Rebel Beauty

Spring Fury, now for sale

 

I am a student of my dreams. But I have to live in the day.

 

My dreams can be of survival, a grim testing of my wits and tenacity against foes seen and unseen.  The invisible ones are the worst, they will eventually take form, and the dread of how and why is a prolonged sweaty fear.

 

So in the day I take care of my dream life, out where I can legitimately handle the plot line and prepare for contingencies.

 

A riot of color on the paper, a fresh purple field of iris, with shadows of red lily, a hint of daffodil.  I combat the shadows with thalo blue and thalo green hues and the shadows are conquered.  With my brush I am the storyteller.  I subdue and call forth at will.  In the daylight while I am vertical and have a voice I can hear. Where there is no need to scream.

 

This is what art can do.  I can alter a dream, yet learn from its insecurity and vulnerability.  This is Spring Fury.  Beauty with a bite. Flowerful rebellion against the dying of the light.

 

Heidi

To purchase or inquire, call (360) 771-3160 or email traumacoach@gmail.com.

Somewhere

All God's Children Got Swing

Who is to say when “sometime” comes around, or where “somewhere” is found?

If one is furry faced or fair faced or a sienna or umber face, who is to say the bright joy of a tulip is not in your corner?

Somewhere there is a lighthouse braving the face of a moody sea.  Somewhere there is a tulip field waiting to blossom out of a winter’s night — and ready with eagerness to be taken to homes in bushels and loved and adored.

Somewhere there is a dog in a raincoat, primped and preened, on a leash walk through the city which is drenched in a sudden spring zephyr.

And all God’s children got swing.  There are roaring waves crashing, ill fitted rain coats and fields of flowers for everyone.  We just have to wait until for the somewhere.

Wait for the zephyr.  Wait for he color. Wait for the woof, the walk, wait for the swing.

“Spring Zephyr,” 16″ x 20″ acrylic on watercolor paper, $425.oo — email Heidi Hansen at traumacoach@gmail.com, or call (360)771-3160 for sales details.