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.

 

The names and reflections I share aren’t meant to tell you what you’re supposed to see in them.

They’re simply what I recognized. 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?