Just Casting About
Through the layers of the heart, in the deep, the vast Mystery lives
Category Painting
An Inspired Collaboration
This is a collaboration from one of our mates from our ongoing art group. Elisabeth Gladstone’s images along with Christian Doering’s music. If you would like to find out more about Christian, you can follow him on his YouTube channel.…
Exuberant Circuitry
Finding One’s Beat
Deepening our Relationship to the Imaginal
As a result of yesterday’s meditation and the resulting painting, I made a decision regarding a problem I wasn’t resolving that had been taking its toll mentally and emotionally, when I see the resulting image all thoughts were resolved and…
More Classes Coming in the Fall
In the fall, we will add more classes to become available for sign up. Level 1 : Mark making for non artists. Level 2: Marking making next steps for non artists. Level 3 Mark making for artists and non artists…
New Class Being Offered
Mark Making for People Who Can’t Draw An experimental, informal gathering to re-introduce ourselves to markmaking materials and the experiences they evoke. Six sessions, free of charge. We will convene via Zoom, 4 – 5:30 pm Pacific Time, on Mondays…
Art Making as Training for Death
Glimpses into the Vastness
It’s not that you attain the goal, but that all the light in the universe, falling toward you forever, finally arrives in your body. Excerpt from Another Cup, Savor Eternity One Moment at a Time Alfred K. Lamotte
Courting the Imaginal
Sweep Clean the chambers of the heart. We glimpse into the vastness of other realities by observing, our inner terrain to allow ourselves to be available for what the imaginal wishes to express. We listen and see the image and…
Slowly Slowly
Esso Esso The times are urgent; let us slow down. African saying As we listen to our bodies, our inner life, and to process the world at large, we move into a quiet, hidden, protected space to allow our vulnerablities…
Befriending the lack of Control
One remarkable thing about engaging with markmaking that includes water is that, when we add water to an initial water-soluble mark we have made, that mark begins to MOVE…it bleeds into adjacent marks…it sends a narrow stream down the page…it…