The beauty of a blank canvas is that I get to paint whatever I want. There's no one looking over my shoulder, saying paint this or that, I get to decide. In a world full of external directives, it is reassuring to know that someplace in my life I have absolute control over what happens. The conversation is internal, between me, myself and I. Despite all of the creative freedom, there is some trepidation when faced with the blank canvas, it's so lovely and white, why mess it up with all that paint? But then I do and the journey begins. Ideas shift and the painting takes shape, sometimes agonizingly, but it does take shape.
I meditate to get many of the images that I produce. This brings a different dynamic to the process of creating art. The painting is often the result of a collaboration of energies, angels and other celestial beings. Most of my new works reflect this process.
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