“This side and that side” continued…
Wow, has it already been five weeks since I last wrote in this blog? So much happened, not so much…
What I have been up to lately…
Been working on the little “manneken” that is to go into the new paintingmarked the space to see what it…
when eyes can hear and ears can see…
You live in meas a constant pulseevery fiber ofmy beingdancingto yourdrum beat. Your heavy breathtouches my ear,and every poreof my…
There are different wells within your heart…
There are different wellswithin your heart.Some fill with each good rain,Others are fartoo deep for that. In one wellYou have…
this side and that side…
It’s been a while… and the current painting is sure taking it’s time… growing and evolving… Originally they were two……
talking with God…
Nasrudin stories inspire me with their wonderful simplicity and yet profound wisdom, which often makes fun of our egos. Nesrudin…
“I died as a mineral and became a plant…” Square and Round
I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as…
Tis the time for new prices… and a great opportunity
Been working on a new price-list for my paintings that is more consistent, based on square inch, as suggested by…
Looking Away (Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder)
…or as Henry David Thoreau says, “The question is not what you look at, but what you see”. Note to…
waking…
Those of you who have been following my blog might have noticed that I haven’t been posting much lately… been…
Wherever your mind becomes peaceful…
Found this very interesting especially in the light of recent upheavals in the world and around us. There is always…
the rebels and the changes… a short story without ending
Been working on this “puzzle” of a painting for a while now… it is going in a circle and has…
Butterflies (a metamorphosis)
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” (Richard Bach) “Everything you see has…
See my paintings in Long Beach…
Join me this Saturday, May 22nd, 7:00pm for the opening reception of LarkGalleryOnline Show “Go Green”, which is part of…
metamorphosis and other happenings…
Seems like ages since I have been painting. We were hosting our annual study retreat and Birthday Celebrations and there…
thoughts and words….
Since my camera is not working and I couldn’t post pictures , I was thinking maybe a good opportunity to…
This is going to be a long winded story…. slow art
At the “Slow Art” event we spend a long time looking at just one painting, instead of rushing past hundreds…
the fabric of life… (death)
new painting, with details… Is it the fading tulips on the table (love it) or the general mood of retreating…
Bleeding… small works for sale
I really like the way the leaf blends with the thorn and the cross, perhaps a reminder to the kind…
There Could Be Holy Fallout
I love this! Of course by Hafiz, so funny and yet so true… We are often in battle.So often defending…
in the eye of the snake… small painting
“In the eye of the snake” acrylic on masonite panel H 4 x W 4 inch (10 x 10 cm)
In the studio… small and big works in progress
Sweating the small stuff… and getting paintings done one night at a time 🙂 “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine…
Website update…
Been working on my website and added 5 recent paintings to it. The link on the pictures below should send…
losing it…
Got a huge shock last night. While working on my website I had been consolidating backups from old to new…
letting go…
letting it fly like a kite in the sky… “Letting go” acrylic on canvas, 16 x 12 inches (40.5 x…
Too much stuff… or abundance for the sake of creativity?
Seems to come with the spring, this urge to clean up for a new beginning.Time to pull up the weeds…
Birthing (Out of Darkness, Light is born)
Sometimes when I don’t quite understand what the world is trying to tell me, or I am not quite sure…
Getting out and about…
Went on an outing with the Culver City Artist Group to Bergamot station. Lots of Galleries and lots of other…
When there is unconditional surrender…
This came to me after painting my latest painting (below) while contemplating the meaning of surrender, and I thought it…
‘Surrender and alertness’ painting and other acts of faith
It never ceases to amaze me when a painting is finally finished… and yet I never seem absolutely sure, or…
in the eye of the beholder . . . painting in process
This sure needs some more work . . .
Our soul is so vast . . .
HIS LIPS UPON THE VEIL He has never left you. It is just that your soul is so vast that…
How the deer quietly sneaked into the painting . . .
. . . honestly escaped me, but it started all very randomly, a couple of scribbles of sanskrit that got…
One more thing to do . . . do I really need a fanpage?
After much prodding and resisting I finally sucumbed to making a fanpage. What convinced me in the end was reading…
Knowledge (mudra)
In this painting, a hand mudra emerges intuitively which seems rooted in the ground but reaches towards the moon. In…
the infinite ran to the edge of space . . .
NO ONE WILL BEGRUDGE ME I talk about it sometimes with Him, all the suffering in the world. “Dear God,”…
painting in process . . .
this time it looks as if a mudra is emerging from the abstract beginnings . . . and so it…
He is filled with tears, everywhere . . . Love
Here is the promised snippet, that I talked about in my last post, about what love is by Swami Lakshmanjoo…
Love it when art inspires art . . .
By Liz Bennefield Looking at Claudia’s painting, I recall a poem that I wrote a very long time ago. “Memories”…
“Jewel of Remembrance”
This painting reminds me of a passage I found in the Bhagavad Gita where Swamiji Lakshmanjoo was explaining what love/devotion…
Could you embrace that?
