Artfelt - Intuitive Art

Who out there has had a ‘spiritual experience’? I’m guessing many of you have, whether it’s simply a dream or a gut feeling, but we seldom talk about them as it isn’t quite ‘normal’ to experience such things. I have felt for a long time that it is becoming more normal, and I feel excited every time I meet someone that I learn has.   There are many things I could write that I have experienced, but I hesitate. Maybe one day I will. I would love this blog to be a place where people have courage to share their personal experiences, including me.   Most people except that we are spiritual beings, as we can agree that most of our conditions are spiritual; our thoughts, our creativity, our memories, our emotions…and more.  During my own spiritual walk, especially around twenty years ago when I first connected with the Divine Spirit in a way I could have never imagined, I noticed that Native American people would come to visit me during either dreams or meditations. This beauti...

It dawned on me one day, a few years after I painted Evita, that maybe I could paint “Guardian Paintings" for people…Yeah I believe we have guides, people that we have a heart connection with. O.k, I’ll paint one for myself, a guardian portrait, and see how it goes.   It started as an oval shape for a face, lot’s of blue paint, a bit strange, but with this intuitive process, I try to let go and go with it…There will often always be a point in the painting where I will look at it and think, no, it’s not working. This isn’t going to look right. But I let go and just keep painting. Painting is magic, it layers, it can be thick or translucent. It’s very forgiving. I try never to be afraid of paint strokes or strange colours that may suddenly appear from mixing. I had no idea who I was painting. The hair came, long hair, so I thought o.k, female. The face looked kind and brave, the hair had red/copper flecks coming down. A beautiful head piece crossed her brow, then as I was finis...