Friends – we most need in troubled times. “friends make you look good, feel supported, and stay close to your heart.” -Unknown 1862S It is true that friends are what we most need in troubled times. I think that pretty much says it all. Through covid, division, injustice and angst this recent period in our […]

My abstract sumi e “Ruby Mine Inside” is inspired by the Persian poet Hafiz.   Don’t die again with that holy ruby mine inside still unclaimed when you could be swinging a golden pick with every step. – Hafiz 1859S-2 You can claim that ruby mind inside yourself if you have the will and yearning, […]

Abstract Sumi e – What To Give Up, expressions of the Ch’i in paintings by Marilyn Wells from poetry and Wisdom School teachings. Give up your proud aims, your wishes, mannerisms and extravagant claims! -Unknown 1858S What is it we have to give up? All our precious identity we spend so much time crafting. It […]

Abstract sumi e prints, soon available at Marilyn Wells Art Studio online store. My opening, a long anticipated event, slowly coming together. Feels like just in time for the holidays, or so I hope… “…a premonition of an incursion into a forbidden world whence it was going to be infinitely difficult to return…”   – […]

5280 Magazine features abstract sumi e by Marilyn Wells in their Holiday Dec/Jan 2020, end piece. …by the laws   of their faith, not logic,     they opened their wings       softly and stepped         Over every dark thing.   – M.O. “Egrets” 1850S For 5280 Magazine featuring abstract […]

Denver’s top City magazine, 5280,  @5280magazine, is featuring Marilyn Wells’s abstract sumi e in their Holiday Dec/Jan issue end piece. Such happy news, anytime, especially now, when so many of us artists have been shut down from sharing and showing our art. Happily interviewed by @ChristineDeOrio, Associate Editor, and @danapsmith79, Art Director, working with my images for […]

A sumi e abstract painting of the poem by Hafiz that Life is Far Too Precious, too Sacred to ever end… “Indeed God has written a thousand promises All over your heart that say, ‘Life Life Life Is far too precious to ever end.’” -Hafiz 1845S Life Is, Is, Is that precious! Silence helps us […]

My sort of heart is one that goes pretty deep. Sometimes it may seem others do not understand these abstract sumi e paintings. “Because time is endless and our planet vast, I [paint these sumi e] for a person who will one day be born with my sort of heart.” -Paraphrased from Poems of Ancient […]

Let go the life you planned – Have the life that is waiting for you – illustrated in abstract sumi e. “Think that you’re gliding out From the face of a cliff like an eagle. Think that you’re walking like a tiger walks By himself in the forest. You are most handsome when you are […]

A love song and the divine in abstract sumi e. I almost didn’t show this painting today, as the subject matter might not seem to match the heaviness of the times, with covid, the political situation, the climate crises happening all over the world and all over America, from what my friends tell me, East […]