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.
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“:
I have a friend named Molly who has the funniest blog and I wish I could write funny stories like her. Mind you , she writes about her funny boy Dane and I can’t seem to find anything funny about spending two months working on a painting or reorganizing all of my images into new links on a new website….and so on which is basically what I have been doing for the past few months. Happily, I have also been spending a lot of time working on the upcoming, “Urban Art” show which is my first curating gig and I loved every step of the process. Today, I meet with Jeff at Print It Media as he installs a 6 window wide graphic of a graffiti artist painting the side of the Columbia Art Gallery. I will be sure to post a picture later. The art of friends exhibiting in this show ranging from Whistler, Seattle, Hood River, San Diego and Illinois and more is totally off the hook rad so I hope to see you there! Hood River has never seen anything like it for sure.
I am stoked for my new website and I hope you enjoy navigating around it more easily to find artwork that is available or how to buy prints in two different sizes and formats for different budgets and preferences.
Unfortunately, all of my old blog postings couldn’t be transferred over to this new blog so here I go with a new start. Thank you for tuning in and don’t forget to sign up for “New Work” announcements!…don’t worry , it isn’t even weekly or barely monthly so I won’t be inundating you I promise!