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…
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…
Hugging my inner child – while painting a toddler
Do you believe that the Universe or Higher Self or God or whatever you want to call it puts us…
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……
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…
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…
“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…
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…
“There were two birds…”
“There were two birds in a forest, so close to each other. One, always used to sing and the other…
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…
Nurturing
A portrait of my friend’s toddler son. He loved to watch the flights overhead and the trash truck. to see…
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…
What’s on my chest…
…tulips and other things sprouting 🙂 A spontaneous mood painting. I like it that way at the moment. acrylic and collage…
Everything is gestation and then birthing.
Sometimes when we don’t quite understand what the world is trying to tell us, or we are not quite sure…
The Scream
acrylic on sculpted styrofoam (its hard to see in the photo but it’s actually a soft scoop out where the…
Love, Devotion, Bhakti
Just finished a new painting, for a very dear friend. And noticed again how strange that it is much more…
The Love of Allah
For a long time I have been trying to express in my paintings the idea of what is Love to…
The (invisible) flute player…
“Love plays and is the music being played. Let that musician finish this poem.” ~Rumi “The Flute…
The song of separation
click on images below to see details… click on images below to see edges… “The Song of Separation” acrylic, oil…
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…
Ganesh – The Doorkeeper
A more unusual depiction of Ganesh as he holds the world like he would usually hold a ladu (Indian sweet…
This Side and That Side… Meditation – painting in process
I have been working on a larger piece of painting on Styrofoam. Actually two pieces that merged to one, and…
“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…
The power of music…
Wonderful concert last night at the Zipper Hall with the Camerata Pacifica. Reminds me again of the power of music.…
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…
Emerging Goddess
It took a while but finally…
Only looking
acrylic on canvas,18 x 24 inch (46 x 61 cm)
Divine Mercy
acrylic on canvas,18 x 18 inch (46 x 46 cm)
Heart-strings
Heart-strings – The pain has helped me heal. It’s all connected, the pain, the sacredness, the fruitful opening of it…
In your hand
This is an intuitive painting that emerged from the canvas before my eyes. ‘In Your Hand,’ is where the delicate…
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…
The Fragrance of Union
acrylic and collage on canvas, 24 x 24 inch (61 x 61 cm) This Union you want With the earth…
Devotion
Now available as large stretched canvas print! Original painting by Claudia Dose acrylic on Styrofoam, 32 x 17 x 2…
The Essence
acrylic on styrofoam,32 x 17 x 2 (depth) inch,(81,2 x 43 x 5 cm) One result of the experiment painting…
Aiming (when the treasure is so near)
acrylic, mixed media on paper,H 24 x W 20 inch (61 x 51cm)
Broken Promises
acrylic, mixed media on paper, H 24 x W 20 inch (61 x 51cm)
Initiation
They say you smelled of roses. acrylic on canvas, H 20 x W 24 inch (51 x 61cm)
Fighting the ego dog
One of the Sufis‘ favorite metaphors is the dangerous ego-self (al-nafs) as a dog that the Sufi strives to tame…
Freedom and fear
Here is another painting that intuitively appeared before me, expressing a sense of freedom and fear simultaneously. Und meine Seele…
Feeling Protected
This was one of a series of paintings that emerged as I was exploring intuitive painting. One can feel comfort…
God’s Hands are Big – (Embracing and Letting Go)
acrylic, mixed media on canvas, H 20 x W 24 inch (51 x 61cm) Hand is above hand, child, in…
“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”…
My Brother’s Wedding portrait
Finished! As promised, here is my gift for my Brother and his wife’s wedding. (There will be a baby soon,…
Queen of Oranges
We visited friends in Australia and their new daughter was the inspiration for a portrait I did when I got…
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…
In the Spell of Magnolias – The Cycle of Life and Death
I am fascinated with magnolias. Their smell is intoxicating. Just one in the room. They change quite fast from snow…