When I was in India in 2022, I saw a small captivating photo of my spiritual teacher’s teacher. His eyes…
Portrait of Swami Mahatabkak – painting in process
I started a new portrait painting. After finishing my latest digital painting I was longing for some “real” paint and…
Destroyer of the wheel of cognition (12 Kalis #8)
Ending the limited I-consciousness. The eighth Kali finally puts an end to the limited I-consciousness (containing 5 organs of knowledge…
Destroyer of Doubts (12 Kalis #7)
Furiously frowning in Her dance of destruction. By the flame of Her unlimited power, she devours in one gulp the…
Black Kali – feminine power – mother earth – nature
When I was starting to explore the 12 Kalis creatively, sketching and intuitively painting, and just letting happen whatever wanted…
The Kiss of Death – Destroyer of Death (12 Kalis #6)
The conscious energy, hungry for pure subjectivity ‘kills death’. Here in the cognitive cycle it is the death of the…
Containing in Herself everything (12 Kalis #5)
Where the senses awaken and all potential lies. A brain ready to receive its signals. Sending its tangles of nerve…
Where the energy (of Kali) attracts everything into herself! (12 Kalis #4)
The void stage. This stage of withdrawal happens in the objective cycle after creation (#1 Sṛiṣṭikālī,) maintaining (2 Rakta-kālī,) and…
A tiny seed from the bottom of my heart
नवरेह मुबारक “Navareh Mubarak”, as they say in Kashmir, congratulations for the New Year that just started according to the…
Resting peacefully in the destruction of objectivity (12 Kalis #3)
This is the continuation of a series on the 12 Kalis, read more about the concept behind the series… The…
Drinking from the goblet of the senses (12 Kalis #2)
This is the second Kali in a series on the 12 Kalis, read more about the concept behind the series……
Yoni and Voice – Expressing the Feminine Energy
This is the continuation from a series of paintings that started off digitally (A Sacred Sanctum for the Wounded Feminine…
Gurunatha (Abhinavagupta and the Lineage of Kashmir Shaiva Masters)
I updated the painting of Abhinavagupta by adding a dignifying shawl to his torso instead of him being bare-chested. So…
Painting of a Young Girl
I have been working on this portrait for my friends of their four year old daughter for quite a while,…
Connections
As I was looking for an inspiring yet not too challenging project for teaching a student with no experience in painting,…
“Cycle of life” earth mother/girl/embryo
This painting is about the cycle of life, earth, mother, feminine energy, shakti and how we are nourished and nurtured…
Cycle of life, earth, mother, feminine energy – a painting in process
My latest painting is about the cycle of life, earth, mother, feminine energy, shakti. I am still unsure about the…
“Fragments”, small paintings
“Fragments” I was contemplating the experience of most people living in this world of feeling separated, fragments of the whole.…
Commissioned portrait painting and how it all started
Just finished a commissioned portrait painting. A friend of mine and devotee of Swami Lakshmanjoo asked me to paint his…
Sunset triplet painting
I just finished a huge painting that I made for my friends living room. They have been so kind to…
Fledgling
Encaustic (hot wax and pigment) on Masonite board, framed H 20 x W 16 inch (51 x 40.5cm), framed, ready…
When the heart overflows…
“The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience…
a life of its own… (unfinished works in process)
I am always amazed by how ideas emerge as I continue working on a painting. The artwork takes on a…
“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge . . .”
It’s been a pretty chaotic and busy in my life lately, and I don’t know about you but it seems…
Heart-strings
Heart-strings – The pain has helped me heal. It’s all connected, the pain, the sacredness, the fruitful opening of it…
Full-body portrait of Kashmir Shaivite master Swami Lakshmanjoo
This is a large, full-body portrait of Swami Lakshmanjoo and it’s his 100th centenary Birthday coming up on the 9th…
Portrait of Swami Lakshmanjoo Standing (Grace)
Acrylic painting on wood board box,Size: H 48 x W 24 inch (121.92 x 60.96 cm). Painting from a photo…