Welcome!  To begin let me thank you for spending time here. It would be great if you returned again-maybe often!  Animals, art and life are so amazing when they connect. They are my world of conversations in paint. Last night, gazing out of the large picture window in my bedroom I was struck by the clarity of the stars dancing across the luminous purple black sky. A sight we do not often experience in an urban concrete jungle existence. Something tingles with excitement as my blinking eyes adjust to the darkness of the unfolding magic at hands length.  Although I have been in this new home, on 11,000 acres of Victorian country, for nearly a month, the beauty of the night sky had not filtered through my sleep. Perhaps I had re-opened the door to my aliveness today.  I felt ‘broken open’ as it were, familiar, alive with the cognizance of inner beauty that is easily felt when mindfully in nature.  Why is it that we so easily forget to allow our creative source in each moment, giving it a voice inside all the seemingly practical mundanety of the every day. Why was it that this night sky touched me now? What was the catalyst? I remembered earlier feeling enriched by the words of the awesome writer / I think, philosopher, Susan Chernak McELroy, in her latest blog about endings and beginnings, compost and decay. Her words incentive for me to permit the old to dissipate allowing the new to reveal itself. I realized a letting go of the fear deep in my core, the perfectionist not being good enough to expand to unknown horizons, rather an almost imperceptible desire to re connect with past creative wanderings that I knew would work. Susan’s writing confront me with nature/inner nature in a way that I do know, however, don’t make the connection in daily life. To me it feels like connecting with the true instrument of nature that is inherent in each of use deep below the voluminous layers of our conditioning. In this realm everything flows easily without mind conflict. From here it was easy to take up paint and brush, peacefulness flowing from my iPod in the sounds of the Subway Bhaktis [ref: great music out of Byron Bay.  [http://subwaybhaktis.com] as I pondered, momentarily, in a meditative state letting go of any damaging thoughts about starting this creative journey. And ‘whoosh’, there is was, colour flowing effortlessly onto the white canvas, reconnecting me with my intuitive art process, Vision Drawing, drawing out my inner visions.  With the curiosity of a child I was engaged in the Here-Now; marvelling in timeless creative bliss. So it is about seeing the beauty in all past experiences that enrich the abundant ground of today. Bring excitement into the unknown and bounce fearlessly into every new creative adventure with longing to see what is hidden just below the surface of your consciousness. I do hope you can follow these ramblings!  I am working on not editing or judging, seeing what is there for me. I am not a writer rather a creator of stories in paint. After 30 years of painting I know what process thrills me, yet so often I fall into unconscious methods. This is why I share Vision Drawing as a concept with you. Putting the experience down on paper helps me articulate in a way that hopefully others can receive. Here is the beginning of the painting that inspired my vision of the night sky. You can see how the warm colours intermingle.  I created texture by ‘breaking the surface’ of the original colours with rags, plastic, brush and fingers. The resultant paint surface, broken into a kaleidoscope of form and shape gives birth to imagery and symbols as if from a vision.

So for now it is back to the studio. I will continue to journal about Vision Drawing in the hope that you will take something of value away for your own use.  Meantime keep your days and ways creative…….blaze