A traveler and artist & creative designer for Sacred Tree Art Studio, I search for iconography on my journeys to enhance and guide my creations. There are no boundaries when it comes to what is made or collected for our studio shopping experience. Encouraging strength and hope, promise and light we are on the path to make hand crafted a part of everyones art collection.
Painting on Balinese prayer paper. The bear is a powerful symbol to many cultures. For Native Americans, this beautiful relative is considered a protector of family, conjuring strength and the continuation of life. I had been feeling the need for direction regarding a few decisions I needed to make and the Bear kept showing itself in my dreams. So I allowed the bear into my day mind and started to paint. The prayer paper came to me a few years back and I had been holding onto it… so prayers and blessings, strength and honor. Mato!
As the days pass, many of the teachings I have been given lead to the same idea… have gratitude for the things in your life: loved ones, food, warm home, health, job, transportation, freedom etc. I could go on. When I stop to meditate on my morning walks in the woods, I find that gratitude the old ones talk about. Let’s be grateful together!
For me the quiet time is always a blessing. I enjoy the solitude and the lack of interruptions. However I have found myself longing for the laughter of others and the energy that I feel when I’m with my friends and family .
As I’ve taking long walks in the morning 8 have seen flowers grow from tiny sprouts into beautiful blossoms. I have seen my garden go from seeds to food baring. I’ve even gotten to know the squirrels that visit in the mornings for a snack, by the color of their fur, scars or size of their tails . The blessing is that I have have the chance to notice these things being given this time .
So recently I was thinking about my upcoming winter holiday show and there will definitely be modifications. I am a ceramist, but there will be very little ceramic work since I do not have access to the studio kiln, which is in a public place .
I have turned my focus to paintings where I am feeling the influences of spiritual practices, these ceremonies which keep us grounded, in the blessings of today.
My jewelry designs and production are influenced by antiquities, southwest western and Italian beads, world travel, powerful stones, hand crafted African beads and more. Each piece is one of a kind and made for the wearer to benifit from its powerful influences. It may become the only thing you want to wear.
moonstone and crystal focal point with hand wrapped silver wire.
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