THE SUBTLE MATTER SERIES
My scientifically inspired, intuitive creative process explores the intersection of art, science and spirituality. Energy and movement, the essential elements of existence, are central to my work.
I paint this moving energy as the light of being, the chemistry of emotion and as coded information. I imagine energy fields in relationship on a quantum level, particularly at the boundaries and meeting places that birth change. I imagine the microcosm of our bodies, our cells, our psyches and how these inner spaces interface with the rest of existence.
The “Subtle Matter” series continues this work via a collection of painted meditations on the healing properties of individual crystals. Referencing the Etheric or Subtle Body (the layer of energy just outside the physical body), the delicately complex range of human experience and emotion, and the physical crystals themselves, “Subtle Matter” celebrates the power of vibrational medicine and its ability to heal, recognizing that everything is simply energies in relationship.
What we physically relate to and bring into our energy field has a very real impact on our being whether we are conscious of it or not. Science shows us this is true. Tuning into the subtle energy of an object like a crystal, which has its own history and properties, is an exercise in expanding our awareness of this impact so we can then use it to make changes with intention as we move through our lives as part of the universe.
In this space between science and spirituality, the “Subtle Matter” series encourages us to consider the physical reality of the effects of energies large and small, subtle and overt, on our mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. For this work, as in the previous series “Boundaries Lost and Found,” I use multiple layers of house paint to achieve a rich history of complex and fragmented information that combines to form a unique and whole “reality.” This “reality” changes when viewed from different distances and perspectives, lending the paintings a sense of being the living, pulsing, emanating fields I imagine them to be. This series however, is also encoded with information from the crystals. Each painting includes a coded repeating pattern of dashes making up the outermost ring that spreads to the edges. These Morse Code patterns communicate the stones properties (the titles are the codes)- and the intentional energy that I explored, held and often experienced myself while creating each piece.
ANCIENT SOOTHING FOREST MAGIC (AMBER) 36X36in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
BRIGHT AND ABUNDANT DREAM MANIFESTATION (CITRINE) 36X36in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
ENERGY PURIFICATION FOR HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS (APOPHYLLITE) 36X36in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
FEMININE GRACE (CHRYSOCOLLA) 20X20in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
GROUNDING (ARAGONITE) 20x20in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
MOVE FORWARD IN GROUNDED POSITIVITY (UNAKITE) 48X48in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2020
PURE HEART HEALING LOVE (RHODONITE) 30X30in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
JOYOUS POTENTIAL OF SELF WORTH (RHYOLITE) 48X48in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2020
MYSTIC PROTECTION (BLOODSTONE) 30X30in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
PASSIONATE FLAME OF CONFIDENCE AND CREATIVITY (CARNELIAN) 48X36in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2020
HEAVENLY GUIDANCE AND MAGICAL SERENDIPITY (CELESTITE) 36X48in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
PROTECTION AND COURAGE THROUGH LIGHT AND DARK (AGATE) 48X36in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2020
RADIANT AND INTUITIVE MOON MAGIC (MOONSTONE) 36X36in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
CLEAR AND TRANQUIL OCEAN WISDOM (LARIMAR) 48X48in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2020
COMPASSIONATE UNIVERSAL LOVE AND KINDNESS (ROSE QUARTZ) 48X48in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2020
SEEING PRESENT MOMENT WISDOM (LABRADORITE) 36X36in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
SPIRITUAL CLARITY (PINK AMETHYST) 20X20in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
TRUTH FLOWS (AMAZONITE) 30X30in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
WILLPOWER TO DETOX AND NOURISH (APATITE) 36X36in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
INTUITIVE INTELLIGENCE FOR AWARENESS AND EXPANSION (AZURITE) 20X20in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2021
SACRED HEALING EARTH WISDOM (TURQUOISE) 48X60in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2020
BALANCING HEART HEALING SUPPORT WITH INDEPENDENT STRENGTH (RUBY FUCHSITE) 20X20in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2021
DEEP AND GROUNDED TRANSFORMATIONAL FOCUS (SMOKEY QUARTZ) 20X20in. House Paint and Acrylic on Canvas, 2021