09/09/2025
It’s about a year and a half since I painted this and the largest I have ever undertaken.
It took great strength emotionally as it was only a few months after my father passed, including many other family members and close family friends and we were all still very numb.
This painting was to honour my parents and a particular family friend (a second mother to the four of us) who all loved flowers and at the time I received a bunch of beautiful white ones from an unexpected source in empathy.
It was clear I needed to take photos of the blossoms to keep for always…
The painting started to take shape and form and was to honour all three of them in a way that made me terrified to touch the canvas, an unused one of my father’s.
I began gently with a pencil to be sure of what I was doing and I could feel the composition start to take shape. It grew the way I’d hoped and once complete, showed the feeling I hoped for.
It was created for them but also, to heal my own heart at a time when I could not feel much joy.
It was to honour these people for having been in my life, loving and supporting me so enthusiastically through my artwork.
Recently, it occurred to me that though it was painted to represent the love for our parents,
it can also easily represent our love for each other globally and how important it is to spread that amongst us right now.
So that is what this post is about….
showing that art can heal us by showing love through the quality of the energy, mark making and colour in my painting.
My intention and desire is that by sharing this now,
love be spread between us all as the human beings that we are.
mariahelenaahlbeck.wixsite.com/healer
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