A Deeper Connection

Recently I had been wanting to invest some time into my paintings as a balance to my carving practice. When I began this painting it was going to be purely a landscape. After the first session in my studio, I had a chat with my wife about it and how I felt there was just something missing, and that I was looking at including a figure, a subject that I love to paint but hadn’t really explored in a while. Ultimately I decided that If I was going to move forwards with doing some paintings that I needed them to ‘be from the heart’ And so I decided to incorporate a figure into and as the central subject, and take a risk and create something that I felt would actually Feed my Soul…not just my bank account, lol. I titled this piece ‘A Deeper Self Connection’ It is about connecting with YOURSELF. It is about quieting all the external noise and learning to listen to that inner voice that is deep inside, anchored to your core, anchored to nature, anchored to the deeper meaning of life. I love being out in nature, and just listening and connecting to the sounds and rhythms of the natural world. So this piece is also about slowing down, calming down, and honoring that part of yourself that often goes unnoticed or cared for while you are busy making money to survive. Many can probably relate to this now with the shutting down of the economy which happened not because of the pandemic, but because of the system that we all have collectively created that collapsed when faced with the reality of a spreading virus. CONNECTING with YOURSELF on the Deepest level should be a Human Right and in my opinion our World System should be BUILT around these intrinsic parts of what it means to be alive. Our World System should be designed to support the expression of these deeper parts of ourselves. Perhaps if we had done this in the beginning, a virus would not have ‘brought down the system’ or perhaps a virus would not have emerged in the first place the way it did. Lets create a world where we all have A Deeper Self Connection.