The First Question – What is Stirring Inside of You?
This is not about hearing a voice on the outside, such as the latest news happenings, T.V. shows, Family issues, etc. This is about looking inward, deep within, in the heart of your soul. What stays with you for days and weeks, maybe [...]
Visio Divina – Have you ever Hit a Creative Wall while Painting a Picture?
This past week while working on this painting of “The World Within; a Journey in Meditation,” the creative door slammed shut. No creative “juices” were flowing…nada..nothing, I was at a stand still! Can you identify? This process seems to happen periodically to [...]
Creating Visio Divina
In today’s blog I’ll show how I develop a mystical or contemplative painting.
This type of painting would classically be called “Visio Divina” or “Divine Seeing”. If you would like more information, there is an earlier blog written on this subject. Because of my work as a spiritual director and a practitioner of [...]
The Power of Image
The eyes are the window to the soul. “Images” influence you and me everyday through advertising, entertainment and news shows, magazines, etc and everything we look at in daily life. These images speak to us and influence our lives, as individuals, as a culture and how we “picture” life. [...]
In the Name of the Lord,
God of Israel,
Be Michael to my right,
Gabriel to my left,
In front of me, Uriel,
Behind me Raphael, and
Over my head the Divine Presence of God
Before bedtime, it is traditional [...]
Angelic Choirs
My Teacher of Spiritual Art!
Let me introduce you to Hildegard, who has been my primary teacher in spiritual art and greatly influenced my work.
A History
Hildegard of Bingen was an Abbess of a Benedictine Abbey, she was born in 1098 and died after a long rich life in 1179. Besides [...]
ART FOR THE HEART….Comes from…..ART FROM THE HEART
Today we will begin to explore the many steps to creating spiritual or mystical art. I will start with origins of Christian mystical art and later we will study Jewish and Eastern origins; as the methods and principals are very similar in all spiritual art.
So [...]