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By connecting with those inner aspects of self, life begins to show you a road map, and gives you insight into your potential.
Painting is my passion! What is yours?
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The Universal message here is that we are all full of potential; we only need to look within and access what is waiting there for us. For me it is bringing together all the aspects of me that I have access to and sharing that knowledge with others via my paintings, teaching, healing, writing, communicating etc. By utilising my skills I am able to not only create the life I want but help others to see how they can too.
Emergence of the Genie
This is a painting I did in 2005, for the specific purpose of advertising. I was endeavouring to promote my business via the local newspaper. The reporter wanted to take photos of some artworks I had completed previously and also with me in the process of painting something. I’ve learnt since that most of my clients come via word of mouth or talks I’ve done, the usual means of advertising doesn’t seem to work for me. Therefore I have come to the realisation that indeed I need to TRUST. This has not been the easiest lesson for me and I am sure Spirit is having a real belly laugh at me admitting to that one.
Trust
This painting presented when my husband was very ill and we had to move from where we were living.
Having Faith
Painting is my Passion!
Having Faith
This painting presented when my husband was very ill and we had to move from where we were living. To say that we are alone in our hour of need is not truth; this was my hour of need and the message given. What is truth is that we are surrounded by beings wanting to help us through these tough times. All we need to do is have FAITH and ASK for their help. It is being offered in so many ways, THEY ARE THERE FOR US AS THEY ARE PARTS OF US AS WELL. PARTS OF OURSELVES WE HAVE CHOSEN TO DISREGARD AND PRETEND DON’T EXIST….our imaginations playing tricks. It is time we opened to these dimensions again and made our world WHOLE once more …embracing all!
In this painting the subject or story is in three parts overall but with subtleties of information hidden in the background.
- Firstly the largest aspect is the couple entwined in the foreground. Love for oneself.
- At the top is the Buddha like figure/Faith.
- Thirdly the image of an open hand coming in from the RHS two thirds of the way up./The gift or offering.
My LESSON that day was that we are more than we think we are! We ARE POWERFUL BEINGS but we can fool ourselves by the BELIEFS we choose to have and believe ourselves to be LESS THAN WE TRULY ARE. WE ARE CREATORS IN OUR OWN RIGHT AND HAVE THE CHOICE to choose the best possible outcomes.
The Offering
The message here is about the connection with my Higher Self/Multidimensional Self. There is a stream of rainbow energy or consciousness that connects us. It connects all the aspects of self, all the different lives, like the Indian self through which the rainbow/consciousness passes.
Focused on the Light
The first story shows me Mother Nature adorned with and hiding amongst her children with flowers and birds. She is reminding me of the wonder and pure joy that can be experienced within her landscape wherever it is. This painting has a story on all four sides which can happen sometimes, different but all connected.
Mother Nature
I’ve named this painting “Communication of the Heart” for that is the message it brings. This message is not only for me but a universal one. It tells us that God/Goddess holds our hearts in His/Her hand and the God within shows us the way to real or true love is through communication of the heart.
Communications
of the Heart
This was my very first painting, the one I used on my business card previously. The content of this painting was a dream I had some fourteen years prior to 1997. It was in this dream I saw my husband and I step through a portal from another dimension to this one. He was looking out to a view of beautiful golden fields of grain, and saying “Come on we have a lot to do, we don’t have time to waste.” Whilst I on the other hand was reluctant to leave my home, I guess knowing what was before us in this life. I looked back to where I was leaving and I saw an Indian village resting peacefully by a beautiful stream. As we stepped through the portal another family, a man, his wife and child (all Indian) stepped back into where we had come from. This was the extent of the dream.
Hope
Have you noticed that when you are in balance you are in tune with nature and animals will come close to you? Nature is a wonderful healer of the spirit soothing the weary soul. I was being told I needed to take time out to relax and enjoy and commune with nature. What was required was relaxing and meditating not doing, doing, and doing all the time.
Balance
The Universal message here is that we are all full of potential; we only need to look within and access what is waiting there for us. For me it is bringing together all the aspects of me that I have access to and sharing that knowledge with others via my paintings, teaching, healing, writing, communicating etc. By utilising my skills I am able to not only create the life I want but help others to see how they can too.
Emergence of the Genie
The Phoenix is a mythical creature that was said to have risen out of its own ashes, a rebirth.
This is the message in this particular painting, it reminds us that no matter what we go through, how much we have to deal with, with courage and conviction to move forward we will all experience a death of something and a rebirthing into something new.
If we face our fears and tackle our demons head on we will emerge victorious. We will have found the strength and courage to move forward. Then looking back we see that yes it may have been painful but it was totally necessary for you to see the truth of the situation. Our fears may have been realised but we have now been reborn, with so much clarity and more energy to move forward to what we really want our life to be.
To become the creators we truly are, having shed the outgrown and ready to face the future with renewed joy.
Now you know you can open your wings and fly!
Enjoy your journey,
Ivan & Marnee
Pheonix Rising
Here is a vision of another dimension where nature is more valued and is prominently represented here alongside the warrior spirit. Have you noticed that her quiver holds no arrows? I know this spirit I have seen her before and in that place she is Indian but from another dimension. A place where harmony resides, birds and animals are not fearful because they live with the Indians, equal to one another.
