You Are the Beauty in the Story.

I grew up watching Bob Ross paint his “happy little clouds” and insist there were no mistakes when it came to painting. He said anyone could be a painter, even me. I was mesmerized. It was many years later, when my son started first grade, that I started to paint. It was a place of experimenting -- and discovering what might happen next. A place where surprises might surface, on the canvas, and inside of me.

I like to paint silhouettes of colorful women, the divine feminine. Women who are lost and who are found. Women who are hidden and who are seen.  Women who don’t belong and belong more than ever. They can not be defined.  They can not be diminished.  They are no one. They are everyone. 

With all of painting there is waiting.  There is nothingness.  And yet, something emerges.  Eventually.  Mercifully.  Only to disappear again.  Into the darkness.  Until the next moment.  And the next.  

Art reveals that there is no arrival. Only being found over and over again. 

 

There She Is, 18 x 24 oil (unavailable for purchase)

Loud About It, 18 x 24 oil, $430

There Is Enough, 18 x 24 oil, $430

Effortlessly Open, 24 x 36 acrylic, $860

All That Is And All That Isn’t, 30 x 48 acrylic, $1440

What’s Already Here, 30 x 40 oil, $1,200

Let There Be, 18 x 24 oil, $430

All Is Given, 18 x 24 oil, $430

There’s Enough Love, 18 x 24 oil, $430

Carried By Light, 18 x 24 acrylic, $430

Resting Into Being, 11 x 14 oil, $150

Regal, 11 x 14 acrylic (unavailable for purchase)

It All Counts, 11 x 14 oil, $150

It’s Time, 12 x 24 oil, $280

What Doesn’t Leave, 11 x 14 oil, $150

After Everything, 11 x 14 oil, $150

Crossing The Threshold, 11 x 14 oil, $150

It’s Not What I Wished It Would Be, 11 x 14 oil (unavailable for purchase)

Leaving the Light On, 9 x 12 oil, $150

I’ve Got It, 11 x 14 acrylic, $150

What Comes Forward, 11 x 14 acrylic, $150

The Long Moment, 11 x 14 acrylic, $150

Embrace Unconventional, 11 x 14 acrylic, $150

Just Passing The Time, 11 x 14 acrylic, $150

Still With Me, 11 x 14 acrylic and mixed media, $150

Where I Am, 11 x 14 acrylic, $95

Walk This Way, 11 x 14 acrylic, $95

In Plain Sight, 12 x 12 acrylic and mixed media (not available for purchase)

Emerging, 9 x 12 acrylic, $110

Holding Space, 12 x 12 acrylic, $95

 

Expanded By Love, 18 x 24 oil (unavailable for purchase)

I Just Know, 30 x 48 acrylic, $1440

The Moment In Between, 30 x 40 acrylic, $1200

All of It Is Always Here, 18 x 24 oil (unavailable for purchase)

Out of Nothing, 18 x 24 oil, $430

Everything is Grace, 18 x 24 oil, $430

Everything is Love, 18 x 24 oil, $430

Everything Belongs, 11 x 14 oil (unavailable for purchase)

It’s the Rhythm, 11 x 14 oil (unavailable for purchase)

You Never Know, 11 x 14 oil, $150

Still She Stands, 11 x 14 oil, $150

Things Just Kind of Happened, 11 x 14 acrylic, $150

There’s No Arrival, 11 x 14 oil (unavailable for purchase)

Not Yet, 11 x 14 oil (unavailable for purchase)

Layered, 11 x 14 oil, $150

Love Is All Around, 11 x 14 oil (unavailable for purchase)

Loving the Me I’m Becoming, 11 x 14 oil

It’s All Right, 11 x 14 oil, $150

Everything Is Given, 11 x 14 oil, $150

She Remains, 11 x 14 oil, $150

Get Your Groove, 11 x 14 acrylic and mixed media (unavailable for purchase)

Blooming, 12 x 12 acrylic and mixed media (unavailable for purchase)

It’s All Right, 11 x 14 acrylic (unavailable for purchase)

Now You See Me, 11 x 14 acrylic and mixed media, $150

Standing With Myself, 11 x 14 acrylic, $95

Pieced Together, 8 x 10 acrylic and mixed media, $110

Bowing Before Mystery, 12 x 36 acrylic and mixed media, $430

We must bear the grief that there is no arrival. Only being found. Over and over again.

—Shelly Tiemeyer