New Work- Transition with Song

New Work…let  me know what you think, I am a starving for attention artists dontcha know…and its been 4.5 months for new, I mean really new work so revel or throw money…either one works.

‘Transition with Song’

24″  X  18″ x 1″

Oils/Mixed Media

$475.00 USD with free shipping to anywhere in the world.

Here is the quote that helped the work along:

 ”I strew flowers. Not one shall I find without scattering its petals before thee…and I will sing… I will sing always, even if my roses must be gathered amidst thorns: and the longer and sharper the thorns; the sweeter shall be my song.”

~St. Teresa of Lisieux

Raw & Radiant,

Heather

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You will find it in the 2011 Gallery….it’s the first of the year….you know you want it.

 

New Art- Impersonal Divinity -it’s what you make of it.

“Impersonal Divinity”

18″ x 24″

Oils on gallery wrapped canvas, needs no frame, painted sides and comes ready to hang

Available for purchase on my web site in the 2010 Gallery

Here are the quotes that helped this work along its path:

“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”
-Ludwig Feuerbach

AND

“Not necessity, not desire –no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything –health, food, a place to live, entertainment –they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.”
 -Friedrich Nietzsche

Many cultures worldwide, have mythology about Gods, Goddesses, and people who sport horns. The overall history for horned people is, (with the exception of some forms of Christianity, who demonized ancient mythology to created the Devil, and to help convert pagans (witches) into their belief system) that horns represent a connection with a higher power, the God-head, the Creator. In most circles of world study, this is commonly is refered to as the Horned God Myth.

I use horns to represent the animal/divine earth nature, the connection to higher-power wisdom, and to the feelings of rebellious freedom. I take back the history and reinterpret it with a modern twist.

This painting is a work about you, the viewer. Depending upon your internal dialogue, your systems of belief and faith, your systems of fear and self-awareness, your reaction to this work is revealing of your nature at this time. Do you see a picture of the devil? A shaman? A mythological creature? Evil? Good? Provocation on your belief system? It all depends on your mental state and state of awareness, personal history and levels of judgement. I think that is interesting.

This work is about the act of demonization that seems to be running rampant in our modern culture. Don’t understand something, someone, some other religion, culture, lifestyle? Well, then fear, hate and demonization are the order of the day. I don’t agree with that stance, I know there is a middle ground, a gray area if you will.

That is why he is painted in gray-scale, to represent that middle ground. You might think this work is of a certain race of human, but is he? His wide nose, large lips, broad forehead, may define him to you as being of one race or another. It’s not clear and that’s the point. That is my point. You don’t know, but your gut reaction to this simple work, should tell you a little more about yourself. Are you happy? Mad? Interested in the history? What are you feeling? Please feel free to share that feeling or to not share it as you see fit. Just don’t ignore that feeling, live with it and let it help you sort out what you really believe is true for you. It’s important that we discover our own truths, so that we might better facilitate understanding and peace amongst ourselves.

I want to convey my thoughts on the unknown, the different, the sacred. Those thoughts are simply this, demonization of the different is an act of violence and hatred. It never elevates it only destroys what is possible. It is evil. It is destructive and immoral. It is an act of hate and fear. It is useless to human beings, unless…it is being used to enslave, subordinate and control.

The most glorious thing about being human is that under everything, the skin, the religion, the cultures, the rules…we are all human. Blood, bone, organs, hearts, spirit and mind. Under our skin, and clothing we are truly a family of human. The differenced between us are our greatest gifts to each other. Diversity is freedom. We can reach a place where we are all on the same level…that of being human. I don’t have to agree with you, to love you, to learn from you or to protect your freedom ( or my own) to be or become what you (or I) desire to be.

It’s  true.

We don’t have to draw lines in the sand over difference, we could choose to see that we are all one family, the family of man. We could stop the desire to control, to rule, to over protect the ideas of self, to have the most of anything or everything in order to have more power. We could choose to embrace the differences and stop trying to rule over each other. We could choose love, peace and understanding…we really could.  

This work is a celebration of the art of evolution. The evolution of wisdom, peace, understanding and virtue that I know humanity could one day reach. I pray everyday for this to be so. I pray for peace, and I know it begins within me and you….one heart and soul at a time.