As she looks through the portal to see what is happening here on Earth the message is given from the One who appears from behind. The message is ‘How much do you really know of yourselves?’ “Do you know that you are many, and reside in many places, in many other dimensions all at the same time?”
The more you learn and grow the more you are able to access the knowledge held within. If you could look from a greater vantage point you would see that each of these aspects of you belong to one larger soul that is a culmination of all your aspects and all your knowledge and experience.
All you have to do is open your mind, open your heart and connect with your inner self, the spirit that is you in this time and space to access other lives and the larger aspect of Self.
This painting was completed in 2015.
Other Aspects and Dimensions
This was one of those paintings I have from time to time, that I look at and can’t see what I am being shown.
I painted this in 2007 and when turned up a different way I could see a monk/priest down on the ground offering prayers, whilst on his back sits a beautiful bird. At that time this little bird, a thrush would come to visit. During this period I was working from home in my study, right outside the window we had placed a water feature and the little thrush would fly down to my window and sing to me, have a drink and then fly off. He/she did this on a daily basis; it was something very special and a wonderful memory.
When I looked into my painting I couldn’t see anything on the top half of this one to balance it across the page, so put it away for a time.Sometime later when I eventually took it out again to finish it I sat it on the easel a different way and saw immediately what was in it. As I looked another aspect of my being that I had been shown during a healing came to life on the page. This aspect was a mermaid and she was there as large as life connecting with the Divine Mother.
The day I saw her I was lying on the healing table in a meditative state as I looked down at my legs I saw them covered in scales that ran down the length of them to a beautiful delicate fan like tail.
I know this sounds strange but Spirit has shown me many different lives and times and tell me that all these lives are happening simultaneously. So I guess that I was not ready to see this message until a later time when I was more able to accept the possibility.
Connecting with
Divine Mother
Simply put this Indian woman is showing me/us that we need to connect our third eye to our hearts energetically. By doing this all insights presented through love will bring harmony to us.
Can you see how amazing our hearts wisdom is and how when we allow our hearts a voice in relation to this form of art the messages are limitless? As I and others have found time and time again by using this process. This doesn’t mean that this is the only process I am sure there are others, however this is the only one I have experienced.
How amazing our being to be able to bring these simple shapes into an incredible image on the page.
This is what I love about this form of art, all is being directed without you realising what is taking place.
Because you are simply Allowing!
Connecting Third Eye & Heart
This painting is a healing, teaching painting with many aspects. From the outset I decided I wanted to release the pain from childhood events that were holding me back and bring to myself an understanding of where I am at with my journey at this present time. For me it was a necessity to release the energy that was holding me back from achieving my goals with my life’s work.
After painting the first layer I realized I had been carrying a lot of pain from an event that happened shortly after I incarnated this time and it was now coming forward to be released. You will see that one way you can see me with my head bowed and in a state of sadness and fear, with the monster looming up over me and an arm reaching forward ripping my heart out of my chest.
By turning it around the right way you can then see the “Spiritual Warrior” who has stepped forward now after the release of the fear and pain. She is the gift that I have been shown I now possess as part of me. Through the pain I experienced I now have the insight to be able to help others with understanding their pain and how to rid themselves of the thing that is holding them back from enjoying a fulfilling life. The energy that has been trapped throughout these experiences has stayed with those events therefore we are not able to utilize our full capacity.
Where the bowed head is located is also the eyes and third eye position of the warrior woman which says to me that I now have the vision and insight which is the gift from the pain suffered. The blue at the mouth says that this gift can be utilized through communication of that spiritual vision. The heart that was ripped out is perched at my crown which implies to me that my heart has now been transformed to a higher level of vibration.
Incorporated in this painting is also the beautiful spirit of my spaniel Tilly who has been with me twice this lifetime, obviously as a protector and friend. I recognized that the blue and green drop which is traveling toward the portal is a tear drop; I suppose this denotes that I am missing my natural home in the stars. The colours being blue and green are communication and harmony. The star at the bottom shows itself as passion and harmony. As well as these things I see the little duck that had a gammy leg that came to me when we lived in the country, she was my pet. Then to the right of the warrior is the swan I was shown that I am. A couple of years ago I had a healing when I was very depressed and saw myself as a tiny black being on the back of a beautiful swan. The swan carried me to the edge of the lake where a beautiful female being was bending down to the water. She put her arm into the water and the swan melted into her became her. I was taken by this lady into a forest where in the clearing stood a big mirror and she told me to look into it. Following her instructions I was amazed to find that the reflection that stared back at me was this beautiful woman.
So you see that from pain comes the understanding and the release of that pain brings you the truth of how far you have come. This process is a powerful tool which can be used time and again to clear anything that is holding you back from being who you truly are.
This type of painting whilst showing us how special and unique we are and how creative we truly are is also a healing tool.
It is my PASSION to be able to teach these things to others and help them to find themselves. It is truly a privilege to be able to share what I have come to understand happens with these paintings and how a person can heal them self. It is by going within communicating with their inner self and asking that aspect what it needs for you to be able to experience the healing. We need to remember that we have the answer to our healing within us.
Marnee 2005
Spiritual Warrior
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