From Words to Images

I started painting to make sense of some experiences that were beyond the language of words. It was more of a prompting than a decision.

After more than a decade of writing articles for New Zealand magazines, something beyond the language of words was seeking expression. It was unseen, unsaid, subtle and soulful. The soul speaks in music, movement, metaphor...and image.

I started to paint.

"If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint." Edward Hopper

Painting the Invisible...?

When I began painting I was also beginning to play a lot of music as part of my creative process. This combo re-arranged and re-tuned my being.

Gradually, dynamic patterns started emerging in the spaces around each subject in the painting, enfolding and enlivening them. 

And so began my journey into energetic vibration - nature’s pattern language. It’s a language that belongs to all of us but that most of us have forgotten. The plants, the creatures, the oceans and the cosmos still remember. My paintings help remind us of these energetic fields that form and inform us, and they stir some long-ago recognition of living as more full-sized humans. 

Some evoke deep soulful responses, and some are simply playful.

ONCE UPON A PAINTING. The Art of Energy

Most of my paintings are wrapped in stories of why and how they were born, and it's time now to weave the words and the images together. It's time to tell more of their tales and to let them tease us with their magic and mystery. So I've just released a book that enables you to hold their magic in your hands.

SEE THE BOOK

My studio

I live and work from my tiny studio on the coast in the far north of New Zealand where the earth, the sea, and the sky are nourishing on every level. Here we can walk barefoot, we swim in the sea, and we sit around fires under the stars. Sometimes dolphins and orcas cruise past on their seasonal pathways. Ancient basalt columns broadcast from their coastal cliffsides, and kiwi calls massage the night air. All of this naturally connects us to something greater than ourselves, and to each other. 

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"I am truly honoured to eventually have one of your works - especially one which means so much to me. You possibly don't know how much." Ger

"The two paintings have given my heart a song of remembrance and my soul a place of uplift." Simone