Anna-Marie Raven ~ Evoking Art Everyday

over my shoulder Sunday...

 
studio scene sunday ~ 9/18/11

hunkered down in the studio today trying to stay focused to finish all the pieces for my newest solo show that I need to install on Wednesday...

honoring the work and the process, but still marinating in the vision I experienced 11 days ago...

longing to paint it out, that experience...

patiently putting it aside for the moment, to finish the task at hand, this show which also means so much for so many reasons...

I'll share more about both very soon...in the meantime, I must get back to work...

but today, for some reason, I feel compelled to let you know that I am holding the space for you all to have a beautiful Sunday...

whatever you choose to do with it...

even if you have no choice in what you will do today...

take a moment to embrace the day...

and honor it's beauty...

and your place in it...

Peace...and love...

to you. 

 

reflexology...

 
in my studio, my feet, post-reflexology session ~ 9/7/11

I am a "foot" person...I have always been a "barefoot girl"...

happiest when my feet are free to breathe...

and touch the earth...

or the wide plank floors in my studio above the 1866 carriage house...

or when I am invited into the sacred space of another...

to experience & feel  through the sensation of touch through my feet, groundedness and understanding...

tonight I had my very first reflexology session...

The environment was gauche and the person who gave it clearly had no understanding of and/or any real connection to the work...she simply offered me a People magazine and blathered on about the minuta of her life...

nothing against Cranston, RI, but is not the type of town where one should seek a reflexology session if they truly want to experience what a proper reflexology session has to offer...in hindsight, I imagined that the experience would have been far different at a place such as The Red Mountain Resort in St. George, Utah...a place I can't wait to return to...

but I digress...

I was there, as a gift, and was determined to make the most of it...

I closed my eyes, and drowned out the noise of the salon...

and I found myself in a grassy field, laying on my belly next to a weeping willow....

...still thinking about what transpired in that field...

marinating in it all right now...

feeling a late night painting session coming on...

good medicine...

...to be continued...

stay tuned...

East Greenwich Art Festival

Busy getting ready for this show....

my artwork is featured in this video at about the 1:18 minute mark...

check it out and hope you can make it to the show tomorrow!

1408 Division Road, East Greenwich, RI  10am - 5pm on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011