Light and shadow, and art healing
Light and shadow, and art healing
New paintings: the 'Light Series' is about how the light and dark need each other to exist.
Hello friends, I’ve been experimenting with light and shadow in my work this week, working from a different perspective than I am usually aware of doing. Along the way, I completed another 6 small paintings on paper, called the Light Series.
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New work and inspiration: the Light Series
I am starting to see new growth happening, within myself and my work.
I’ve spent the past few months working on expanding myself as an abstract artist, and at the same time I’ve been pouring lots of energy into my psychic work too. If you didn’t already know it, I’ve worked as a clairvoyant reader and medium and psychic teacher for the past 25 years.
I’m seeing new growth and significant change in both areas, and until I started writing this week’s newsletter, I hadn’t quite consciously realized this out loud. So here I go making sure I validate this for myself.
I’m an artist who loves abstraction and color. I’m a clairvoyant who loves energy, spirit, and of course, color. These two paths I’m on work very nicely together, I’m certain they enhance each other too.
A lot of what’s working for me as an artist is that I’m doing it for myself, because I enjoy it. I want to continue to grow as an artist, not to have others tell me how good I am, but because it pleases me.
As a psychic and teacher, I love helping others see that they too can grow for themselves, and they have the right to do so even if others in their life want them to stay the same. Meh humbug is how I feel about holding back for others. I will encourage anyone who comes to me looking for a wee push to keep growing for themselves, because they want to do so.
I enjoy saying hello to the light, and not being afraid to see or say hello to the dark. I accept and can work with both.
So when the Light Series appeared to me, I didn’t yet think of it as such.
I’ve been playing with different ways of thinking about painting, and how I want to paint, and meanwhile, there’s a whole lot of worldwide change happening, a never ending election season filled with a lot of scary characters in the USA, and two massively destructive hurricanes. Climate change is real, democracy is threatened here and abroad, the shadows have seemed endless.
I was thinking about how light and shadow simply do not exist without each other. So I decided to paint the light in relationship to the dark. In a painting, they enhance each other, as they do in art of all kinds.
Light alone can be too brash, too bright at times, especially without any shadow or nuance. The dark can be mystery, depth, and add interest to the light, while the light shines for the dark to be seen too.
Neither is all good or bad, nothing in life is really that simple.
We may sometimes believe we want life to be all blissfully uncomplicated and easy, but that’s not what any of us came here for. We get bored if we don’t have a challenge, something to learn, a way to expand and grow. Going through tough times helps us evolve and create new ways of being and living here together.
This doesn’t mean life has to be harsh, painful, and scary all of the time either. I don’t have a simple answer for you, and you wouldn’t want mine anyway because you’re finding yours for yourself too. But I do believe as long as we allow there to be light and dark, and to find a balance that works for us, we can learn and grow.
Inspiration for healing with art
We need and require art and artists for our health on all levels!
Documentary to see: ‘Will & Harper’ is beautiful!
I loved this film, just saw it this week, and I highly recommend it. It’s a heart filled film, and great timing for our evolution on this earth towards learning how to really have love for each other, and defend each other’s right to simply exist as we choose to be.
Music helps us heal on every level of being.
As I write this I’m listening to classical violin, later I’ll switch over to Irish fiddle, and probably round out the dinner hour with jazz. I may need a rock and roll break today too, it depends.
Music educates us in so many ways, and is so very healing, for each and everyone of us.
Thank you for reading and subscribing to my newsletter. Please share with anyone you think might like this too! Love, Kris