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 […]

The Guide from Beyond – abstract sumi e. Your guide may not be telling you what you want to hear. But it might be what helps your soul to grow the most. “Be Grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. * Rumi (CB) “The Guest House” 1839S Imagine […]

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 […]

Abstract Sumi e – Find heart and soul and the infinite resource within. We need to spend some time together discovering and exploring the Essence of Spirit. It is here, now, every moment. No need to move from where you are. My God You surprise me “being right in my middle…” -unknown source – 1832S […]

Paint abstract sumi e from your heart. Find joy through Beholding, Knowing You Are Held, and Releasing the Chi Energy of that so it can grow and expand is the theme of my workshops. A new one is scheduled for August 15, 2020. “When you see a pearl on the bottom, you reach through the […]

Happening Soon – Live workshop – August 15, 2020, 10-2:30 p.m. Foothills Art Center in Golden, CO. “Ink and Joy – Sumi e From the Heart” “Who would have thought my shriveled heart Could have recovered greenness? It was gone          Quite underground; as flowers depart To see their mother-root, when they have blown,                       Where […]

How can you find hope through art and inner work in these troubled  times? Below and in future blogs, I share a path. This is how you too can do this. writing my own haiku and painting it me and the sleek geese make tracks through the slushy sleet on a cold March day   […]

The experession of chi, or life energy, in abstract sumi e painting, based on a poem by Rumi, is my intention here. This is one of my recent favorites, mounted by Brian at Metropolitan Frame Company with Andy where I had my last January solo art show! 1912S -1  The Lover Wakes “Like this universe […]