Day 7. Love Letters.

woman with great blue heron and florals painting

“Led by Love” 8×8 oil on canvas Writer Elizabeth Gilbert has a spiritual practice called “two-way” prayer where she writes a letter to God which she often just calls Love and then writes a letter back to herself from Love.  I tried this practice months ago and it was so good, so healing that I […]

Day 2. Beginnings are Hard

splendid fairywren painting

“Splendidly Small, Brilliantly Blue” 4×4, oil on canvas Beginnings are hard because they necessarily involve loss. With the first stroke, suddenly what once held infinite possibilities now displays just one. And a completed painting, a recorded song, a finished poem is now only what it is instead of all the infinite things it could have […]

Day 8: When it Rains, it Drizzles.

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Life Is Like a Box of Pelican Paintings

30x40in, oil on canvas. [creativ_button url=”https://denisehopkinsfineart.com/product/pelicans-layers-30x40in/” icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”blue” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] The pelican above has been my arch nemesis for months. We’ve been fighting. My weapon of choice– the palette knife. His– wings that reached on and on forever. They nearly knocked me out. At first I thought the issue was the […]

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