These past three years have changed all of us. Not only in the collective, obvious ways. You may have changed on a personal, interior level in ways you did not intend, nor could have foreseen. You may even be upset with yourself that you don’t feel the same way about certain things. Wondering if you…
Category: painting
Painting: Thank You for the Minutes
This painting was painted on top of an older painting I had done which was called “I’ll think About It”. I think I was running short on stretcher bars at the time, but the name seems rather fitting as I do tend to think about things for a while before making decisions. So I started…
Painting: Permission to Not Know Yet
I began this painting following a dream in which I dove into a lake to help someone retrieve something they couldn’t reach. In the dream I remember the phrase, “Dive in, you only live once”. Then a few days later I found the diving image that has been incorporated into the painting, in one of…
Painting: Green is My Color
Green is the color for Libra (Sept 23- Oct 22) and is the season we are in now. Libra is ruled by the planet Venus and symbolizes art and music, beauty and the natural world. Libras seek balance and harmony in relationships, fairness, justice, equality, and love. Beauty reflects inner harmony. This painting was inspired…
Painting: Anime Gemelle Sotto la Luna Viola
This was the 1st painting ever completed in my new studio at my house. Having the new freedom of making a big mess, I was able to use water freely to disperse the pigments. So I could color-wash the canvas and also spray watercolor washes over the wet paint. These are some of the ways…
Painting: The Dreaming
Inspired by the feeling of being stuck, I used some time for introspection and dreaming. Have you ever had a dream where you discovered a magical room in your house that you never knew existed? Well this painting feels something like this to me. Remember when you once allowed yourself to have unrealistic dreams. Feel…
Painting: Cien Por Ciento Locos
Well, this painting took a while. Most of the time just sitting there waiting to be actioned upon, if that’s a word. It started out being about the constructs of the mind. Each of us has a way we think, we have a set of beliefs that most of the time we don’t even realize…
Painting: Hope & Despair
Cycles of great outer change often begin with changes in the inner world, the unseen things; Priorities, perspectives, perceived possibilities, values and expectations. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. “ When I first painted this piece, in October 2020, I didn’t write anything about it. I…
Erica St. Amanze 