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

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. :)

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.

I was thrilled to be asked to do the poster designs for Kristin Boese and Sky Solbach’s inaugural Kite Surf Pro tour which kicks off in September in Mauritius.

 www.kspworldtour.com

For my Urban Circus series, I liked this play on words suggesting that the city life is a circus and in my images the animals escape their circus confines to a life of freedom. In the first painting “Urban Circus” the female entity acts as an energetic conduit and support of freedom urging the elephants to be courageous and seek their freedom in grace.   In “Urban Circus in Flight”, zebras instead of horses on the carousel are fleeing their circus setting as suggestions of other forms of “flight” are found such as swings, planes or aeronautical flight maps. Prices and dimensions can be found on my “Available work link“: