My latest painting ‘Grace’ was created in an experience of being in a sonic ritual journey of sacred North Indian Raga music from cross-cultural jazz musician Jonathan Kay. I am delighted the painting has been selected for an upcoming exhibition in December 2021 in Bologna, Italy, and it will be seen in the January/February 2022 issue of Condé Nast Traveller Magazine. This is the story of how I came to be introduced to Jonathan Kay and his sonic ritual journeys:
Read MoreCan a painting heal another painting? I don’t know… but to be honest, that was the intention behind the painting I ended up titling ‘Archangel’ on its completion in June 2019. Here is my sacred art journey story around its creation:
Read MoreI was pleased to participate in this international art exhibition curated by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery Milano with a global collection of artists focusing on the subject of Gaia…
Read MoreI am so thrilled to have been invited into an international art exhibition curated by M.A.D.S. Milano Art Gallery in Milan Italy…
Read MoreAll month the painting speaks to me, teaches me what it is to surrender. Surrender to what the body wants, needs, craves, demands. You cannot rush the body. Surrender.
Read MoreThis Wild Woman painting evolved in 2018 as I was getting ready to give a talk at a local bookstore where I illuminated the mythical and archetypal elements behind the term and discussed why ‘Wild Woman’ serves as a powerful ally for women’s soul and psyche and helps women to actualize their dreams…
Read MoreIt began as a wish and a prayer: to do some healing around the relationships between mothers and daughters and women in general. I started the painting on the solar eclipse of July 2nd to add some astrological juice to the intention I wrote on the canvas in black charcoal pencil. A background layer of leaves and branches surrounded the outer edges followed by layer upon layer of gold and green, yellow, orange and red. Then three figures emerged…
Read MoreThis summer I’ve been teaching a class at the California Institute of Integral Studies. I had the rare privilege of being able to interview two writers, each deeply involved with ecology, conservation and natural resource management in different ways.
Read MoreA year ago I made a commitment to just show up each morning and paint before anything else. Why did I do that? It was an act of surrender. Surrender to the realization that painting, more than anything else I did, moved my energy and gave me a sense of freedom and joy.
Painting teaches me that everything in the painting experience is a metaphor for life.
Radio podcast interview with Kathy Stanley on upcoming sacred art journey workshops.
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