Thanks for being here today, I sure appreciate you all.

Heather

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Wake up call- Do what YOU Can DO

Go eat a frog by HMBT (C) 2010

Hello world,

I know that this is art blog, so to all of my friends,patrons and fans I humbly ask for your ear and a moment of your time. Please understand that I can’t create easily right now for I am full of emotions, facts and figures. I am speaking of the worldwide crisis that can no longer be classified as and “oil spill”. *Warning there is a smattering of foul language in this post, so if that will offend you, just click away now. I will not-self censor for anyone, and I’m not sorry for my thoughts nor am I being  mean-spirited but this is my blog and I’ll say what I like.*

For right now, I need to have an outlet to the world that allows me to share information, raise awareness, sound the alarms, and release the tension of knowing.

For now that’s what is hijacking my brain pan. I must DO what I can DO. If only to appease my own inner moral code. I am only a single person, in the vastness…it’s hard not to be reminded daily that I am so small in scale and scope. My rage is unable to be directed and it spawns feelings of hopelessness.

I can’t live that way. I just can’t. I have to DO. I have to. Something, damn Anything is better than nothing. I am programmed for love. Fierce love. Warrior class love. Compassionate and unyielding love. How can I manage my mission in this life, (to heal myself and as many others as I can reach, to love one soul at a time back to what we can really be as human beings, a real brotherhood of man) as just me, myself and I? I speak I write. I reasearch, not in a narrow to support my own fears/dogma, but in an inclusive, scare the shit out of you kind of way. The more I know, the more I see, the more the concern for all of us living beings grows.

This morning I woke to a gentle rain falling. Here in Kentucky it’s been hotter than the hinges of hell, with high humidity that makes you sweat in the shower.  So it should have been a soothing thing to wake to. Instead I instantly started thinking about re-covering my organic garden. We have built raised beds and put hoops over them all to extend our seasons here.  It would also serve at this time to re-cover the garden to protect it from whatever is in the rain, that is a result of a system that is currently coming in from the gulf. Isn’t that a sad and scary truth? I makes me feel so fucking angry I could spit nails right now. So to expend the energy in my body, while I wait for the rain to stop so I can go protect the food my family is depending on right now (we are in high harvest and putting away for winter mode) and the future months to come, I am posting this blog with the following links, read, watch and learn about the real world we live in. It’s so important to know, because we have voting season coming up, and we need a new government from the top down. That is he power of the people. Inform yourself, find brand new non party representatives and kick them all the fuck out. Scrap it. Start over. It’s always the same old choice between to evils, and we can change that with courage. We need to shift the paradigm, change isn’t a creeping of kitty cat paws thing. It’s the inferno. It’s revolution.

Here you go. Please add to the knowledge base if you can. I don’t care what “side” you are coming from. I only have one side, the love of all living beings side, so bring what you got. I’ll give all sides of this issue a place, it’s up to you all to make up your own minds. I am only one person and I am mighty. How you doing?

 Exposing the Truth on Gulf Oil Spill
This video is narrated by George Carlin. He says it all!
read this and watch the video on the same page.
Go here

Here is a little proof of prior knowledge or the “let it happen” attitude of Goldman Sachs and a BP executive.
BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil spill
Read this
Goldman Sachs sold 44% of its BP Stock, Three weeks before the Oil Rig disaster.
Read this
You may end up at this last link via the daily paul.
This is interesting

“THE “MYSTERIES” OF THE EXACTING DYNAMICS of Mother Nature have been observed and charted by modern and ancient scientists. Some of it is explainable – Mother Nature often allows murderers (killers by any name) to see their families, spouses, children, cousin, in-laws and servants wither and die before they die, becoming frail, sick, impotent, neurotic, social outcasts, unable to communicate or intercourse socially and economically. These dynamics apply also to “lesser” crimes (sins) than murder, and even when the murderer is dead. She appears to have established a fixed limit to the amount of wealth one may gather as well as the degree and number of anti-social and un-economic, unconscionable, freedoms that one may exercise before these dynamics of extinction are imposed. Did no one ever tell you that the “wages of sin” are death, that we “reap” what we “sow,” and that the rich cannot enter the “kingdom of heaven?” You didn’t believe them? Too bad. Neither ignorance nor innocence are mitigations of the vulnerability in these natural occurrences. You cannot achieve the “Promised Land” with slaughter or inequity but can achieve Hell, suffering and death in a society that will destroy itself. Mother Nature neither loves you, nor hates you. You are simply a flower in her garden, or a weed. She either lets you grow or She plucks you out so that you do not choke to death her work of millions of years, her “garden,” her balance of the inert and the living who harmonize with life. Do not let our pagan rhetoric of refrain you disconcert. It has its purpose.”

