The Color Alchemist

Painting with My Heart

Art heals us. Expression of the heart opens creative flow of the heart's innate intelligence.

I use a trowel-size palette knife to transform colorful emotions into life-size paintings. I feel subtle twinges and movement in my body, as I weave light and shadow with earth and sky colors to bring harmony to every cell.

The heart's innate intelligence registers throughout the body through feelings. Emotions are raw intelligence, which translated through art, deliver wavelengths of light to every cell in the body. 

Painting feels like automatic writing, as if I'm receiving dictation. First releasing emotion with color, then I feel the urge to draw the line. You see this materialze in my paintings, as gritty willow charcoal drawings carved into thick impasto paint.  

It's here in the Interwoven Heartland Meadow where peace arrives with flourish. 

My healing heart journey

For fifty years, I followed the flow of emotions through landscape painting. From the Appalachian Mountains, through streams, and marsh lands to the pond beside my studio near the Chesapeake Bay, I painted myself into alignment with the watershed. Embodying the flow of water, I mapped the healing art terrain of our human-nature collaboration with my art. 

This is not something I set out to do fifty years ago. This is the gift of healing painting the watershed bestowed upon me. I share it here. It feels like something divine has channeled through my heart and hand for this precious moment in time.