HERE'S TO A STELLAR NEW YEAR!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

FLOWERS OF THE CEIBO TREE BY THE RIO DE LA PLATA, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

~MAY ALL YOUR DREAMS BE RE-MEMBERED
AND COME TO GLORIOUS FRUITION~

Welcome a new year, new energy, fresh desires and more love.
Thank you all for following me on this wonderful creative path.
I am happy to bring you along.
I have just added two gallery pages and an artist's bio page.
Please view them and make a nice comment.
It is always a pleasure to hear from you.
2015 is going to be stellar!

Blessings,

Patt

ETHEREAL BUTTERFLY

WATERCOLOR AND PERMANENT INK

SEE MORE 2D MANDALAS AT THE GALLERY PAGE

RE-MEMBER WITH YOUR DREAMS

I WANT TO TAKE THIS MOMENT TO WISH EVERYONE

A HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON. 

GREETINGS FROM BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

FLOWERS FROM THE COCKSPUR CORAL TREE

THE NATIONAL TREE OF ARGENTINA

RE-MEMBER WITH YOUR DREAMS

We are a week away from 2015.  People are making resolutions, goals, plans and reviewing past desires. Just a few minutes ago while walking the streets of Buenos Aires coming back from the bakery with a package of yummy things, I smiled bright inside and out re-membering something far sweeter than the pastries in my bag.  I had one of those quick playful nudges and an AH HA moment.  "Haaa - I am living it - again."  No, not deja vu.  I was plunged into the memory and the present moment at the same time.  You see when I was 23 years old I had a life dream and I put that dream aside for many years.  Now I live it.



 TIMBO OR EARPOD TREE



In 1980 while traveling Europe with a backpack I made a statement to myself (and the Universe but people didn't use that phrase back then).  I stated that in this lifetime I wanted to live in a foreign country and learn a second language. Well as they say, "life happens" and for many years I dis-membered myself from my dream.  I had taken it out of my day to day, month to month and year to year thoughts yet my soul never forgot.  And then in 2005 at age 48 I made a major shift.

I didn't make the shift through major action.  That came later.  First I re-connected to the deepest parts of me through meditation and quiet alone time.  Soon the signals, connections, emotional and mental breakthroughs spontaneously appeared.  I ended up in Argentina on a solo five week vacation and while out west in the canyons I felt a deep core connection to the country.  I moved to Buenos Aires (the Paris of the South) in 2006 and lived here full time until 2012.  I now visit whenever possible. I speak Spanish and totally love living a European lifestyle.  I am so happy that I listened to my inner guidance and opened myself up to the synchronicities.

JACARANDA SEED PODS AND FLOWERS

JACARANDA AND TIPA FLOWERS

Can constructing or drawing mandalas help you to re-connect too?   Absolutely!   Imagine your mind as a peaceful flowing stream free of negative chatter.  How wonderful would that be?  As a therapist and teacher of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hypnotherapy I ask my students to imagine a simple garden hose.  When the spigot is off and no water is flowing out it is easy to fill the hose up with pebbles and dirt.  But when the valve is open and the water is flowing out nothing else can go in. The same is with your mind.  Turn on the spigot of creativity and of the FLOW and the entire being, body, mind and spirit experiences wonderful positive energy.  In that flowing stream lies messages just for you.  You just need to turn it on and get the dirt out of your ears.


I am setting up new international workshops for 2015.  Please email me and I will notify you when the next workshop is scheduled.  gilmore444 @ gmail.com My therapies/workshop website is BEBEST.COM  I will be posting a 2015 schedule soon.

SALUTI!





TIMBO OR EARPOD TREE

TRANSITIONING

I arrived safely to Buenos Aires on Tuesday morning and am adjusting once again.  I am out of the woods and into city life.  Here there are many parks and most are kept meticulously clean of foraging materials but yesterday I did cross through a small park where tipa trees had shed their flowers and workmen had not yet swept them away.

I think it will take me another week to get into FULL BLOOM energetically and be more in the rhythm of city life but for now here is a quickie tipa mandala.  The winds kept the heat down yesterday but it meant that I had to work fast. I am hoping for continued breeziness today and tomorrow as my air conditioning just decided to go on vacation until Thursday.  Well - one needs to be like the bamboo - FLEXIBLE.  Yes grasshoppers - be like the bamboo.  Everything is easier that way.

I am closing with this photo. In my wanderings by the Ecological Reserve I discovered that on Sunday mornings there is an outdoor meditation gathering where you can be guided while communing with nature.  I'm IN.  Come join me if you are local.  I live close by and bring sunscreen and repellant!

Back to transitioning.  NAMASTE and ENJOY!


Stay tuned.....

