Taking the plunge into a New Series

Exciting News! I am embarking on a new series. I will be off Instagram for a little while because I find it hard to post there and focus on my painting too. I wish I could do both but when I do, it feels like my brain is trying to be in two places at once and I can’t make it work. I will update my Journal and newsletter with progress as I go.

For this series I will be looking at the archetype of the Witch and I plan to write more about this in the future. I have been experimenting with this idea for a while now with some smaller pieces and I am ready to turn it into a body of work. With my detectives series I used several dreams that featured the same characters as inspiration. This time I am using one dream only and I intend it to evolve as a kind of visual dialogue between me and the archetype of the witch. I hope that by working this way it will give me more freedom to explore ideas and images as they come up through the process.

I just finished the little 18″ x 19″ shown on the easel and today I get started on a large 30″ x 30″. I feel like a deep sea diver sat on the edge of a boat about to take the plunge – wish me luck!