I have been using intuitive and healing painting for many years and love it. It’s my favorite way to paint.…
Time in Timelessness
Watching (and “reading” the audiobook of) Outlander has been a real time-bender for my mind. It stretches and bends and…
“Wonder Women” Local Treasures – thinking of 12 Kalis, feminine energy
Went to the panel discussion for the art show “Wonder Women: Local Treasures” at the Berkeley art center . .…
my heart will not be still . . .
Not sure why I love Persian music so much, and this one went straight to my heart . . .…
Inspired by the Beauty of Darkness
How do you cope with “dark” days? At least weather wise I am having difficulties to get used to the…
Impressions from the North of Germany
Today was a typical foggy day on the coast and I took the bus down to the small town of Vegesack,…
Can beauty save the world?
A friend of mine invited me to an award ceremony at the Bower Center here in Berkeley, for an organization…
A feast for the senses
In August we went to do Panchakarma in Kerala, South India. Panchakarma is an Ayurvedic means to purify your body…
Unstoppable or what is stopping us
I am not exactly sure what I found so scary about attending a workshop called “Unstoppable” by Bill Baren Coaching. Bill…
Summer travels
What a summer it was! Exiting and adventurous travel in North India. Visiting friends and family in Europe to hang…
I bow to the surprise and wonder…. a tribute
Just re-reading Red’s book of poems that his daughter gave us after he passed away. I will forever remember the…
Does the picture quarrel with the painter?
Been thinking about this a lot. How this crazy, at times wonderful, at other times painful illusion of existence and…
Looking back to move foward
I was reading that in order to move forward we need to first look back at what we have already…
Showing my art next Saturday
I look forward to meeting you… at the Culver City Art Group Holiday Art Exhibit 2015 Sat. November 7th noon…
Showing my art in a group show
I look forward to meeting you… at the Culver City Art Group Holiday Art Exhibit 2014 Sat. November 22nd noon…
Exhibiting with THE PEACE PROJECT
My painting “Burned Angel” has been selected for the traveling exhibit of THE PEACE PROJECT. If you are in the Bay…
Promise me….
“Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves,…
morning hours
I have shifted my studio times into the early morning hours. It such a precious time. Even though I love…
“Your voice may sound unfamiliar to you if you’ve never heard it before!”
Getting back into the studio after a long absence of only small projects and dabbling with felt. Been very busy…
Something I always wanted to try…
I’ve always wanted to learn to felt. And when I saw the beautiful creations my massage therapist had made I…
The body . . .
Reading Daniel Ladinsky’s translation of Rumi verses and really like this one, perhaps befitting the last painting . . . …
Getting the canvas wet…
…and experimenting with black.
Art meets music…
Two of my paintings found a place on the CD cover of Jens Mügge’s music. He is making a very…
“You Who Never Arrived”
You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don’t even know what songs…
without a reason…
Was just watching Gerhard Richter, Painting… Gerhard Richter Painting trailer from Kino Lorber on Vimeo.View video above on vimeo Kind…
grays and blacks…
Back in the studio after some well deserved relaxing with family and friends, watching some nice movies, reading some nice…
I’d like to meet you . . .
Been busy with preparations for a group exhibition with the Culver City Art Group in Playa Vista. I will be…
Be your note.
Each Note Advice doesn’t help lovers!They’re not the kind of mountain streamyou can build a dam across. An intellectual doesn’t…
Filling the creative well…
Getting out and about visiting friends in Berkley and Santa Cruz, just cruising 😉 and “filling up the creative well”.…
Hiking
I love hiking! I just don’t like the part of getting up early, and here in LA you have to…
exited beyond words…
Harmony by Remedios Varo, so detailed! In the beginning of this month I was lucky to make it to the…
rainbow
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. ~Native American Proverb I have been tricked by…
Re-thinking…
Have you ever wondered about the meaning of your life? Would you say we are “creating” it, or do you…
Walk with me…
Having some amazing time Down Under, marveling about life and death and the impermanence of it all and yet how…
Fragile
This painting was a result of seeing an article about a teen mother trying to smother her baby. It totally…
softly being hit on the head :-)
After finishing the recent painting “Listen with the ear of your heart “been thinking what “listen” really means. And even…
scars… (experiments in Photoshop)
Inspired by those easy Instagram Filters for Photoshop (thanks to Daniel Box) started playing with a photo (old and new scars) in Photoshop…
Knowing Who then i would kiss…
I really like Rabia and her poetry… Ironic, but one of the most intimate acts of our body is death.…
How long will this go on?