~From the pages of: http://john-richardson-meadows.angelfire.com/FINAL_SOLUTION_MANUSCRIPT.doc

So, now that I have some space in my brain, now that I have taken (some of) the things inside my  head and made them tangible I feel a little better. Now I can go make art again.

Love to all, Pray for peace,

Heather

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P.S. I have been out to the garden and can not see any visable traces of anything but plain old rain water. This makes me feel better, for now.

This is a link to information about GMO’s and the De-population issues involing Monasto: http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/de-population-conspiracy-involving-monsanto

New Art- Age of Man

‘Age of Man’

16″ x 20″

oils on flat canvas panel, will need mounting or framing to hang.

Available for purchase on my web site in the 2010 gallery.

Here is the song that made this painful and angry work, Okay again:

One love, one heart
Let’s get together and feel all right
Hear the children crying (One love)
Hear the children crying (One heart)
Sayin’, “Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right.”
Sayin’, “Let’s get together and feel all right.”
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One love)
There is one question I’d really love to ask (One heart)
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own?
Believe me

One love, one heart
Let’s get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (One love)
So shall it be in the end (One heart)
Alright, “Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right.”
“Let’s get together and feel all right.”
One more thing

Let’s get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (One love)
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One song)
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
There ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation

Sayin’, “One love, one heart
Let’s get together and feel all right.”
I’m pleading to mankind (One love)
Oh, Lord (One heart) Whoa.

“Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right.”
Let’s get together and feel all right.
(Repeat)

~Bob Marley

This oil painting was created for the release of the passionate anger I have been feeling about the Oil Spill crisis. Using bold colors, and text from the Bob Marley song, “One Love”, I painted this work at least three times before accepting that sometimes anger does not make pretty art.  With a modern, pop art kind of feeling, this artwork made me work though my anger and get down to the brass tacks.

I feel like we are a nation of complainers. I don’t think we are really apathetic about our state of reality, I do think we sometimes mistake pointing out what is wrong for doing something about it.

I was in Mississippi just a few months after Katrina. I remember feeling so hopeless and scared for all the people in the path of the flooding. I remember feeling amazed at the lack of accountability and help that came in response to the living crisis. I felt small, I felt helpless. Then I got mad. Then I painted four paintings about those feelings. I painted out being a pissed of Southern woman, (that’s a lot of work my friends). I sold those works while I was in Mississippi and I then found 2 real families that were in trouble and fleeing from the disaster. I gave them the money, anonymously. I did what I could do, not for all of them but those that I could reach.

What can I give? What can I do for the people and the earth? Not much, I am only one person. I think that is part of the problem. We can Facebook  and tweet about the horror of all this. We can social network, we can blog. We can donate millions of dollars to huge charities. We can get off our butts and go help clean up. We can rally together and fight the government for change and safety. We can do many things, as one. One Heart. One Love. Let’s get together and feel alright.

I will find a family or two, like I have always done, and I will donate 100% of all profits made from the sale of this work and/or any others works I may do in this vein. I will donate all profits to those families, and know that one person can do some little good in this world. Will you join me? Will you create something and share it with the world?  Will you join with me as one people of earth, and do something for someone else? Will you act with one heart? Can you act with One Love?

I am but one person, and I am mighty.

Pray for peace,

Heather

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New Art- At the edge of the World

 

 

“At the edge of the World’

16″ x 20″

Oils on flat canvas panel

Will need framing or mounting for hanging

Available for purchase on my web site in the 2010 gallery.

Here is the quote that inspired the work:

“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.”
-Albert Schweitzer

I was a child, growing into a young woman on the Gulf of Mexico in southern Florida. I spent my young adult years on the coast of Oregon, the mighty Pacific was my friend, teacher, healer and my first taste of real freedom.

