Dream Lodge (Green)/SOLD
Oil on canvas, 9x12
This little green Dream Lodge is one of a series of four I painted in different colors - blue, violet, gold, and green - to explore light at different times of the day.
These Dream Lodges are drawn from actual structures people have built with driftwood at South Beach, but they remind me of many other things, for instance, from my own (Scandinavian and Scottish) heritage, the stone or wooden sauna was used for many purposes (similar to the Native American sweat lodge): ritual self-care, cleaning and communing, but also for times of transition and passage.
Women gave birth in the sauna, the ill were brought to the sauna to heal; in death, the bodies were brought to the sauna to be washed and blessed. They say that a Druid would die in the sauna, and be able to pass her magic on to the next generation.
I hope that whoever sees my art will be able to tap in to that feeling of self-care, healing, enlightenment and magic!
From my small studio at the Friday Harbor Atelier, in the small harbor town (yes, Friday Harbor) on San Juan Island, I paint abstract landscape paintings with a touch of sacred geometry. I love to go to the beach at the San Juan Island National Historical Park called South Beach, with a unique 2-mile beach covered with old-growth driftwood. I take photographs and sketch the fascinating forms there. Then I go back to the studio and work from those primary documents and allow the painting to emerge. I hope my paintings can transport you into a space of imaginative form, color and spirit.