A few years ago when we moved into our house, I found some pine wooden panels… thin boards. They might have been shelves in a previous life but they weren’t being used anymore. They have just been lying around and sometimes I would use them to work on with my clay but didn’t think about using them as substrates. I prepped one the other day with gesso and collaged it for fun and before I knew my beautiful one on the left appeared.

I loved working on the wood so much… I immediately prepped my new board with some left over paint, gesso and collage and my new one on the right appeared. I can see a theme and cohesiveness appearing in my work again this year. The circular halo’s have reappeared in my work and I’m loving that. Each one unique but similar and of course, nature, always nature. I am not sure I can not allow nature to appear anymore. I feel so connected to some of these elements.

The Peace Offering - 12” x 16” Mixed Media on wood

I now have four pieces in my little series and I have them all up next to each other and it’s quite breathtaking seeing them this way. I am so blown away at how similar they are but yet so different. I can’t seem to figure this part out, how each one created separate from each other at different times but yet they still seem to flow together. The alchemy of it all keeps my mind intrigued.

I have two more boards left but I will get some more cut as I would like to continue this little series mainly for my own practice. At the end of last year I started entertaining the idea of continuing this kind of creative play by attempting to do one a week for the play element and to see how I can grow in this medium. So far, I’m a little hooked. I’ll keep the commitment loose and gentle but right now it is holding my attention with so much love and joy. Which is always such a beautiful place to create from… long may this linger with me.

Thank you to those who have reached out to buy these works and tentatively put your names at the back. I will be in touch soon. As some of you know, I will be having an auction at the end of April and will share more about it in the coming weeks. I’ll know soon which pieces will be selected for the Auction floor.

Thank you for the love and beautiful personal messages the last few weeks, it’s helped me remember my “why”. I think last year I felt a little lost to that and having it back again has been such a touching gift.