My ArtBreath

New Book

¨Living Art & The Culture of Now”

“Living Art” is a phrase that came to me about 30 years ago. From my early days, in 1986, I became aware that i could only truly make art within the present moment of flow. Sometimes i would focus this with an intension or a theme or a lived experience. By working from spontaneous flow, I feel alive and within the frequency of the gift of life/love, which does alll the expresssing through me— not taking it for granted, but allowing it to be my guide as it flows through me. Years later i began to call this “NOWing”

When former U of T professor, Michael Tait, asked me at his cottage — what I paint, there was no further conversation when I replied,

“I paint the present moment.”

Hence, the Culture of NOW was born. What is that and how do you activate paintings and drawings when they meet your eyes? People ask me that all the time.

Living Art made in presence acts as a portal of the living present moment, because they were painted and drawn within the present moment with intention– they are activated and come to life as living moment- when they are seen, felt, perceived by a human.

Being highly aware of this state of living presence and intension — there are times i do experience mental fog or frustration of not knowing what I am doing, however, expressing within the spontaneity of the divine flow of love in the moment is the only way I know how to make art.

The how is a NOW .

There is no roadmap, to the paintings and drawings — I act with awareness, intention and life experince, facing the blank page with a brush, vine charcoal, a colour, a form, a willingness, a feeling, curiosity, walking past fear thousnads of times a day… allowing the strokes to be the energy of life itself.

It is not a technique, it is a practice, an inspired devotion to living life freely and making art my daily practice along with silence and just stopping and being. In this way, my inner and outer moments align to chance, to surprises– a not knowing… an all out NOWing.

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