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Flight Patterns November, 2024
In the recent September newsletter, I introduced a new series I initiated as a creative response to a ‘call to artists’ by the Confluence Gallery in Twisp, WA. Their exhibition theme, ‘Taking Flight’, asked artists to offer bird themed art. In that article, I gave...
Oct., 2024; Transitions: Meta-Realities
This month, I travel backwards in time, to share a group of encaustic paintings I almost completed before my travels to New Zealand (end of Jan through mid-March of this year). These works push the edge of the symbolic imagery I’ve been exploring for the last few...
A Different Kind of Inspiration
What inspires the imagery and themes in my artwork? I have spoken of this in many of my newsletters and of course, in statements (visible on my website: www.DebbieMathewArt.com). But today, I share a different source of inspiration that over the years has spurred new...
August 2024 – Heavenly Hands
Heavenly influences during August initiate the next part of the cycle of Jupiter and Saturn speaking to each other. Do you recall the solstice event on December 21, 2020; these 2 planets were conjunct (on top of each other )? This was the first time these planets...
July 2024 – The Invitation
July 2024 brings more light energies onto the earth via solar flares, and shifts of the Schumann Resonances, a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low frequency portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum. Translated as the Earth's heartbeat, when spikes...
June 2024 Art – How to Understand an Art Piece
THOUGHTS of where we are within the Cosmic Energies. 3rd week in June, we are now at the summer solstice time, where the northern hemisphere experiences the longest day of the year, and the shortest day in the southern skies. As the sun moves into Cancer, the moon...
May 2024: Blast from the Past; Influences; Current Work…
It’s a Sagittarius Full Moon today; time to share some creativity, and finish up an old way of doing things. New 3 part format: Past Artwork, Influences, Current Obsessions.
Is Your Life in Your Hands?
Hands are the most frequently symbolized part of the human body; they have so many poignant associations: 'Hands down...'; 'in safe hands'; 'don't bite the hand that feeds you'; 'guiding hand'...'upper hand'... 'force someone's hand'... ‘lending a hand’… the list...
NZ Travel Inspirations: Layering Process & Themes
Being in New Zealand for 6 weeks was a wonderful experience that invigorated my life and art. I’m using the adventure as an opportunity to reflect upon how I express the essentials within my art practice. For the first week in NZ, I played with...
Time to Shake It Up?
Happy New Year to my Art Peeps… and I’m wishing you a Wondrous 2024 In tumultuous times, it’s advantageous to use the unstable energies to get unstuck; we can lean into the possibilities at the start of the New Year. Did you set some goals for this year? Those goals...