The world feels overwhelming with change and uncertainty. to hold both knowing and unknowing in a delicate, dynamic, and highly creative tension is one of the primary skills we need if we want to live with courage and wisdom in an unstable climate. art for a burning world is about finding wonder and nurturing creativity within us. it can help us express ourselves, connect and tend to one another in community, and offer resilience in our uncertain and sometimes terrifying world. we can’t let any current despair strangle our imaginations nor do we want to join a caravan of despair.
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Wonder is the origin for creativity, imagination + resilience.
“If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else, we must see our neighbors with our imagintioon as well as our eyes. That is to say like arasts, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.”
– FREDERICK BUECHNER
Our paintings are nearly always non-representational. We create together on the same
canvas forging ideas together that we could not create alone. Working in acrylic and mixed
media, we use hand stretched canvas on wooden bars or paint directly on wood. Before we
begin an original painting, we inscribe the un-gessoed canvas with a blessing, poem, or
intention for the earth and our more than human world. You will receive a copy of that
meditation, along with our journal notes on the painting, in a stitched fabric pocket. Our
paintings are always signed on the back along with our studio seal.
Being in conversation with other artists past and present. A dialogue
We live and make art at the boundary of chaos and finding order. Join us for our art
workshop and discover ways of finding unity with the world, with each other and with the
Creator Spirit.
Hope is the story of uncertainty, of coming to terms with the risk involved in not knowing what
comes next, which is more demanding than despair and, in a way more frightening, and
immeasurably more rewarding. By living out hope and resistance in public together with
strangers of all kinds, we can overcome together the catechism of fear. Through the language of
art and the conversations that come from creating together, we can begin to trust in one
another and the community it forms once again. We create something together that none of us
could create alone. (Painting around the table)
Art Improv: Painting together to create a communal piece of art that leans into our collective
energy. This is more than a communal painting. It’s a quiet conversation between our ancestors
– where the past holds space for the present, and the present honors the past. We create
something together none of us could create alone.
We are artists and spouses that work together at the intertwining of Art, Earth, and Spirit.
We believe through the arts we can restore wonder by engaging our imaginations and
creativity to become more resilient and focused to face a rapidly changing and uncertain
world. With good courage,
Sense wonder feel the radiance
Blessed are those who hunger for earth's oneness. (Matthew 5 v. 6)
May the deep blessings of earth be with us.
May the fathomless soundings of seas surge in our soul.
May boundless stretches of the universe echo in our depths,
to open us to wonder,
to strengthen us to love,
to humble us with gratitude,
that we may find ourselves in one another,
that we may lose ourselves in gladness
that we give ourselves to peace.
(from John Philip Newell)
Beyond the visual pleasure your works provide, the answer for us can be summed up in one word - hope! There can be differences, but through conflicts, separations, and obstacles of all kinds, there is still room for reconciliation and a sharing of values, purpose and hope.
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