ART SALE TO BENEFIT PEDIATRIC CANCER

Yesterday I dropped off five framed mandalas at a gorgeous home in Needham where there will be an OPEN HOUSE on Saturday and Sunday - October 25th and 26th.  Ten artists will be showing their work.  All pieces are for sale and portions of the proceeds will go to benefit kids with cancer.

As I post this it is Saturday and the weather is fantastic.  The property is on the banks of the Charles River.  I will be heading over there this afternoon and would love to see you.  You will find me on the deck drawing in the sun.

OPEN HOUSE & ART SALE

170 WHITMAN RD

NEEDHAM, MA

SAT & SUN - OCT 25 & 26

1-4 PM

STOP BY AND SAY HELLO!

HAPPY HAPPY GREEN GREEN

Today Sr. Benito and I went to Borderland State Park to take apart the 7' Ames Mansion Mandala. The National Art Show closed yesterday.  Before de-constructing the mandala I had the good sense to check in at the state park visitor's center and ask the park's superintendent "Would you rather I left it for awhile?"  The answer was a resounding YES!  So many people have loved it and it is still in pretty good shape.  It definitely has survived well for being uncovered with a few days of rain.  The park staff will dismantle it when it gets too scruffy.  I am pleased.

This means you still have a chance to see the mandala and pick up on some of its good vibe.  The pokeweed has faded but the moss is really happy happy green green.  It would have hurt me to tear it away from its happy place right now.  And no - I did not touch up this photo.  You see it here as I shot it.  HAPPY HAPPY GREEN GREEN

The week ahead is a busy one. I will be checking in soon with some new nature art either from the out-of-doors or a sketch pad or maybe with a surprise.  Enjoy your week!!!

BUSY BEE IN A GUST OF OCTOBER WIND

Autumn is here and this year's dry weather is resulting in the leaves falling from the trees more quickly than usual.  The colored foliage will soon disappear and so will I, but just from the area.  I will fly like a snowbird from New England to South America this year.

In the coming weeks I have many original drawings and photographic prints to crop and frame. Some will come along with me for art patrons in Buenos Aires and Lima and others stay in the USA for spring shows.  I will have a full list of artwork available later in October.  OMGoodness, October is two days away!  Time will now feel like a big gust of wind whisked it away.  WOOOOOOOSH.

Onward >>>>

Posted here are a few drawings that should be framed by the middle of next week.  All renderings are 6.5 inches and perfect for an 8" x 8" frame or 8" x 10" mat.  The first mandala is aptly named Busy Bee.  If you quiet down enough you can actually hear it buzz. :)

BUSY BEE

WATER COLOR WITH COLORED AND METALLIC PERMANENT INK

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The below mandala is a spin off of the FLOWER OF LIFE traditional pattern.  I lay in many geometric guidelines then remove several to uncover the energy of each mandala.

SIX POINT STARFLOWER

COLORED AND METALLIC PERMANENT INK

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ESTRELLA DE LA SUERTE

(LUCKY STAR)

COLORED AND METALLIC PERMANENT INK

This is just a sampling.  I have a number of nature mandala photographic prints awaiting framing in the next few weeks as well.  I will be posting to the blog when they are ready.  Stay tuned...

Hasta Pronto

Paty

gilmore444   @    gmail.com

FINAL CHANCES

Last Saturday night was the opening reception of the 12th Annual Blanch Ames National Art Exhibition at the Ames Mansion on the property of Borderland State Park in Easton MA.  Oh what a splendid evening.  The artwork displayed was simply awe inspiring.  The paintings, sculpture, photography, monoprints and more demonstrated a very high caliber of talent and professionalism. The curators did an astounding job pulling it all together and I was truly impressed by how the show was hung in the library.  The music, noshes and champagne flowed and I was blessed to have some lovely friends attend.  I really do consider myself quite honored to have one of my photographs chosen to be among the 53 juried-in pieces from 432 entries spanning the nation.  My only regret is that I do not have many clear photos of the evening to share.  I was happily busy that night.

THE AMES MANSION MANDALA

SPRUCED UP WITH TEA LIGHTS AND GOLDENROD

The show ends this coming Saturday, October 4th.  The artwork will be picked up, temporary walls taken down and the Ames Mansion Mandala will be disassembled and its elements put back into nature.

I want to thank everyone for helping me gather and forage and for contributing every which way to the positive energy in Letting Nature and Art Re-Create You.

If you have not seen the show yet you have limited time (FINAL CHANCES) so don't delay.  You only have today from 11-3pm and from Tuesday to Saturday to view it (closed Monday).  Much of the artwork is for sale.  Inquire within.

 

I am very blessed indeed.  What's next?  I am packing for Buenos Aires, Argentina.  The city awaits.  But don't worry.  My mandala creation will not cease.  I am on it!