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New Work: Exploring Nature’s Dialogues
Plein air painting and drawing is a type of communion with the natural world. Becoming absorbed in the myriad sounds, smells and shifting light is a spiritual experience.
You have to work with swift strokes, responding intuitively to The Now. No time for doubt or ‘should’. It just is. Sometimes the wind or bugs challenge the process – they are my teachers. The frustration that naturally arises can be observed without judgement, with practice.
Painting outside is always a big event for me, and doesn’t happen nearly often enough. The art that arrives is what it is in the moment. I never fix anything afterwards. Every stroke is a relic of that particular moment, and can never be replicated. This piece is original in every sense.
About the Art
I call my technique ‘sensory time weaving’. Holding raw materials in my bare hands, working the surface with my skin connects me to a wider, multi sensory experience of belonging to this life. Entering a receptive dream state, symbolic language sketched in the field emerges. Fragmented masses of light coming through trees are poems. Dancing reflections on water are songs. Drawing with pastels and charcoal collected from wildfire is a primal, healing way to engage with the transformational process of nature.
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I offer a free guided tour of the art collection. There’s 3 floors packed with paintings and drawings. You can also look by yourself, I’ll welcome you at the door and point you in the right direction. Complimentary beverages are available for you! Kombucha, Tea, Coffee, sparkling water..There’s no obligation to buy, just enjoy the culture!
"Everything is held in place by its gravitational attachment to something else."
Kashmir Pastel 15 x 22″
Purchase this painting
The Welsh term ‘Hiraeth’ comes to mind when I think about gravity. It has no literal translation, but means a longing for Welsh culture and places. It can also refer to a longing for something that never existed.
I’m a Welsh artist, but Tahoe is my home now. I came here on an endless bouldering road trip in 2005, met my American soulmate and stayed. I’m influenced by the flow of rivers, skies and wild landscape. I’m fascinated by the constant transformation of the natural world.
Greetings Cards – 6 Pack
Pack of six blank cards featuring original artworks – Kashmir, The Japanese Garden, Goluedy, The Exchange, Y Sgwrs, Y Gwaithdy. Measures 4 x 5.5″
News
In 2021, The Caldor Fire ignited near South Lake Tahoe. It burned 221,835 acres in the Eldorado National Forest and other areas of the Sierra Nevada. The fire dropped down Echo Summit above our community, and burned both sides of the valley we live in. Our narrow strip of riverside forest was saved by firefighters. Since then, wildfire has been one of the most persistent features of our landscape. I gathered charcoal from the fire, and made drawings with it, as a healing way to process the experience.
