Into the Mystic - oil painting - 36 x 48

Description: Multiple female figures lie horizontally, either elongated and resting or stretching and swimming. The background is deep emerald and ultramarine, the women's bodies are strongly lit from above.

I love water. It is my preferred home, I want to be near it, in it, under it, on it. 
I am exploring the contrast between the swimming searching flying figures and the resting, present figure at the bottom, suggesting to just surrender and accept simply being. She seems at peace. I think I am all of these figures. 

Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly
Into the mystic- Van Morrison

Other lyrics that inspired me for this piece and capture the urge and sensation of desiring to be free of constraint, either physical or symbolic.

Don't
Don't punish me for what I feel
Don't
Don't punish me for what I feel
So I crawled out of the back door
Took off all these tight clothes
Jumped into the water
So I crawled out of the back door
Took off all these tight clothes
Jumped into the water
I jumped into the water
- Ra Ra Riot- The water

Medium - Oil on Canvas

Size- 36 x 48 

Year - 2025

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From my Rebirth Artist Statement: 

I am a figurative oil painter and I make paintings about the shifting interior landscapes of women.
I paint to understand my own experience of living in a woman’s body—one that has birthed, breastfed, bled, and been shaped by pleasure, pain, loss, longing, love and change. I paint to map what feels ephemeral, difficult to express, and hard to name.
My work explores identity in constant flux and the quiet, often invisible revolutions within a woman’s life: the births and deaths of selves, the tension between agency and obligation, freedom and caregiving, invisibility and emergence. These thresholds spur us to shed, adapt and reassemble, and while we’re not always aware, they leave their imprint in the body like sediment stirred by tide, slowly settling over time.