I live in Kentucky right now, and for the first time in my life, I can not go to the edge of the world. It’s so weird being land locked in this way, and I’ve been dreaming of ocean breezes, clean water, wind, birds and salt tinged air.

In these pictures the top two are clear and the skin tones are right, the background  is more right in the bottom picture. ARGH! Taking pictures is not my forte.

I saw this beautiful picture of a full figure model on the beach in a magazine a long time ago, she was so achingly beautiful, so I tore the page out of some forgotten magazine and kept it for years for inspiration. I used that picture as a loose model for this woman, for this projection of myself walking free, into the salty wind at the edge of the world. Where is your internal edge of the world? What do you see when you go there?

Thanks for being here today, I sure appreciate you all.

Pray for peace,

Heather

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New Art- The Goddess – Happy Friday, this is your art calling

‘The Goddess’

16″ x 20″

oils on flat canvas panel, will need framing for hanging

Available for purchase on my web site in the 2010 gallery.

Here the words that helped shape the work:

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
Dan Brown

AND

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.
Carol P. Christ

The Goddess is an exploration for a larger series or body of work that is working its way to the front of my mind. I have been in love with ancient peoples, symbology and birds/animals for several months now. I have a new awakening happening, it’s a revolution I tell you.  This work was a  practice for what I see coming up, and I really love the way it came together. I want to paint sexy, sensuous goddesses with authority and an authentic rawness. I am on my way to discovering what is being born, in my spirit and awareness. I hope you all enjoy the ride too.

Thanks for being here today and let me hear from you, I am a needy, attention starved artist after all. LOL

Pray for peace,

Heather

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New Art- The Blue Pair #2

‘The Blue Pair #2′

24″ x 18″

Oils on gallery wrapped canvas

Needs no frame, painted sides, ready to hang

Available for purchase on my web site in the 2010 gallery.

Here is the inspiration for this work:

“Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.”
Mel Brooks

The Blue Pair was so much fun, I love these silly blue footed birds so very much. They crack me up, I smiled the entire time I painted this pair. These birds are the Blue-footed Booby, click on the hyper link to learn more about them.

I have some other updates coming soon, the art is flowing like water ovah here…so stay tuned.

Thanks for being here today,

Heather

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New Art- Heron at Sunset

“Heron at Sunset”

20″ x 16″

Oils on flat canvas panel

Available for purchase at my web site in the 2010 gallery.

Just finished this new painting this morning and wanted to share. I could not get a really good picture because of the rainy, icky weather, so this is the best picture for now. I’ll try for better ones later today. I have another painting already on the easel and almost done so I want to get back to work! LOL

 This painting reminded me of being a girl in Florida and watching the birds. I love the way the sunset color is staining the water and the neck of this magnificent bird. The shiny spots in the picture are just wet paint…it’ll all be seamless when it’s dry, which might take a few days with all this rain. It’s a bright painting, but not overly bright. I enjoyed the heck out of painting it.

Hope you like it too, let me hear from you!

Have a great weekend,

Heather

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New Art- Pretty in Pink

‘Pretty in Pink’

20″ x 16″

Oils on flat canvas panel

Available for purchase on my web site in the 2010 gallery.

Pretty in pink started out as an ACEO named ‘Preen’. I sold that ACEO but I really liked the painting, so I did it bigger this time and in oils. Ok, I really like it! I had so much fun with this, and I am having so much fun with painting all the birds, I can’t get over it….who would of thought? Well, I am the BAD! Kitty so maybe it’s not that weird afterall. I hope the fun and excitement I had creating this work shows through for you all.

Let me hear from you, you know I love attention, so gimme some love.

Meow! Thanks for being here, have a great day!

Heather

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New Art- Owl #1

‘Owl #1′

16″ x 20″

Oils on flat canvas panel

Available for purchase on my web site in the 2010 gallery.

I just finished this painting this morning. I was dreaming about owls the other night, and I woke up needing to paint one for myself. I am still pushing through the abstract works, and I think this painting is a nice mix of loose and tight painting.  I love his eyes, I hope you all can see the depth of color in them. I am enjoying learning what he had to teach (I just feel this owl is a he).

Well, that’s all from me for right now, let me know what you think as I love to hear from you all.

Have a great day and thanks so much for being here today.

Heather

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