| "Beginning""I search for Klimt!" the artist | | | | McKennitt. Then I open my heart and the |
| in me spoke spoke boldly."Ahhh, then we must | | | | fantasy art woman inside of me begins. It |
| start at the Beginning!", said the | | | | feels like a daydream, a magical adventure. |
| Wind.Pulling out oils, my canvas, poems and | | | | It is a dance and I become covered with all |
| stories from an old wooden case, turquoise, | | | | the colors seen in my oil paintings and on my |
| silver leaf and jewels thrust past the lid | | | | palette. My imagining becomes so real that |
| and met the open sky.The Wind confirmed my | | | | sometimes I can hear them breathing. It |
| journey, "Your fantasy begins now, paint | | | | isn't the realism of the brushstroke on |
| freely beautiful women goddess art "And so I | | | | watercolor paper or canvas that I capture in |
| did."Beginning" is the first oil painting I | | | | this series, ahh no. It is something less |
| did in my quest for the passions of Gustav | | | | tangible than a rendering.Have you ever met |
| Klimt. I wanted my fantasy art of exotic | | | | an accomplishment you thought you couldn't? |
| women to be full of energy and determination. | | | | Then stand back and wonder where the energy |
| Searching out the exotic meant distant | | | | came from and like lace and whispers you say, |
| foreign lands, birds not normally | | | | "Did I do that, did this come from me alone?" |
| encountered, perhaps I would come across a | | | | Sometimes feeling startled by the women and |
| magic swan? To search for Klimt meant to | | | | their presence, something imported from |
| know emotion well and not to be afraid of | | | | another time in space captures me. I pause |
| what those emotions might tell me thus far | | | | from the dance, focus my eyes and I see life. |
| unknown to science. I start my fantasy art | | | | I breath in the art of the exotic women I |
| woman paintings with music, usually Enigma; | | | | paint. It is all a dance waiting to surface. |
| Dead Can Dance or something from Loreena | | | | |