All creative endeavours are healing for the soul. Every time we lose ourselves in creative enjoyment we fill up with an energy that is of the universe. It is light and love and it heals us - the creator, and others as the viewers.
Showing posts with label oil painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oil painting. Show all posts
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Monday, 13 March 2017
Free Expression at The Oracle Gallery
Since I began teaching art, I have taught students from 1 - 86 years old.
Most students seem to prefer working with oil paint as it moves and flows. This is very important when you are painting without an idea. It allows for constant change until the process of creation reveals forms on the canvas.
In my classes there are no rules of how to paint.
The palettes are loaded up with an abundant supply of colourful paint, and creation begins.
I provide cloths for hands as we mainly work with our fingers, and I encourage clean, bright, clarity of colour as this helps clean our chakras within.
There is no subject, there is only colour and the joy of making marks and colours that are your own signature expression.
Everyone has their own unique way of working. Their own unique colour palette that they get through mixing the paints rather like scientists.
All colour carries its own special note / code, and some of the younger students will mix as many as eight colours together.
There is always gentle music playing as well as plenty of conversation and plenty of silence.
I help a student where necessary until the canvas is completely covered with colour.
Next we sit back and observe the canvas and rotate it to see which way 'feels' the right way up.
This doesn't have to be the final way - all is fluid.

Often at this stage forms will be clearly visible within the art - figures or animals. Trees or flowers.
The process of creation becomes more exciting as I help to 'bring out' the elements that have revealed themselves.
Only then will I introduce one rule -
Where it is dark, make it a tone darker.
Where it is light, make it a tone lighter.
As we do this the shapes and forms come to life as they begin to 'pop.'
The top image on this page is an original oil on canvas by Dayzii Wright.
Most students seem to prefer working with oil paint as it moves and flows. This is very important when you are painting without an idea. It allows for constant change until the process of creation reveals forms on the canvas.
In my classes there are no rules of how to paint.
The palettes are loaded up with an abundant supply of colourful paint, and creation begins.
I provide cloths for hands as we mainly work with our fingers, and I encourage clean, bright, clarity of colour as this helps clean our chakras within.
There is no subject, there is only colour and the joy of making marks and colours that are your own signature expression.
Everyone has their own unique way of working. Their own unique colour palette that they get through mixing the paints rather like scientists.
All colour carries its own special note / code, and some of the younger students will mix as many as eight colours together.
There is always gentle music playing as well as plenty of conversation and plenty of silence.
I help a student where necessary until the canvas is completely covered with colour.
Next we sit back and observe the canvas and rotate it to see which way 'feels' the right way up.
This doesn't have to be the final way - all is fluid.

Often at this stage forms will be clearly visible within the art - figures or animals. Trees or flowers.
The process of creation becomes more exciting as I help to 'bring out' the elements that have revealed themselves.
Only then will I introduce one rule -
Where it is dark, make it a tone darker.
Where it is light, make it a tone lighter.
As we do this the shapes and forms come to life as they begin to 'pop.'
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Indigo, Crystal and Rainbow Children
Since I began teaching in 2008 it has become apparent that not all children are the same.In fact there are Indigo, Crystal, Rainbow children and Liquid Crystal children.
For years I have been studying people as they came and went from my shop Christmas Cottage, and this continued as it transitioned into the Oracle Gallery.
For many years I have sat painting while people come in and out of the gallery and because the children were so interested in what I was doing, I started to offer art classes.
But not all children were interested. Many breezed in and out quickly with or without their parents.
The ones that I became particularly interested in were the ones that came in and went
''WOW!"
I was not interested because they tickled my ego, but rather because they could SEE and FEEL.A huge number came in without parents and then implored them to come in and see, because they were so excited. They then would start begging their parents to let them stay for a class.
There was always something so magical about their energy and their eyes would twinkle knowingly when they spoke to me.
I would do impromptu classes throughout the days and would teach one to one if there were no other children about. The one to one classes were particularly powerful as it was as if spirit had caused it to be set up exactly in this way for this child's learning from me and visa versa.
I found that I didn't have to discuss anything with the children. I just showed them techniques of how to draw and joined in with them on their creations. I took them on an energy journey.The more children that came, the more an energy was building in the gallery, and so even more came.
Many of them were eleven and made sure they told me early on in conversation. I began understanding this as a gateway age where they were ready to understand more.