After watching Avatar, I had a discussion on facebook about my disappointment with its solution to the problems of survival…
the long and winding path of painting… continued
This is what I like about painting without pre-conceived ideas, and without judging and reasoning (at least not while painting),…
the long and winding path of a painting
Haven’t finished this one, but since it has been taken so long I have had more time to wonder about…
inspired by nature…
click to see bigger… photos copyright Claudia Dose
Back at the canvas…
Back at the canvas after its been sitting there for a while, looking at it with ‘fresh eyes’. There is…
lazy days….
Been luxuriating in laziness over the holidays, ahhhh!Haven’t been that lazy for a long time, it felt needed and long…
way behind…
…with everything it seems, especially writing in my blog, paintings seem to multiply without getting finished, to do’s are piling…
inspired by a hug… painting in process
Was watching this documentary “doing time doing vipasana“, about how 10 days of silent meditation made a huge difference in…
Untitled 22 in process
Lately it seems I have started more paintings than finished, this is one that I had put aside a while…
When He appears our heart is gone…
“Love and Death both are effecting our heart… One takes the heart, the other the beat.” Anonymous (Shivastotravali, verse 15)“Those…
worms and bugs and all…
Garden looks more like a jungle these days, time to do some serious pruning, it’s autumn, the chrysanthemums are almost…
Grateful!
The Guest House This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some…
The power of music…
Wonderful concert last night at the Zipper Hall with the Camerata Pacifica. Reminds me again of the power of music.…
CCAG art show 2009
I felt honored to be hanging my paintings with to so many talented artist from the CCAG at the art…
Please call me by my true names…
My last painting got me thinking and wondering about what that angel is doing, looking a bit burned. And who…
Burned Angel
This is one of the paintings that basically just appeared in front of my eyes as I kept painting. I…
Culver City Art Group exhibit
I will be participating in the annual exhibit of the Culver City Art Group with some of my paintings. There…
Prayer
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It…
painting in process… and musing about certainty…
It seems there is a lot of uncertainty in the air lately, in the world and in everybody’s life. Perhaps…
There is nothing in your life that will not change…
CERTAINTY Certainty undermines one’s power, and turns happiness into a long shot. Certainty confines. Dears, there is nothing in your…
Silence speaks (listening to the inner voice)
This painting comes with a lot of history. The mat surrounding the painting is from a Jacquard fabric that I…
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will grow…
“A Necessary Autumn Inside Each” You and I have spoken all these words, but as for the waywe have to…
falling… rising
Autumn The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. Each…
art lab and some insights in my own little laboratory of painting out of the box
A friend took me down to Santa Monica to meet Melanie, the owner of the PaintLab. What a fabulous idea.…
music not just for the ears…
Haven’t been to a concert for a while, so this was a real treat: the old fashioned Händel gala at…
forgetting what doesn’t pass away…
Why are you so blind to what the soul needs?Weep for yourself as when a cloud weeps,and then the branch…
circling… centering
Feels as if the world has been spinning a bit faster the last few days or even weeks, at least…
First art show…
Well the very first one actually happened at our house in May, so this was the first public one. I…
What is grace?
St. John of the Cross says it so clearly… “What is grace?” I asked God. And he said, “All that…
snippets of my thoughts and other events…
Been busy preparing for the event (“a night of devotion”), working on website, updating statement. I had taken Alyson Stanfield’s…
Is that my Fate?
Here is another poem by St. John on the cross that really touched me… Do they prove anything to you,…
Emerging Goddess
It took a while but finally…
“A Night of Devotion”
I will be participating in “A Night of Devotion” (kirtan, paintings, photography) at the Electric Lodge in Venice, CA. The…
winter “down under”
lazy afternoonwatching the birds on the feeder(“Wallie”, the magpie who used to come to the kitchen window has found himself…
Only looking
acrylic on canvas,18 x 24 inch (46 x 61 cm)
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…
Painting in progress…
Very often it happens that the final painting (above top) looks nothing like it started (below)….
I am you
HOW COULD A LOVER FALL? What could have caused your grip to weaken that allowed creation to be? How could…
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…
Divine Mercy
acrylic on canvas,18 x 18 inch (46 x 46 cm)
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…
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…
works in progress…
I hate showing unfinished work. But then again it might be a very good treatment for my ego to show…
Appeal to the Muse…
Seems like my inspiration and output in painting has been lessened lately. And I remember Elisabeth Gilberts (in her TED…
June gloom…
June gloom weather… makes me wanna just crawl into my ‘cave’ and meditate… trying to escape uncertainty… being the only…
Heart-strings
Heart-strings – The pain has helped me heal. It’s all connected, the pain, the sacredness, the fruitful opening of it…
“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…
…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…
Misunderstanding
“When there is misunderstanding; when misunderstanding is manifested all over the world, misunderstanding everywhere.The remedy is in my hands, that…
In your hand
This is an intuitive painting that emerged from the canvas before my eyes. ‘In Your Hand,’ is where the delicate…
Untitled 13
acrylic on canvas,18 x 18 inch (46 x 46 cm)
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
website updates
Been updating the website with new paintings painted thus far, plus finalized titles that appeared to fit and add to…