I am excited to be participating in the Damascus Open Studios for the first time, this Friday, May 17 to…
Portrait of Swami Mahatabkak – saint of Kashmir
When I was in India in 2022, I saw a small captivating photo of my spiritual teacher’s teacher. His eyes…
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…
In the Eye of the Storm (Kali)
Mixed media painting (round fabric designed by me, watercolor, acrylic paint on watercolor paper 8 x 8 inches). An abstract…
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…
Painting for trees – Raising $2020 for planting 2020 trees in 2020.
I guess by now you have heard about the impact climate change has through the extreme example in Australia. 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……
A Doodle A Day > Arriving centered! – And a Gift for You
Back in LA, preparing for the birthday celebration for our spiritual teacher, followed by a study retreat. In an attempt…
Stretched Canvas prints available now
I ordered a couple of stretched canvas prints of my paintings and really love the way they turned out. Check…
Pearls of Wisdom (wisdom of the trees)
I believe that there is wisdom in trees. “When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity…
Heart Wisdom – the bridge between the heart and our brain
Did you know that the heart is actually what runs our brains? I read that… “Most of us have been…
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,…
A Sacred Sanctum for the Wounded Feminine Voice
That’s the title of one of the new course my dear Friend Natascha is offering on her website. Natascha is a…
“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…
“Fragments”, small paintings
“Fragments” I was contemplating the experience of most people living in this world of feeling separated, fragments of the whole.…
Fledgling
Encaustic (hot wax and pigment) on Masonite board, framed H 20 x W 16 inch (51 x 40.5cm), framed, ready…
Drowning – painting from a dream
It all started with a dream: Where I slowly fell into the depth of a pool, really deep, and looking…
When the heart overflows…
“The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience…
Reaching out
As we reach out to our creator, the creator reaches out to us… acrylic on canvas on Styrofoam H 15…
Separation
Acrylic, collage on canvas on styrofoam, Ready to hang, painted around the edges H15 x W15 x depth 1.5 inch…
Fragile
This painting was a result of seeing an article about a teen mother trying to smother her baby. It totally…
“Listen with the ear of your heart” ~ St. Benedict
acrylic and collage on canvas, unframed H12 x W12 x depth 2 inch (30,5 x 30,5 x 5cm) I intuitively…
Like thread through a needle…
Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. …
“Offering”
Detail views… “Offering” acrylic on found wood box, (painted around the edges and ready to hang, wired) 32.5 x 12.5…
“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…
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…
Butterflies (a metamorphosis)
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” (Richard Bach) “Everything you see has…
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…
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)
letting go…
letting it fly like a kite in the sky… “Letting go” acrylic on canvas, 16 x 12 inches (40.5 x…
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…
‘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…
Knowledge (mudra)
In this painting, a hand mudra emerges intuitively which seems rooted in the ground but reaches towards the moon. In…
“Jewel of Remembrance”
This painting reminds me of a passage I found in the Bhagavad Gita where Swamiji Lakshmanjoo was explaining what love/devotion…
Burned Angel
This is one of the paintings that basically just appeared in front of my eyes as I kept painting. I…
Prayer
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It…
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…
falling… rising
Autumn The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. Each…
Heart-strings
Heart-strings – The pain has helped me heal. It’s all connected, the pain, the sacredness, the fruitful opening of it…
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…
Feeling Protected
This was one of a series of paintings that emerged as I was exploring intuitive painting. One can feel comfort…
“The broken ones are My darlings – never give up!”
This is the promise, they say when you remember God, when you don’t give up hope, when you remain “broken”…
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…
36 Elements in the Philosophy of Kashmir Shaivisim
This collage represents the 36 elements according to the teachings of Kashmir Shaivism, which I have been studying for some…