This painting was a result of seeing an article about a teen mother trying to smother her baby. It totally stunned me and I wasn’t quite able to comprehend what motivated her. So I painted. Just the other day I was watching a video on TED by Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth — visualized, what a miracle […]
After finishing the recent painting “Listen with the ear of your heart “been thinking what “listen” really means. And even though meditating seems very nice and peaceful, still I am often wondering if I am doing what God wants me to do or how much of is ego based and selfish. It’s been a whirlwind […]
“Listen with the ear of your heart” ~ St. Benedict click on photos to view details “Listen” acrylic and collage on canvas, unframed H12 x W12 x depth 2 inch (30,5 x 30,5 x 5cm) To explain what the direction in the left corner (South West) has to do with hearing or listening I will quote […]
Inspired by those easy Instagram Filters for Photoshop (thanks to Daniel Box) started playing with a photo (old and new scars) in Photoshop . . . . just for fun 🙂 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 really like Rabia and her poetry… Ironic, but one of the most intimate acts of our body is death. So beautiful appeared my death – knowing Who then i would kiss, i died a thousand times before i died. “Die before you die,” said the Prophet Muhammad. Have wings that feared ever touched the […]
…tulips and other things sprouting 🙂 A spontaneous mood painting. I like it that way at the moment. acrylic and collage on canvas 12 x 12 inch (30,5 x 30,5cm) 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 […]
Sometimes when we don’t quite understand what the world is trying to tell us, or we are not quite sure where a painting is taking us, it helps to remember that… “Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion, entirely in itself, in the […]
Yesterday, at dawn, passing by, the Beloved said to me, “Youare distraught and unaware; how long will this go on? My cheek is the envy of the rose; and have you filled your eyewith heart’s blood in quest of the thorn?” I said, “Before your stature the cypress is but a sapling!” I said,“Before your […]
Like many of my paintings this painting developed intuitively, which means rather than having a preconceived idea I let the painting evolve intuitively and it takes on a live of its own. Sometimes during the painting process but often much later when it is finished i can see its meaning for me personal, as if […]
Suffering only hurts because you fear it. Suffering only hurts because you complain about it. It pursues you because you flee from it. You must not flee, you must not complain,you must not fear. You must love.You know all this yourself, you know quite well deep within you, that there is a single magic, a […]
It all started with a piece of Styrofoam sticking out of a recycling bin (together with a wooden crate, which I used to paint another painting, “Offereing“), and then I kept looking at the styrofoam piece with a pretty intriguing cut-out, like it once had an instrument encased in it, perhaps a saxophone… and went […]
Been watching some moving documentaries lately that I wanted to share. They are not directly related to my art but somehow will influence it and perhaps touch you as well. Starting with “Wasteland” Synopsis Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn […]
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, Go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let […]
acrylic on sculpted styrofoam (its hard to see in the photo but it’s actually a soft scoop out where the face is and another on the right where the drop is, originally the styrofoam looked like it contained a saxophone), unframed, 12 x 12 inch (30.05 x 30.05 cm) Original sold! contact me if you would […]
This is interesting and has me wonder… Dave Eggers and Jonah Lehrer – Tortured Artists and ‘Grit’ “People who are a little bit sad . . . they become a lot more centered and focused and more likely to persist. So they stick with that task for longer.” Reminds me of the classic examples of […]
Been working on some changes on the illustrations for a children book I had created earlier in the year, and finally got inspired for the title page… 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.
Another beautiful poem by Hafiz that brought tears to my eyes for reasons that cannot be expressed any other way . . . What happens when your soul begins to awaken your eyes and your heart and the cells of your body to the great Journey of Love? First there is wonderful laughter and probably […]
…an unfinished painting and some leaves that started dancing…. 🙂 My first animation. Hope you enjoy! 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.
Just exactly what is this longing that pulls us thru life: love, devotion, bhakti, I keep wondering, as I find (and lose) my self again and again, stumbling, and face down in the mud. And in those moments sometimes poems make some sense of the “non-sense” 🙂 TIRED OF SPEAKING SWEETLY Love wants to […]
Just finished a new painting, for a very dear friend. And noticed again how strange that it is much more difficult to paint the (half) portrait of someone I see every day versa someone I have seen only once or twice. Perhaps I should pay more attention 🙂 “Thought we travel the world over […]
You are cordially invited to the Culver City Art Group 16TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY ART SHOW Saturday November 12th, 2011, 1:00pm until 7:00pm A body of original artwork by our members • oil painting • acrylics • watercolors • photography • ceramics • digital works • collage • drawing • colored pencil and other artistic media […]
Birdwings Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirrorup to where you’re bravely working. Expecting the worst, you look, you look, and instead,here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see. Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.If it were always a fist or always stretched open,you would be paralyzed. Your deepest […]
For a long time I have been trying to express in my paintings the idea of what is Love to God, Bhakti, or Devotion. Not all of my paintings are about that but it is a constant underlying search. The other day I was a bit down and asking a friend about her idea of […]
The Prophet has saidthat a true seeker must be completely empty like a luteto make the sweet music of “Lord, Lord.” When the emptiness starts to get filled with something,the One who plays the lute puts it downand picks up another. There is nothing more subtle and delightfulthan to make that music. […]
“Love plays and is the music being played. Let that musician finish this poem.” ~Rumi “The Flute Player” acrylic, collage, permanent marker on paper 27.25 x 21 inch (69 x 53,5 cm) . Check the availability of original paintings in my store. Prints are available for most paintings in various sizes. Don’t […]
This is how most my paintings start…. …and it takes a while till I find where the painting wants to go… It is never boring that way. Though often this method leads me to do things backwards, like starting with the paper and then realizing that the collages I stick to it requires for it […]
Remember some time ago I wrote a blog post about my struggles to just relax guilt free and do nothing (“The one who is not busy” is not me… yet). I am still trying. Last monday I had this idea that doing nothing doesn’t always mean doing no-thing… I was cleaning out the closet finally, something I meant […]
