I didn’t begin painting Presence Portals™ with a plan to create a collection.

 

I was simply painting.

Playing with color. Letting things be imperfect. Following what wanted to happen on the paper instead of deciding what the finished painting needed to become.

 

And then I began noticing something.

Each painting seemed to hold a feeling.

A quality.

A place within us that I recognized.

 

Returning.

Home.

Trust.

Open Heart.

Pause.

Wonder.

Becoming.

 

I began calling them Presence Portals™ because that’s what they started to feel like to me:

Small visual invitations into different experiences of being present and connected to ourselves.

 

I don’t want to tell you what you’re supposed to see in them.

I’d rather you spend a moment with a painting and notice what happens in you.

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Where does your eye go?

What do you feel?

What does it remind you of?

What seems to soften, open, settle, or come alive?

 

Sometimes presence is something we understand.

Sometimes it’s something we practice.

And sometimes, we recognize it in color.