Spiritual Art Blog - *Ed P

I wasn’t happy with the fountain I had in the Sacred City piece last week. While contemplating on it I was shown a golden fountain much like the one here. It does do it more justice as this is the fountain of youth. It is where those who have a lot of work and a long time to spend on the physical plane come to revitalise their physical bodies.
This is just the raw render from the 3D program. It has yet to be embellished.

Helping your guardian Angel or Inner Guide.

Thought for the Week -

Have you ever thought of helping your guardian Angel or Inner Guide?

I don’t have any recall of ever being told “Do this” or “Do that”. I think we are given opportunities to give love or give service to others as we go through life.

Last week I was going through a shopping centre on my way to meet my friends in about ten minutes. I passed a crying child of about seven years old. I looked back at the little boy and saw he was getting distressed.

I decided that I had enough time to help this child. I asked him what was wrong “I can’t find my Mom”. Where was she last “She was in this shop but she’s gone”. I told him I’d try and help him find his mother. We went down past a few shops and asked one of the store security guys to help. He very skilfully chatted with the boy and went off in the direction we had come from to search for the child’s mother. The security guy assured me they would be able to reunite the child with his mother.

Was that situation presented to me by my Inner Guide or was it a coincidence? I don’t believe in coincidences, so this situation was put in my path, to see if I was as caring a person as I’d sometimes like to think I am. I may have passed the test, this time, but what about helping that woman on to the bus, or leaving room for the car to pull out in front, or keeping my mouth shut when I have the words to cut a person’s argument in shreds?

There are certainly enough opportunities to use love rather than power but it’s not easy to make the right choice. By doing these services of love, are we really doing something for our Inner Guide or Guardian Angel? If we do perform the service, we are the ones who benefit. We get the love flowing through us, we get the good karma and we get closer to heaven.

So by helping our Guardian Angel or Inner Guide we are really helping ourselves. It’s a win win situation for everyone involved.

News:

Gorey Holistic Fair

Next Sunday 7th September, I’ll be showing my work at the Holistic Health Fair in the Amber Springs Hotel, Gorey, Co. Wexford. It’ll start around 11.00 am and run until about 6.00 pm. If you are in the area drop in and say hello.

Inspirational Quote:

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

Sophia Loren

Spirals

September 30, 2007 |

This is a picture I finished just in time for the St Stephen’s Green exhibition. Its original title was Tapestry. I was hoping to show how our relationships create a tapestry as we go through life but that’s not how how it turned out. It does represent a reasonably accurate representation of the image I saw when it crossed my mind but it doesn’t look like a tapestry. I’ve had the tapestry ides in my head for a few years but haven’t got into a visual format yet… some day.

So the title on this piece is Spirals and here’s my description of it.

We enter life through the swirling vortex and spin around it experiencing our lives. There are lots of others with us in this vortex creating spirals as we go through life. Eventually we gin the wisdom and strength to break out.

St. Stephen’s Green exhibition in Dublin

The following 3 post have been taken from my previous self hosted blog. I've decided to use Type Pad as my blog software as my previous option was a bit too inflexible.

September 26, 2007 |

Last weekend over 100 artists hung their paintings on the railings surrounding St. Stephens Green in Dublin, Ireland and I was one of them. Thankfully it was quiet pleasent weather wise with only a few short showers of rain on Sunday. Saturday was bright and sunny and Firday was wet in the morning but in the afternoon it stayed dry.

I sold 3 pieces over the weekend. The first was to a Lady named Misty, from Denver, Colorado who told me it was the first piece of art she had ever bought. What a compliment and which did she buy, you guessed it, Outside the Box. The other two pieces were Sacred Place and River of God.

Finally Outside the Box

September 18, 2007 |

Well I finished Outside the Box, that is adding in all the detail. I kept a log of the time spent on it, about 40 hours. I’m trying to work faster but another picture I’m working on which I thought would be done quicker is heading for the 40 hour mark too. I’ll just have to give up working and do the pictures all the time, that way I’ll get more done.

Click on the image and you’ll see a larger version but be aware that you’ll have to use your BACK button to return to this page. More stuff I have to figure out for the blog.

I’d like to hear your comments on this piece just to get a feel for how you view it. What do you get from it, what’s the story in there if there is one and do you like it? Would you hang it in your home or office or throw it in the bin?

I hope to have it on show this weekend on St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin. This is an outdoor exhibition where artists are allowed hang and sell pictures on the railings of St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland. It’s the cheapest exhibition space I know of, at just €20 for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There will be at least 100 artist showing their work and generally the quality is very good with a number of well known and established artists exhibiting there.

Outside the Box

September 10, 2007 |

Well this is my second post and hopefully you’ll see an image of the picture I’m currently working on called Outside the Box. It was inspired by the title of an open art competition sponsored by Manifesto Gallery in Waterford, here in Ireland. This is the begining of it, there is a pile of detail I want to add to it. Hopefully next week you’ll see a bit more development.

(Sorry I can’t seem to get the image onto the page at the moment, please bear with me. It’s 23.40 here and I’ve a meeting at 7.30 in the morning so I gota go to bed. Nighty night).

I think I’ve got it now…