Thanks Kelli for the honour of painting this 787 Boeing as your Christmas present to your sweetheart, I am so glad you love it.

That hole in the wall on the top right side is where a painting sold and was taken home to go under a Christmas tree. :)

Nov 4-6 marked the days of the Vancouver Yoga Conference where I sold both originals, giclees and prints of my Buddha Art. I secured  7 new US and Canada based yoga studios to sell my buddha art prints and the feedback on my art was sooooo overwhelmingly supportive that I have decided to do the Toronto Yoga Conference for a second time in March 2012. woohoo!!

This commission was just completed for a friend in the aircraft industry…actually his fiance comissioned me as it will be her Christmas present to him. :)

This event launches in three weeks and Kristin Boese , Sky Solbach and crew will have finally pulled off the inaugural Kite Surf Pro tour 2011. I am honoured to be the featured artist invited to create surf art for their posters.

Friends Kristin Boese and Sky Solbach will be hosts to their inaugural Kite Surf Pro tour which starts in Mauritius, then onto Cabo Verde and this painting will be featured on their 2011 final event in Peru in October. Sky was just here for dinner the other night and gave it the thumsb up, yaay!

I laid the background layers back in January and set it aside as I could see a far east landscape (Guilin, Chinaperhaps?)  there but wasn’t sure what should also be in the composition to give it that finished feeling. I had also been working on a Guan Yin figure for almost a year and voila, they ended going together beautifully. This measures 18 x 24 and is many layers of acrylic. I will take it with me for display in my booth at the Vancouver Yoga Conference in November.

Guan Yin, is known as the Buddha or Goddess of Compassion in both Japanese and Chinese traditions. She sits in a waterfall like a blessing just as compassion rests near us all like an offering waiting to be noticed. One has to look closely to find compassion and then one can live more abundantly and less in self centredness and ego which is where all suffering begins.