on the top of my to do list. After that... something that has never been done before.
Title: She has never been in love. what gives?
Dimensions: 36X36 inches
Media: photographic collage & acrylic medium
The Story: Whether we remain ash or become the phoenix is up to us. We have reached a place in time that if you point your finger one more time... it is just going to get chopped off. wonder why.
Title: Position One, Surrender.
Dimensions: 4X5 feet
Media: Acrylic medium on canvas.
The Story: I forgot that I renamed this one! I also call this position FULL BEAM. Surrender is the most empowering position I've learned. I could explain it it words however it is just better to do. I hope this makes it into yoga and regular meditation practices one day. The essence is to stand still and firmly grounded through your feet while out stretching your arms with your head tilted back. From your heart centre imagine massive amounts of coloured light shooting from your chest and into the world. This is also when I take the time to think healing thoughts and bless the planet.
Title: Carried Through
Dimensions: 4X6 feet
Media: Acrylic medium on Canvas
The Story: Braking through patterns and habits. The good things in life happened when I stopped looking at what other people were doing and focused on what I was not doing and would like to do instead. It took me a long time to break through this pattern and I still have a few remaining pieces around my ankle like tangled fishing line. Daily I pick at the knots to unravel the mess- usually from negative thoughts. The point is IT IS WORTH IT! Once I made the decision to not put up with my own bullshit it came undone.
Notice that position one is also required.
Title: Crossing Over (second attempt)
Dimensions: 4X6 feet
Media: Oil & acrylic medium on canvas
The Story: Reine
Title: The Blue Print
Dimensions: 6X6 feet
Media: Oil & acrylic medium on canvas
The Story: Reine
Title: The Journey
Dimensions: 48X48 inches
Media: Acrylic medium on canvas.
The Story: Reine
Title: Reborn
Dimensions: 4X5 feet
Media: Acrylic medium on canvas
The Story: Reine
