Providence- Golden Meadow painting

Title:         Providence

Size:         76x76cm (30"x30")

Medium:  Acrylic & Oils on Canvas

About this painting: Providence is a warm ethereal painting full of ghostly layers & grasses & wild carrot in tones of auburn, gold & soft pinks. The translucent layers create a mystical feeling which draws the eye in to look closer & the flowers pop with backlit light. It generates a feeling of comfort, safety & cosiness in a room interior.

‘Providence: -The care & guardianship coming from a deity. Guidance from a spiritual being bringing good’

This painting was inspired by my deep connection with intuition & some strange events which happened at the time of working on it. Throughout my life I have experienced moments of surreal calm & connection as if everything is one & a knowledge that there is more beyond ‘just us’. On many other occasions bizarre flukes of coincidence or strangeness have saved me from danger, & a few times, literally saved my life.

Now, I am not religious in any usual sense of the word. Having been brought up in a rigid ‘church’ environment, where power struggles & the egos of men wanting to control others dominated, I baulk at anything where people use faith as a path to dominance .

For me, there is definitely something beyond our own understanding, layers & parallels, mystery & otherness. I believe that every belief or faith in humanity is one & the same thing, no matter what an individual culture decides to name it. Not a reason to argue or war, more a reason to unite. Whatever you choose to call your beliefs they are all a giving over of ourselves to something higher, a knowledge that there is more than we can see or measure. I often use the terms ‘Nature’ or ‘The Universe’ as my way of expressing that veil of something beyond understanding.

This weekend, as I painted,  it happened again & just reaffirmed that I have some sort of ‘guardian Angel’ keeping me from harm. A series of odd happenings, strange coincidences & sheer luck led to discovering a really dangerous fault… a hole opening up in our main gas supply, close to the pilot light, which within days or weeks would have blown us to smithereens if all the weird stuff hadn’t happened. I won’t go into the whole story, but it was the strangest thing. So here we are, whole & hearty, no longer in danger of being blown up saved by some ‘impossible’ events & ‘a funny feeling’.

So, for me there is definitely Providence, layers of existence we can’t see or comprehend. We are never alone & we are always looked after if we just open our hearts to the good that is out there..

And as for the painting, its ghostly layers of sun dappled growth remind me to look beyond the surface.