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For the past several years I’ve been drawing and painting a series of Spirit Women. They are painted on rice paper and mounted on woven natural fiber that I’ve dyed.
These women are archetypes or prototypes of female myths and feminine energies. When I start drawing them I do not use a model or a photograph, nor do I have an image in mind. I let the brush begin painting and they materialize, often slowly, but surely.
As the series progressed, I became curious about the source of these images. Apparently they are patterns of thought and symbolic imagery that are inherited and present in our unconscious minds, often referred to as the collective unconscious.
Valerie's Statement: Inspired by chakras, Carnac brings the green light of love to all. She breaks down the boundaries and bathes everyone in spring light. Presiding over spiritual health, she helps to open ourselves to love and acceptance.
Technique: Graphite, acrylic, collage, water color on rice paper mounted on hand dyed cotton.
Dimensions: 35"H × 14"W
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Valerie's Statement: Naomi watches over the fields and harvests and brings us the nutrients of life. She mimics the health of the earth with the passing seasons. This Spirit Women heralds spring flowers as well as autumn bounty.
Technique: Graphite, acrylic, water color on rice paper mounted on hand dyed cotton.
Dimensions: 59"H × 19"W
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Valerie's Statement: Callinish is the protector. She waits in the stone circles of the past and dances in the silver moonlight. As the moon waxes and wanes she transcends time to be ever watchful of humankind.
Technique: Graphite, acrylic, water color on rice paper mounted on hand dyed cotton.
Dimensions: 60"H × 20"W
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Valerie's Statement: Holy sage of the woodlands, Oka brings land and water together to protect the continual rebirth of Mother earth. She connects the heavens and earth with the infinity of time. This spirit can be glimpsed in the horizon where the sky meets the earth.
Technique: Graphite, acrylic, collage, water color on rice paper mounted on hand dyed cotton.
Dimensions: 60"H × 20"W
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Valerie's Statement: Edith sings us to sleep on summer nights. She asks us to look at the heavens and stars and remember the cycles of the moon. With the natural cycles, she continually transforms, and is reborn every day.
Technique: Graphite, acrylic, collage, water color on rice paper mounted on hand dyed cotton.
Dimensions: 59"H × 19"W
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Valerie's Statement: This spirit woman watches over the canyons. She is a priestess of the Pueblo. She hears the echoes of the spirits that have walked in the past and will merge with the lives of the living.
Technique: Graphite, acrylic, water color on rice paper mounted on hand dyed cotton.
Dimensions: 50"H × 19"W
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Valerie's Statement: This Celtic Spirit Woman lived in a cave over looking the sea and near by marsh lands in Cornwall She sees beyond the physical realm and into the spirit that surrounds us all.
Technique: Graphite, acrylic, water color on rice paper mounted on hand dyed cotton.
Dimensions: 55"H × 19"W
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Valerie's Statement: Mary, mother of Merlin, teacher of magic and wisdom throughout the ages. She invented a symbolic language using Mandalas and meditations. The harmonizing of this language reverberates from mother to child in the inherent cycles of life.
Technique: Graphite, acrylic, water color on rice paper mounted on hand dyed cotton.
Dimensions: 59"H × 19"W
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Valerie's Statement: Gaia is mother of the universe and the definition of truth. She embodies the form of the earth and the first "Eve" of evolution.
Technique: Graphite, acrylic, water color on rice paper mounted on hand dyed cotton.
Dimensions: 48"H × 17"W
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Valerie's Statement: Cairn, guardian of life passages, awaits at the river Styx. She has miraculous powers and can make people immortal as they transform between the earth and the underworld.
Technique: Graphite, acrylic, water color on rice paper mounted on hand dyed cotton.
Dimensions: 55"H × 18"W
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Valerie's Statement: Shalotte, keeper of the lake, watches the light dancing on the water. Through this portal of spirit she ensures the earth's fertility.
Technique: Graphite, acrylic, water color on rice paper mounted on hand dyed cotton.
Dimensions: 60"H × 19"W
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Valerie's Statement: Molly, the Morningstar and goddess of love, transforms the cosmic energy of the planet. Her spirit touches all who come into contact with her lighted wings.
Technique: Graphite, acrylic, water color on rice paper mounted on hand dyed cotton.
Dimensions: 59"H × 19"W
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Valerie's Statement: Triad is the triple goddess. This trinity is found world wide as the daughter, mother, and crone. The tree of life that binds the female spirit through generations encircles all of us.
Technique: Graphite, acrylic, on canvas.
Dimensions: 90"H × 60"W
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