With all eyes upon me I allow my mind to back away from the company. The pencils are poised and one girl has spread out an enormous piece of paper, I wonder how they will see me today. I have been a troll, a wizened old lady, an Amazonian warrior…mostly by accident! There is a
It began with a prickly feeling in my foot. I had been hired by a serious artist for a ‘critical piece’ (his words). He’d placed me carefully in a classical pose with one arm behind my head and on my side, very Matisse. He had high aspirations! He’d taken twenty minutes to get the pose
Unconditional Love, Unconditional Art... People often ask me about my process and one of the things I commonly respond with is that I personally, use art to explore my inner world and the way I then relate to the external. Life is really a massive journey, seemingly enforced upon us and as far as love and
The Artist earth lives in wet caress like polished drops of orange sun that slide and mould the contours of my soul you are a sculptor my breasts are clay that cry and move, your push and pull sucks me into being, thumbs press and stretch like God and water flows in open pores like
A Journey of Visual Healing Art is an extraordinarily powerful medium for personal development and emotional/physical healing. I have found some of the deepest healing has been connected to the visual sense, whether it be through creative visualisation or through sitting with a piece of art whose colour and energy triggers an emotional shift in
Mirror An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting by Arna Baartz Mirror - an exhibition by Arna Baartz - Successfully completed! Mirror ran from 22 Feb - 17 Mar 2019 Do we see each other or do we only see ourselves? Are we comparing what we see in others with a ‘perfect’ version of ourself? Is it
