Veil Painting

Between The Veils

A misty sky, and mysterious orbs rolling in deep water. When the veils between the objective world and the beyond are thin, and your eyes can perceive the unseen, deep knowledge and comfort can be found. There is nothing to fear.

Sacred Feathers

In this watercolour veil painting, areas were masked off during initial colour glazes to form lighter geometric bands erupting from the centre. In my mind these resembled different feather structures, so details were painted in and outlined in metallic rose gold. The result is a deconstructed dream-catcher, sending out only the most hopeful and inspired dreams into the world

Stories She Tells

She told herself

She was at home in the woods

Tucked amongst the trees and rocks

What more should she want

Than the cold comfort found in solitude

Shadowed by her silent guardians

Still, her gaze would travel through the span

And find the cozy cottage across the land

But the distance appeared too great

Too far to travel beyond her sheltering gates

So she stayed, wistfully waiting

Under the changing skies

And watched the beckoning lights come on

One by one

Inside

In My Bubble

 A combination of watercolour veil painting overlayered with metallic copper paint in geometric designs, this piece honours the magic of geometry found in the natural world, the conjoining shapes evoking a vibrant floral energy of petals and stamen, emphasized by the organic and feathered outlines

Lady In Red

When all seemed desperate and destroyed, suddenly a lift of her skirt and a wisp of wind. She has found her wings and is soaring high above the burning fires.

Dream Flight

Did this little girl fall asleep while reading her book? Was she swept into the dream world by a gigantic powdery moth? Or is she a character in the book she is reading, come to life? The magical in-between spaces call to her: sleeping & waking, imagining & dreaming, wishing & manifesting

Life is Magic

I’ve always had a strong bond, even almost an obsession, with just about every animal I meet. When I was a little girl, my best friends were all different sorts of creatures, whom I trusted and admired unfailingly, and who I tried to protect from the bigger, scary human world around us.

In times where we think the worst, or maybe expect the worst of those around us, it can help to remember that the world IS magic – none of what is happening makes any sense, and the world in which we live could be nothing more than a figment of our collective imagination. It’s either total randomness and chance or nothing is random. I choose to believe the latter; nothing is chance and nothing is impossible. Lifting an ancient, barnacled blue whale by balloons so he can experience the world above the surface makes my inner child gasp with delight. And that is as real as anything else.