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Welcome to my website....
My passion for art took root early in life, as a child who needed some way to feel better inside. By making art I could express myself and get positive feedback in a world that was often too harsh to comprehend. Art allowed me to be me for a time , to get lost in the flow of creativity and feel the energy of being connected with something greater.
This passion ebbed and flowed throughout life, as circumstances often dictate. Now I have finally come home to fully embrace my passion for creating. I realize that it is my purpose, and my joy to share both my art and my process of making art with others. I am compelled to serve the oneness in me - the experience of my soul when I go to the canvas. The beauty of making art from my soul has been a journey of healing deep wounds, finding love within and it has brought grace and acceptance into my life. It is this experience with art that I feel is one of the keys that helped change the course of my life. |
The years of moving through this healing journey have brought me into alignment with Nature, a connection that nourishes me daily. I feel extraordinary gratitude for all aspects of my life, even those parts that brought remarkable pain both as an adult and throughout childhood. Leaning into the most profound fears, gently and slowly has taught me to honor my inner wisdom and eventually revealed enough courage to allow expansion and growth in my life.
The processes I encountered on this path that have helped me most include transpersonal therapy, meditation, therapeutic art - including the Art of Allowing and Touch Drawing - and Somatic Experiencing. My growth is far from over, as always there are miles to go. Along the way, I’ve dipped into the light and the inner shadow both, the sacred voice of love and the deep well of all that is within me. I experience this awareness move through me in exaltation and pain, love and fear, anger, hope and peace, and I’m continually learning to listen to and embrace all aspects of my human being-ness and the spiritual wisdom of the Universe. There is not a single part of us that is unlovable.
The processes I encountered on this path that have helped me most include transpersonal therapy, meditation, therapeutic art - including the Art of Allowing and Touch Drawing - and Somatic Experiencing. My growth is far from over, as always there are miles to go. Along the way, I’ve dipped into the light and the inner shadow both, the sacred voice of love and the deep well of all that is within me. I experience this awareness move through me in exaltation and pain, love and fear, anger, hope and peace, and I’m continually learning to listen to and embrace all aspects of my human being-ness and the spiritual wisdom of the Universe. There is not a single part of us that is unlovable.
"I don't think there is any greater pain
than not being able to love yourself…"
Why I teach - I was compelled to become a facilitator for Art of Allowing because taking the class as a beginner was an outstanding, soul opening experience. I teach because making art from within ourselves brings us into greater awareness of our soul, and within this teaching, the sacred presence within us all. My focus at this time is about empowering others to seek within themselves, with the idea of creating more balance between two distinct and synergistic energies - the feminine and masculine principals inherent in all of life.
Exploring all aspects of the vastness of who we are brings us face to face with acceptance and love, and to embracing all that it means to be a living, breathing human being, as well as being one with others and all that is. It has moved me profoundly, and sharing with others is an honor. It brings beautiful connections and I welcome this place of knowing our uniqueness and our oneness. When we're able to open to our soul and allow our entire experience - the wounds, the darkness, the joy and depths of all that is seen and not seen, even the judgments we feel about it - we open ourselves to love and well being. This deep looking inward helps to light our way along the path of our lives. As we paint from our souls and listen to our own inner voice that rises to greet us, we create paintings that are unique expressions from our own experience. When we begin to heal our precious selves, we create a more loving existence within and around us and this in turn ripples out to the people closest to us and even out into the world.
I don't think there is any greater pain than not being able to love yourself. Perhaps all this work, all our lives, may at least in part come down to this - excavating those parts of us that have not felt loved, and loving them with an open heart.
~ With so much love, from my open heart to yours,
Vicky
Exploring all aspects of the vastness of who we are brings us face to face with acceptance and love, and to embracing all that it means to be a living, breathing human being, as well as being one with others and all that is. It has moved me profoundly, and sharing with others is an honor. It brings beautiful connections and I welcome this place of knowing our uniqueness and our oneness. When we're able to open to our soul and allow our entire experience - the wounds, the darkness, the joy and depths of all that is seen and not seen, even the judgments we feel about it - we open ourselves to love and well being. This deep looking inward helps to light our way along the path of our lives. As we paint from our souls and listen to our own inner voice that rises to greet us, we create paintings that are unique expressions from our own experience. When we begin to heal our precious selves, we create a more loving existence within and around us and this in turn ripples out to the people closest to us and even out into the world.
I don't think there is any greater pain than not being able to love yourself. Perhaps all this work, all our lives, may at least in part come down to this - excavating those parts of us that have not felt loved, and loving them with an open heart.
~ With so much love, from my open heart to yours,
Vicky
