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Paintings -   Mandalas and   Carpet pages

each of these original paintings is executed with gouache (and opaque water-color medium) acrylic and 23k gold leaf on matboard. All are matted and framed using acid free materials.

A note on Carpet Pages and Mandalas:  Carpet Pages (Named thus because they look like Persian carpets) and Mandalas are meant to be viewed as meditative tools. By studying them, the viewer is drawn in through  the centre of the piece and arrives at the quiet place within them - the place from which life issues and the BIG ALL may be contemplated.                     prices are in  Canadian  dollars

 

Taorluath

a Mandala with a name taken from a bagpiping term - a combination of note played in rapid

succesion over a" ground" of root notes - an excellent model for existence.

price: $ 425

Gnosis

Gnosis means: " a direct Knowing of Divinity".

It is our birthright.

price: $ 300

SOLD

Star Mandala

This mandala was inspired by a computer- generated " fractal" image named peitgen. Fractal images like this illustrate the order underlying the apparent chaos of systems found in Nature.

price: $ 1,200

Mahabindu

In Hindusim, this is the "great point" - the perfect balance of all and the point from which all of creation is projected and the point to which all returns. The central point - the bindu , is surrounded by a holon - a series of concentric rings of repeated patterns, representing the different layers of perception and reality.

price: $ 475

sold

Manipura

This mandala contains a "double delta" design which represents teh perfect balance of male and female principles. Every Mandala acts as a portal and in this one is protected by a cluster of Monarchs.

price: $325 sold

That Which Calls Things into Being

This piece speaks. It is like the image of the Cretaor as seen by Moses inside the burning bush - " it burns yet it is not consumed".

The Aramaic word Jehovah or Yaweh means just that - " that which calls things into being" - a thought or intention, word or a sound which when projected, calls reality into being and draws us towards our true selves.

price: $1,100 sold

Maya II

This is an image of maya - a Hindu concept which ties together Cause ( creative power) and Effect (the cosmic flux - chaos). It is the energy field we create with our own consciousness.

price: $ 1,200

Portals of Grace

This is a true Carpet Page blow-out - a rectilinear mandala containing at the centre a triple vesica piscis , the geometrical representation of the cosmic gateway to Eternity.

Behind all the "chaos" of writhing lines, there is a sound geometric grid - a matrix designed to invoke an altered state.

price: $ 2,100

Time

This is a portrayal of the cyclical and fluidic nature of time.

price: $1100

Prana

This is an image of the Life Force - the never ending pulse of the "field" that holds together all matter, time and energy.

price: $ 225

A Host of Seraphim

This portal piece is another 3d mandala. In its heart, its bindu it contains the cosmos - the omnipresent heart of God - a heart of infinite love, infinite compassion and infinite ability to hold with innocence.

price: $ 575

Waterwheel

size: 7.5" dia (image), 16.5" x16.5" (framed)

Water patterns and the cycle of Creation dominate this painting.

price: $ 1400.00

A Different Kind of Ark

size: 7"x 9" (image), 16"x17" (framed)

An unfolding Lotus flower showing within it all of Creation - in many ways also a womb image

price: $ 1,200.00

Hindu-Hebridean Window

size: 4"x5" (image), 9x10" (framed)

A window - with a different view

price: $ 300.00

the Garden

size: 8.5" dia. (image), 18"x18" (framed)

This piece is about relationships. The exterior quote is from the Sufi poet Rumi. The interior passage is a dialogue between partners, self, children, parents and God. The central boss is pure Celto-Hindu-Hendrix blow out...don't fall in!

price: $ 1,500.00 SOLD

Thunderhead

size:4.5"x5.5" (image), 13"x15" (framed) constructed from layered matboard

This painting is adapted from a Balck Foot pictograms for thunderclouds, so I suppose those would be thunderbirds in the clouds.

price: $625.00

Keziah (hebrew: rainbow)

size: 6"x4" (image) 15"x13" (framed) constructed from layered matboard

What more can I say?...LOUD AND PROUD!

price: $ 625.00

Rockpool

size: 5.5" dia (image), 14"x 14" (framed) constructed from layered matboard

The Creation Matrix as seen in the fluid patterns of air and water: always moving always dynamic and full of potential life-force.

price: $ 725.00

Genesis Box II

size: 5.5" x5.5" (image), 11"x11" (framed) constructed from layered matboard

A even -armed cross set upon the primordial flux of Creation. Look at this one long enough and it will spin.

price: $ 625.00

Four Strong Winds

size: 6.5"x6.5" (image), 15"x15" (framed) - constructed from layered matboard

The Iona monks who produced the Book of Kells ( 8th century CE) followed a style of Christian observance adopted from the Egyptian Coptic Christian Church. Indeed, many of the Bibles these same monks copied from were from the Eastern Mediteranean world...East meets West.

From Iona spread a unique Christian belief system which held that all of nature (seen, unseen, animate and inanimate) was the creation of God and therefore all are sacred.

SOLD

price: $650.00

 

Annunciation

size: 4" x 4" (image), 12" x 12" ( framed)

A portrait of an angel

price: $375.00

            

 

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