Only looking
acrylic on canvas,18 x 24 inch (46 x 61 cm) Check the availability of original paintings in my store. Prints are available for most paintings in various sizes. Don’t hesitate to contact me for questions and inquiries.
Dark night of the soul…
Still reading St John of the Cross and his “dark night of the soul”… Into the darkness of the nightWith heartache kindled with love,O blessed chance!I went out unobserved,My house being wrapped in sleep. In the darkness, and yet safe,By secret ladder and in disguise,O blessed chance!In darkness, and in secret, I crept out,My house […]
Painting in progress…
Very often it happens that the final painting (above top) looks nothing like it started (below)…. Check the availability of original paintings in my store. Prints are available for most paintings in various sizes. Don’t hesitate to contact me for questions and inquiries.
I am you
HOW COULD A LOVER FALL? What could have caused your grip to weaken that allowed creation to be? How could a lover fall to his death from the arms of infinite strength? How active are you in the mind sustaining such a great wall that the sun can cast a frightening shadow the world believes. […]
Why this universe does not take place according to my choice . . .
Wondering about why Jesus and St. John were suffering so much, and if they had a choice why they choose to suffer, until came across this… Why this universe does not take place according to my choice . . .“You desire for something, it does not happen . . . are you Shiva?I don’t like […]
Divine Mercy
acrylic on canvas,18 x 18 inch (46 x 46 cm) Check the availability of original paintings in my store. Prints are available for most paintings in various sizes. Don’t hesitate to contact me for questions and inquiries.
What moves all things is God
Watched “The Passion of Christ” for the second time around and still couldn’t stand it, had to walk out a couple of times crying. Just too gory in the details, but it sure gives you a feeling of how it must have been… And just like a parallel the other day I was reading about […]
making meaning versa divine play… or why we do what we do…
My friend Sarah reminded me of the book, “the van gogh blues”, by Eric Maisel, which I was reading a while ago, and which impressed me at that time. I think one of his approaches to the depression and creative downtimes that every artist experiences from time to time was that as an artist we […]
works in progress…
I hate showing unfinished work. But then again it might be a very good treatment for my ego to show those ugly beginnings… 😉 This one has a story that will have to be told when it is finished… Check the availability of original paintings in my store. Prints are available for most paintings in […]
Appeal to the Muse…
Seems like my inspiration and output in painting has been lessened lately. And I remember Elisabeth Gilberts (in her TED talk) suggesting that we shouldn’t beat ourselves up and put that much demand on our little Self. She reminds us of the Muse that used to visit artists in the old ages. Realized I haven’t […]
June gloom…
June gloom weather… makes me wanna just crawl into my ‘cave’ and meditate… trying to escape uncertainty… being the only constant unchanging feature in life… it dawns on me that the only way out aint pretty or any less painful than where I am right now 😉 It’s probably going to be more like Mirabai […]
Heart-strings
Heart-strings – The pain has helped me heal. It’s all connected, the pain, the sacredness, the fruitful opening of it all, like a pomegranate. Then moving on… with a song in the background. Check the availability of original paintings in my store. Prints are available for most paintings in various sizes. Don’t hesitate to contact […]
“I work, therefore I work.”
Gelassenheit means “releasement” or “letting go.” The term is an old one in German intellectual history, from the theologizing of Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) to the religious thought of Reform Anabaptists and early modern mystics, to its 20th-century revival in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. “Make a start with yourself, and abandon yourself. Truly, if you […]
…letting nothing stand in our way.
Still reveling in Meister Eckhart’s words: “To be right, a person must do one of two things; either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since however, man cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we […]
Misunderstanding
“When there is misunderstanding; when misunderstanding is manifested all over the world, misunderstanding everywhere.The remedy is in my hands, that brute has nothing to do with that. The remedy is in His [Gods] hands, he is watching that.This misunderstanding, He creates that misunderstanding, He manifests that misunderstanding. Then by his own free choice, at the […]
In your hand
Something was still missing 😉 The sprout that sprouts from the hand into one day a giant tree. acrylic on canvas, 18 x 18 inch (46 x 46 cm) Check the availability of original paintings in my store. Prints are available for most paintings in various sizes. Don’t hesitate to contact me for questions and […]
Untitled 13
acrylic on canvas,18 x 18 inch (46 x 46 cm) Check the availability of original paintings in my store. Prints are available for most paintings in various sizes. Don’t hesitate to contact me for questions and inquiries.
Timely reading: Meister Eckhart, the importance of silence
Timely reading: Meister Eckhart in German, which I should have read a long time ago. Brilliantly put in words, clear, and filled of the highest monistic thought (like Kashmir Shaivism), and with a wonderful touch of down to earth-ness. And the first thing in one of the books (Meister Eckhart Mystische Schriften and with original […]
photos to prints and postcards…
My friend Doni took some professional photos of the latest paintings, and I have been able to upload them to redbubble, an art website that offers prints on demands in all sizes, postcards etc. Have a look… http://www.redbubble.com/people/claudiadose and let me know what you think. Check the availability of original paintings in my store. Prints […]
And would you be a lizard then?
I met you, a lizard, in the loYou stared at me the same way tooMoments, minutes, time stood still. I blew a kiss and our souls merged in aweYour eyes blinking as if you understood it allSmall feet, frozen, melting my big heart. When finally you lifted up your head and leftI wondered when I […]
There is life that we do not know of…
How then can we argue? having lunch in a field one day, I troubled an ant with a question. I asked of him humbly. “Have you ever been to Paris?” and he replied, “No but I wouldn’t mind going.” and then he asked me if I had ever been to a famous ant city. And […]
Birthday Celebration, exhibit and music…
We have been busy preparing for the Birthday Celebration of our spiritual teacher, and a retreat following it. It’s been different this year without our chief cook, organizer and my “partner in crime,” but we managed surprising well and everyone had a chance to help so much more this time. Except we forgot to let […]
where your bare foot walks…
The feet of a master have been associated with his connection to the ground and as such there is a certain gratitude and reverence for them to connect us with the higher realms here on this earth. In this painting I tried to capture this connection of the sacred among with the earth, water and […]
website updates
Been updating the website with new paintings painted thus far, plus finalized titles that appeared to fit and add to the understanding, or so I hope 😉 Have a look here. Check the availability of original paintings in my store. Prints are available for most paintings in various sizes. Don’t hesitate to contact me for […]
being a “genius” versa having a “genius”…
Elizabeth Gilbert (author of the book, “Eat, Pray, Love“) muses about: “A different way to think about creative genius.” In her very funny, personal and moving talk she has some really important points that might keep us artists and “geniuses” (and everyone actually) sane, and even save some lives… “Allowing somebody … to believe that […]
A muse (ed)…
I have a secret to tell…. I was kissed by a muse 😉Yes, I know the muses are “goddesses or spirits who inspire the creation of literature and the arts” and they are supposed to be female. Mine was a man with a flute, who visited me via the internet. And without him the latest […]
“Your art has never spoken for itself….” Arg!
Been following Alyson B. Stanfield’s very informative blog and advice on marketing for artists on her website, something that I had been neglecting up to now. So finally got her new book “I’d rather be in the studio” and now there are no excuses for not doing it. One of her first advices is to […]