The children started to tell me what they could hear and see and know and it became a regular conversation
'What entities can you see?'
We would talk about energy and portals and different dimensions. These children were different.
They had come here to help shift the consciousness of the people, so that the planet can be saved.
They had been programmed to find me on earth by tuning into an energy signature - the energy of spirit, which is what they recognised and felt the moment they entered the gallery.
Artwork by students at the Oracle Gallery - see more on Facebook.
Monday, 11 January 2010
A New Way
One of the key things to accomplish in life is to work out who and what you ARE NOT, and what you don't want and are not willing to put up with.Everything else that is left is where you start from.
I am that I am.
My higher self, Monad, helped by guides, a channel.
Who does speak? Who am I, and who are we?
Remembering that we are not just the body and mind that we see is huge, and I believe pivotal in all crisis of mental health.
Maybe it is the purpose of mental ill health - so that we begin the journey of searching for who we truly are.
First of all you read about it, then maybe accept it as a concept. You fight against it, forget it, until, after numerous situations of being at rock bottom, you suddenly see a chink of light and you remember that the realm of spirit is your home, and that you are merely here as a visitor.
Life as you knew it completely changes because you understand that your key purpose for being here is to learn. You weren't a mishap or born by mistake. You chose to come here, and you chose your parents.
I remember wrestling with my ego for ages. I just couldn't rationalise Archangels, and yet I'd seen one clearly in my bedroom one morning, sat beautifully on my windowsill.The idea that I had lived other lifetimes also seemed crazy until I had a past life regression and then learned how to regress myself.
Clearing out all old energies, and cleansing the environment with crystals and smudging is very important.
Energy needs space to move and flow around your home.
My awareness of the energy that is in objects was a gradual one. I use to own my own shop - Christmas Cottage and along with my artwork I had the shop stacked with stock displayed in every available space.
Then I noticed something. If I had just done a display and laid everything out beautifully and stood back thinking how beautiful everything looked, stuff from this display would start to sell immediately.
I slowly came to realise that too much stuff meant that I couldn't energise it all properly, and so things wouldn't sell and there would be a stuck energy.
I then learned about crystals and smudging with Californian white sage. The crystals are important for gridding a space - one in each corner, so that your boundaries are protected. Both the smudge stick and crystals are important to cleanse the space of any negative or toxic energy from yourself or from anyone else. They keep the energy clear so that you can have a quieter mind and a higher energy.When I need an area cleansing with a smudge stick I always hand it over to the archangels to cleanse the space in the highest possible Divine Light, as they will do a far better job than I.
Crystals need to be regularly put outside under the full moon. I lay mine out on the soil and let them get rained on a few nights before I bring them back in when they are pinging with energy.
Chanting helps reset the mental pathways. Perfect before meditation as it sandpapers the mind of all thoughts.
I've always loved Aum mani padme hum or the Gayatri Mantra.
In 1999, when working on an art project with friend and composer Sarah Class, I played one track of her music on repeat for several months. At this time I had no idea about mantra and no understanding of spirit. Little did I know the effects of high vibration music on repeat.
The result was an ability to channel art. I had no more thoughts left. I just was - a vessel / tube for energy to flow through me onto a canvas. I was merely the observer.You find your true self once you have stripped away the chatter. It is a band of energy.
What is this energy like?
It is so subtle and ebbs and slips away without you even being aware.
A vigilant practice is important - especially in the early days. I was painting for most of the day for fifteen years. I found it the only way that I could stay on top of the voices that I could hear form inside.
Having been a trained nurse and worked at St Pancras Hospital as part of my psychiatric nursing experience, I would say that I definitely am not mental, and yet I can hear voices - both good and bad.
How I understand it now is - I am a clear channel, and so I can hear helpful guidance. When I am not a clear channel - through drink or drugs or toxic living, I hear voices that are not pleasant and they come from inside me, but are not mine.The last time that I had an imposter within, it gave me enough of a sensation as I observed it, that I could clearly realise that I was totally separate from it and that it had come in through my crown chakra.
Work towards positivity in everything as negativity and gossip are of a lower vibration and only serve to lead you further away from yourself.
Be filled with joy and love, because you can.
Breathe in light and anchor it into the earth.
Draw down the light through art, or meditation, music or contemplation.
Work with the light to heal the planet and the people, to raise consciousness . To en light en.
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