It was a wonderful day with much splashing and banging to achieve glorious luminous first washes.
Irene Brand adding more lovely details to her beautiful beginning piece
Our idea was to paint beautiful houses and huts in glowing colour and build the painting from this base.
Sadly we only had one day and we were not able to complete the paintings but the beginning was just thrilling. I hope to reconnect with these wonderful artist and bring this painting to its completion.
Two beginning paintings with luminous washes
Thank you Fay Keevy for getting the Methodist Church Hall in JBay so that we could have this open and well-lit area for our creating.
Thank you to Christine Chapman for linking in all the St Francis Bay Artists and a Big thank you to all of you for bringing such a delicious spread of numsies for our lunch and tea.
Fay Keevy and Jenny Dawson
Thank you to Irene Brand for fetching, carrying and helping me to set up and give me a place to sleep in between the art explorations. I am SO Blessed with Delightful Friends.
Irene at the lovely French cafe of the Oudtshoorn Hotel
Gill’s painting beginning
Heather in creative progress
It is like walking in a painting
Hanneke using water flow to create an amazing beginning
Busy happiness
Marianne Saddington’s creation
Rose Kent’s magnificent rose
Rose’s beautiful work
Hanneke’s fast play flow experiment
Gill’s incredible flow painting
Rose’s flowing beginning
Studio cat in deep relaxation under the watchful eye of Shambles – painted by Christine as a gift for me x
Hanneke’s work – so fast and on the way to being a beautiful piece
Marianne and Christine in Jo’s studio
Heather
Gill working her cane chair and bougainvillea painting
Rose flowing colour and leaving light areas
View stop on the George pass
Hanneke’s beautiful piece
Christine Chapman experiencing flow of granulation
Tea and delicious juice break at the “The Pub”
The Chapel at Lords in McGregor – we are going to plan a retreat event here for sure. It was wonderful meeting Colin, thank you for the happy evening, soaking up the beauty of the mountains x
Ah – and the peace descends like a gentle breeze of Light and Love
Hanneke’s grandchild portrait using the granulation technique
Christine expressed colour in such a unique way
Jo’s Artist Prayer
Great company
The Studio
Heather Funston’s AMAZING creation
One of my favourite things – rooibos latte and scones at the Oudtshoorn Hotel
Rose
Getting there is part of the fun and of course – stopping for tea and scones
Heather’s painting taking shape
Christine’s cane chair
And REST in comfort
A long and beautiful drive from Plettenberg Bay to McGregor
Marianne’s folds of colour beginning to shape the rose
Oh Heather !
Rose
Berry, ginger, apple, banana, date fruit drink at “The Pub” in McGregor
Marianne loving the work into being
Gill
Heather’s flow painting capturing the imagination
Christine
Bougainvillea and my cane chair
Painting of Shambles my gift from Christine x thank you x
Irene – a great driver and Jack our trusty steed took us safely there and back
Christine
Heather Funston at the beginning of her masterpiece
Treasure Gift from Gill Ratcliffe
Playing with shape and colour, techniques and painting behind
Saturday, October the First 2011, was the inspiration day for the creation for Soul Awakening SA. It is our desire to bring a Light of Healing to this country and planet.
Amy Vermeulen, Irene Brand and Joy Truscott dreamed up the idea of collectively broadcasting a message of Hope, Love and Light.
We would love for you to be part of this. This is our answer to networking and sharing in a Loving, Unselfish and Encouraging way. We all have Unique gifts, knowledge and abilities. If we commit ourselves to sharing these gifts, we are able to make each of us more whole, more complete.
Whatever your gift might be, please consider sharing this with as many as you can – and from this platform we can begin to reach out to one another in the spirit of Love and Truth. Hold someone’s hand, guide, mentor, teach, encourage, applaud, and most of all help someone else to know the fullness of their potential – just because you cared.
Our beautiful planet is at a critical point in time. We can all crumble under the weight of the misery that abounds; the negative talk, the hate and fear, OR we can find small ways to connect, nourish, nurture and re-frame the events of our lives.
For the turn-around to happen, each and every one of us needs to know that we will have to make a contribution. We all need to become part of the solution in whatever way we can, no gesture is too small or insignificant. If you feel your contribution might be so small as to not be needed, think again. Just a smile can lighten up a life. We all have at least that. From small gestures of openness and authentic outreach, we can make an enormous difference. I know that we might not be here to see the outcome, but our children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews will be.
Let this message ignite a desire within you to “show up” in this world. Please join this Connection and log in to our network: http://soulawakeningsa.socialgo.com/magazine/read/what-are-we-about_5.html and let us see what can happen when enough like-minded and heart-connected people get together to make a difference.
We can do this. Join us, and join this world in the best way possible.