Yesterday, at dawn, passing by, the Beloved said to me, “Youare distraught and unaware; how long will this go on?…
loving, more loving…
Suffering only hurts because you fear it. Suffering only hurts because you complain about it. It pursues you because you…
What’s been hatching in my studio…
It all started with a piece of Styrofoam sticking out of a recycling bin (together with a wooden crate, which…
waste and graced :-)
Been watching some moving documentaries lately that I wanted to share. They are not directly related to my art but…
Go to the Limits of your Longing – Geh bis an Deiner Sehnsucht Rand
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These…
The Tortured Artist
This is interesting and has me wonder… Dave Eggers and Jonah Lehrer – Tortured Artists and ‘Grit’ “People who are…
What Happens…
Another beautiful poem by Hafiz that brought tears to my eyes for reasons that cannot be expressed any other way…
Inspiration… (coming and going)
…an unfinished painting and some leaves that started dancing…. 🙂 My first animation. Hope you enjoy!
separation pains…
Just exactly what is this longing that pulls us thru life: love, devotion, bhakti, I keep wondering, as I find…
Your deepest presence…
Birdwings Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirrorup to where you’re bravely working. Expecting the worst, you look,…
Stay empty and held between those fingers, where “where” gets drunk with Nowhere.
The Prophet has saidthat a true seeker must be completely empty like a luteto make the sweet music of “Lord,…
Nowhere and Nothing
Remember some time ago I wrote a blog post about my struggles to just relax guilt free and do nothing (“The…
Art, Grief, and Transformation…
So there I was, sitting on the stairs to the beautiful garden, green and lush with moisture from the sprinklers…
Jeden Tag ein neuer Tag . . . Every day a new day . . .
Been sorting thru old photos to print an album for my father. While entering the digital age have been leaving…
Look in a clear mountain mirror…
After all the frenzy and busyness, suddenly feeling quite (which could be the quite before or after the storm)… You Don’t…
June gloom…
Always forget about it when May is over and I think it is time for summer… the weather here in…
“The one who is not busy” is not me… yet
Been so busy lately, can’t seem to stop. And after reading this very good article, “the one who is not…
A Thought . . .
Its been quite here after a very busy time, and it is amazing to watch the amount of thoughts that…
because of the pain this world caused me…
Just when all the recent chaos and suffering and pain of the world seems to be unbearable and not making…
…here swimming ends always in drowning
This beautiful poem of Rumi I came across while watching a video of Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee “A Dangerous Love” which caught my…
unfurl yourself across the universe…
“Don’t forget love; it will bring you all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe.” ~Mirabai Impressions…
Winterwonderland…
Some impressions from my walk . . . just a small selection from . . . Winterwonderland
No More Leaving…
At Some point Your relationship With God Will Become like this: Next time you meet Him in the forest Or…
Home
“So you are going home?” they asked me. Having lived overseas (or away from “home”) and in many places and…
Head up in a cloud…
Detail of a beautiful mosaic that I saw while visiting with a dear friend. I used to make mosaics…
sometimes a little music makes all the difference…
Find more music like this on Overtone Music Network my favorites at the moment are “Call of the Birds” by…
Surrender to the will of my Beloved
One day I feel confused and down,the next I can reach the skywithout you I am never calm.In your absence…
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…
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…
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”…
inspired by nature…
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Freedom and fear
Here is another painting that intuitively appeared before me, expressing a sense of freedom and fear simultaneously. Und meine Seele…
Reflections
From Japanese Garden Very meditative just to sit and look at the water. Lucky it wasn’t raining or perhaps it…
tulip with light
Summer has come in the middle of winter, they call it santa anna winds, coming from the desert.
getting washed up on the beach in Australia
I am so excited about swimming in the ocean and the sun on my skin that just to get…
“Could you walk it quicker?”
could you walk it quicker Originally uploaded by claudia dose. … it says on the bus. Well, I tried and…
New Delhi
CIMG0829.JPG Originally uploaded by claudia dose. Staying in India is even better when you can cook your own food. Not…
rain
It is raining in North Carolina, just like in Germany. And I am already missing the Californian sun. We got…