Strange meetings
— Meetings in another world
Since 2000 modern Shamanism crossed my path. This ancient spirituality goes back to a religious vision of experiencing everything as having a soul and being connected (like one found with the Celts and the native Americans). For healing and wisdom the powers of nature are invoked. Basking in the monotonous earthy sound of the drum one enters a light trance. Images of great intensity appear before my minds’ eye, that are very inspiring to put into a painting too.
I saw for instance a yellow butterfly one yard high in a landscape of dunes, while I was making a trance-journey about the element air. Or I saw how a youthful soulpart that had been lost through trauma, returned to the original owner helped by an animal.
Quick watercolour sketches were appropriate for transmitting this intensity, but also more complex acrylic paintings were devoted to these subjects.