This is a short video about an original oil painting, Halo Of Thoughts, created in Cyprus from 2000-1, by myself. You have to go to Odysee or LBRY to view it, as WordPress doesn’t permit embedding here, and I’m no longer using Youtube.
Halo Of Thoughts marked a transition, of moving from solitude and intensive self-inquiry, into collective living and co-creating. Being additionally immersed in Cypriot and Mediterranean lifestyle, environment, Nature, sunshine, was also hugely healing and influencial on my painting practise. Just moving from a cold damp flat in north-east Scotland, to a place where effectively I could paint day and night in shorts and a vest – it was powerfully liberating.
I also worked around Paphos as a life model for artists, and visited the beach a lot, which helped me come to a whole new relationship both with comfortably inhabiting my own body, and with freeing up my energy in relationship to painting the human body.
Cyprus seemed like a land steeped in spiritual Truth… I lived up in the hills outside the city; places still very much in the old world. I did a lot of walking out into the landscape, exploring hidden shrines, caves, pools. It was such a special few years, feeling sovereign and physically free-er than ever before, and throwing off the shackles that striving in the north had impressed on me.

See my catalogue – downloadable here – for more information on this painting.
And see @clareartista on NFT Showroom for the NFT of this Artwork.
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Later today – Friday 1st October – will be our monthly Open Painting Session together – all are welcome – just bring whichever materials you love to work with!
Join us at 1600 hours, Rome, Italy time.

See this post for more info.
A direct link to the session is here.
The sessions are Gifted to you, but you are very welcome to support my work by reciprocating a Gift – see this page for how.

Blessings!
:Clare
Bonjiorno Clare,
Nathalie in North Vancouver here. It’s the first and you already had your open studio session. It’s at the same time I get my daughter Bella ready for school and missed it but I still wanted to say hello and I hope you had some nice company to paint with this morning (afternoon for you already!)
Have a great evening. My day is starting so more hours to fill it with miningful intentions. I still enjoy reading your posts.
Ciao!
Nathalie
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Dearest Nathalie! It’s wonderful to hear from you – and sorry you missed the session; I was just talking with the other women who joined this time, about possibly setting up another session or even two, on the 1st of the month – so there might well be a better time for you to join… Do keep in touch – and if the sessions get fuller, I’ll consider spreading them out and making more of them per month! Blessings to you, and I very much look forward to painting with you soon!
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