Alex & Allyson Grey Tour- Australia

I have been invited to participate in the Art Exhibition at the Alex and Allyson Grey Event to be held at the Astor Theatre in St.Kilda on the 29th January 2011.
My works have been in 2 group shows alongside Alex Grey's work at the Brave Destiny Exhibition at the WAH center in Brooklyn New York and the Fantastic and Visionary Art Tour in Australia. 
I am so excited that they are coming to Australia and to exhibit along side them on my old home turf, is such an honor, I cant wait!

AGM Tours & PBS will be presenting Alex and Allyson with a Live Painting Performance, Art Exhibition, Multimedia, Interactive Discussion, Projections and Visuals and Live DJ's. 

Alex Grey is best known for his paintings, which portray multiple dimensions of reality, interweaving biological anatomy with psychic and spiritual energies. Grey’s visual meditation on the nature of life and consciousness, the subject of his art, is contained in five books. His two monographs, Sacred Mirrors and Transfigurations, follow the history of Grey’s artistic life. The Mission of Art and Art Psalms reflect on art as a spiritual practice.The book, CoSM, co-authored with Allyson Grey, provides a guided tour of the New York City installation of the Sacred Mirrors collection. Grey’s world renowned career includes exhibitions and keynote addresses from Basel to Tokyo to Sao Paulo, and features on the Discovery Channel, the CBC, in Newsweek andTime magazines. Grey’s art has been used on albums for the multi-platinum bands Nirvana, Beastie Boys, Tool, and String Cheese Incident. Grey’s most outstanding and widely appreciated works of transformative art were exhibited for five years in the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in NewYork City. More info at beinart.org...

Alex Grey.com and CoSM.org

Alex and Allyson Grey (CoSM) will also be participating at the Rainbow Serpent Festival 21 - 24th January 2011.

CoSM Space

During the course of the festival, renowned U.S. artists Alex Grey and his wife Allyson Grey will showcase their radiant portfolio of visionary artwork in a special area of the Arts & Lifestyle Village. Best known for their paintings, which portray multiple dimensions of reality, interweaving biological anatomy with psychic and spiritual energies the Greys will present an inspiring and luminous live painting experience, allowing the Rainbow community to enter into their visionary realm of consciousness. There will also be special opportunities to interact with Alex and Allyson through a series of inspirational workshops and talks held at the Arts & Lifestyle Village.

Women Who Run with the Wolves

There are many, many, many books that I love, but this is one of my favorites.
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
My copy, bought years ago, is so dog-eared, stained and wrinkled, it lives on my bedside table and has been read and re-read so many times. Each time I feel I am re-connecting with something very old and true. It is not a self help book, it is a rich tome that connects us with poetry, story, spirit, the underworld, and the deep inner life. You could call it a medicine book for women and men. 


Estés described her method of healing to writer Isabella Wylde. "I come from the Curanderisma healing tradition from Mexico and Central America. In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine. The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things, of course, can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing and to bring it back to consciousness again. For some people that may sound mystical . . . and it is!"
To read the full interview with Dr. Estes by Isabella Wylde click here.

Archetypal Natural History

Creating these 4 'works' from elements in my existing drawings, I wanted to play with the idea that my drawings could be catalogued, dissected and documented like  'archetypal natural history' plates. They are a set of small screen prints.

From 'Cycle of the Moon'

From 'Cycle of the Moon' (above)

From 'Owl and Fox'

From 'Tigerlion'

Drawing to colour

Here, I worked on a drawing of mine called Spirit Mask, creating a colour version of it in photoshop.

Original

Colour version

Detail