Totemix Mindfullness Colouring Sheets n Cards Setup....

So, my works made it to be featured at The Emporium for November after all :-). Illustrations made with love. Setup in the plinth area nigh the entrance. Along with fabric patches and 'Beautyways' tea towels....during the marking of 10 years since founding roots of the Artists co-op. 

Here's a few of the eight designs, injoy...

And now a call out, for sightings of the 'Seasons n Cycles' piece I crafted over some 3 months, which went missing in action, hopefully may see it returned? Twas going to be central to sharing these drawings of the natural beauty of Iluka, which so needs to be stewarded well and with care. All that's left to finish this, is to colour the lands in the central map of where Mama Clarence meets the ocean. Mayhaps, I'll get the chance to do so yet......here's hoping!  Generally, we need that!

Seed sprinkling jig with full moon n gentle rain....

My Grandmothers lineage, on both sides, shared a love of green folks. Their, and Diana Mum and Aunt Marian's dna is full swing in my veins in the now. I well remember Gran Bea and Alice's gardens. With Roses, Foxgloves n Hollyhocks growing alongside Banksia, Coastal Tea Tree and Moonah's. Indigenous and migrant plant layers....

Earthing / grounding out is a solid therapy indeed. For the whole being in a two way street with plants nurtured. In the UK 'Green Prescriptions' for Eco-therapy are given by GP's in a pretty solid main stream acknowledgement of this phenomena. It was thus in psychiatric care before pharmaceuticals yet existed. Oh the potentials for combining the realms in non polarity! Medicine ways is medicine ways. Tucker n magical supplies fresh from growing mmmm......

 

This Aries full moon (the energy's around a few days before indeed) saw me sprinkling seeds beneath grey skies. Weeding, a word (and task) it's rare for me to engage with, except where a plant becomes a dominatrix and suffocates diversity. Then, it's time to go. Thus, after being away some months, I weeded tall n stubborn grasses out of my herb n flower beds, including the spiral one. Added a layer of composted down lovely now soil, then danced a jig! Sprinkling seeds directly into the worm filled mix layered over our sandy beds. Cosmos, Hearts ease, Red Salvia, Rocket, Wild Rocket, Asian greens, Parsley n such, round about. 

After watering them in and then covering the ground with sarongs to prevent em drying out a couple o days, now listening to the second gentle rain fall upon earth for em. Good things happen when sky water is thus. I don't know exactly why. but it's just a cloud zapped different substance to tap water. Sarongs off, shallow mulch layer exposed! First wee sproutlets! 

"Live long, grow strong'' is my planting blessing....

 As you can see harvests o Roma tiny tomatoes galore, and in answer to my curiosity I find, yep they ripen after being harvested green. Be gathering their seeds, tough as survivors, and sweeeeeet. Kale, Wild Rocket, Parsley, Motherwort and Nasturtiums galore! Love to simply pick and eat the bright spicy flowers straight from the Nasturtium patch, or pop petals n smaller leaves into salads.

The poppies I'd sown similarly in the fore mentioned jig style, some 6 months ago, are all grown up and flowering despite our absence! I've been picking a few and bringing them inside, how could you resist these....

So, there's a window into Nomad aka Mush cat n my days of late. Nature the ultimate artist, mentoring, healing n mending, yet again......

Familiars....

 

Life created a journey, aside from November exhibition.....

 

 

Once more I find, in what had felt separate, yet is part of this time, I am gently cradling envisioning again. Offered the capacity to spread wings in a return to freedoms, folk and nature, I hold dear. Grieving the loss of some. Life created a journey, aside from November's exhibition at The Emporium. Not to be, this time round....

It was an adventure 'tis true....

Yes, through the portal, a vortex of being unwell......

I could say nought, allow the above Phoenix like image to speak alone. Yet that would silence the realities of those of us who have, and continue to, work with some of the challenges of the mind, heart and soul. Sharing only it's creativity. For the two are contained within, and with out. The transmutation into the bird like rebirth and flight, which can occur as we heal n mend.....

May it be so for all......

Totemix….

 Currently channeling heart and soul into creating for 'Totemix', feature artist gig in November, through the alchemy and magix of the process of drawings, to be coloured in by folk. 

Like tarot or oracle decks offer signposts, animals and plants sing messages through their medicines, as encountered. Here Blue toungue marks the year of the Dragon with her reptilian dna, watching over and protecting in her dreams, the teaching place. Where we come for incarnation, with it's challenges and beauty. To be inspired and touched by the muses of love, connections, seasons, as they ebb and flow like the tides. 

Invocations of story form our lives, and the sentience that surrounds echo them. Fancy way of saying tales form in daily journeys lived. I look to some friends including animals, plants, water and land for wisdom n peace, as folk have beyond time and continents, including in song....

Warning: this clip includes footage of indig fella now in spirit

Anonymous visions…

 

Happy Envisionings n Manifestings for Next Cycle Round Sun....

 

Blessings n Good Vibes