Illuminara

I was searching through my stacks of sketchbooks going back many years. I saw this page, and it seemed to want to be seen today. This is the first day of school in Westport, and this fairy in the “Time for Change” bubble made me smile. My prayer and wish is that all the children [...]

We were in Fundy National Park in Canada, camping, and all wanted to see a moose. There were several places you could possibly see one in the wild. One was a deep and delicate forest which had a meandering trail close to water, leading to Lac Laverty. We set out mid-afternoon. I was enchanted by [...]

I am not sure why, but when I began this Spirit Painting, commissioned by the mother of a girl under the age of 10, I felt strongly compelled to paint a “blue person”. There was no way around it. Every time I painted a figure (many have come and gone underneath this layer of paint), [...]

“Some nights are fairy nights
Before you go to bed
You hear their darling music
go chiming in your head;
You look into the garden,
and through the misty grey
You see the trees all waiting
in a breathless kind of way.
All the stars are smiling;
they know that very soon
The fairies will come singing
from the land behind the moon.”
from SOMETIMES, a poem [...]

I am painting a Spirit Painting for a child who I have not met. At this stage in the painting, I felt so compelled to do “ancient light”, the light of the world as it has given sunshine to the planet long before our understanding of time. This child has knowing as golden as the [...]

I drew this elf on a leaf, breathing diamonds.
Snow is coming. I walk on dead grass and patches of frosted leaves, small palettes of bejeweled, crystal-contoured greenery. The ground is frozen and ungiving. Snow from days ago surrounds it, and sparkles. The air is as cool as good air from higher climes, and feels fresh, [...]

For many years I’ve been drawing and painting tree spirits. For several months now I’ve been working on a painting (which is to be in a show at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in the Boston area in March) that is all about nature spirits, and the tree spirits keep coming up. In my [...]

I painted this gnome years ago as part of a fund raiser for the library in the town where we used to live. Our house today looks a little like this, we’re all cozy by a whistling fire. We’re waiting for a snow storm, a big blizzard. Could it be that my Winter Angel painting [...]

We were in Scotland for Christmas, visiting family. On that Christmas morning, freezing white fog whirled in the air. I had agreed to go to church with my parents-in-law, but my husband did not wish to. He was the lucky one. When we got back from church he said that while we were away, he’d [...]

While creating this painting, which I have now taken and begun to add to three connecting paintings, I was inspired by an angelic message coming through for a beloved friend.( In fact, the painting was originally for her, but then another was “born” instead.) I was holding crystals in my hands and feeling the mysteriousness [...]