Buongiorno Needleworking Friends and Hive Community! It is very exciting to share with you today: I am just putting the final touches to two of my favourite pair of trousers that I ever made, because they

"The audience’s applause hadn’t even ended when the police walked in! 🚨 Our director’s arrest after the final performance of ‘Rumors’ in Iran... Does art in Iran always have to come with a side of fear? 🤔"

No sé como será todo dentro de los próximos meses, no sé qué ocurrirá. Lo único claro, es que estoy disfrutando de lo que veo a mi alrededor. Estas fotografías son parte de eso, de ese momento que viví

lack of any one thing (especially something so powerful as our need to fully express ourselves!) is excellent motivation

the act of just moving created this dynamic of emptying, and this felt euphoric in certain moments

Art keeps some kind of sacred balance between all things, which modern life puts such a lot of effort into unbalancing.

The deep fulfilment of having a piece make sense, and feel harmonious, is powerful!

I've been deeply immersed this week in this garden, which I have had a 12 year relationship with...

You're very welcome to join us - today, I've been finishing this cat painting :-D

Dearest Friend, Here's a video for the final chapter of my Living In Gift transmission, which you'll also find on www.livingingift.com/six This sharing completes the course, and updates the situation -

Trusting my own Pleasure: in Knowing it by embodying it, in letting words caress and flow naturally...

Some snapshots from my Italian Arthouse studio today... days immersed in visual expansion....

Playing and expressing with colour opens a Divine Flow that aligns not just Self, but our relationship with All Things

The line of first-snow-of-the-season, the steamy smoke from the olive-processing plant, the outlining of the hills...

this energy is available and free to us all, and only needs subtle methodical releases

Particularly the deep discussions about how the world is unfolding help distract the mind from interfering with painting

I Live and Work in Gift, so tend not to 'sell' paintings now in the conventional sense.....

A beautiful group discussion and live painting extravaganza in this morning's session: looking very much forward to this afternoon's! See my Blogcast on www.whatartisfor.com for details and Jitsi meeting

A new wee painting on wood, from a bright scribbly sketch I made last week....

This is a small canvas, which I'm working on in oil paint and pencil. It has sat for a month or two, awaiting the call to work on it.... I love how the painting has a Life of its own, and will sit quietly