Beetroot soup and Oslo

Hello gorgeous souls. I passed my cold and life energy forces came back. I have to admit that sometimes it is good to be ill to appreciate how good is to feel being alive again. It has been a good week. In spite of rain and wind today I could feel spring coming. Nature is waking up after winter dreaming. It is nearly March already and dumped Christmas trees still can be seen on Edinburgh streets. This week I am grateful for time during the weekend at home, time to paint, listen to good music, read and sleep, sitting in front of the fire, munching beetroot soup and sourdough bread made by Scott and feel present in those precise moments.
I came back to painting my deer again. Also inspired by the moment, music and memory of my trip to Oslo years ago I painted 'Oslo' watercolour. Painting during this weekend brought me lots of joy and I enjoyed so much the process of it.
Love and blessings to you all.

Hear me

Oslo

Draft

In spite of having a nasty cold this week something extremely nice and empowering happened. I have met another beautiful, wise, creative and inspiring woman in my life. I also realized how much I needed it and how important it is to share our thoughts and feelings, how important it is for women to support each other and to listen to each others inner voice. I believe that we all have our inner voice, wisdom, intuition but sometimes we just do not want to listen to it. I love to feel those invisible threads and wires of connection and understanding between people. We do live in a beautiful world but we also live in a world where people treat each other heartlessly. Sometimes I am scared we have already started to behave like machines which follow the same pattern every day - sleep and work with a few words in between to our dear ones, then playtime with our technology, entertainment/gadgets and sleep again. I do see that every day and it makes me really sad. Machines follow the pattern but people have a choice and it is good to remember about that. After meeting Sarah I felt like our invisible threads made little knots between them, I felt inspired and happy that there are people full of heart and passion in the world which I feel sometimes lonely in. That everything is the matter or perception, awareness and choice. If I would have to describe Sarah in colours and a few words, she could represent all shades or red. She is full of love, she loves knitting and she has got dreams to make the world around her a better place.

After a few days of ignoring my cold I ended up in bed, having a temperature and quite a creepy voice. I understood that I have become too machine like again recently. I did not listen to my body messages at all and then I read a beautifully written article by Jess Carlson about the relationship with our body. She wrote : 'When you love someone you listen to them. You take in their thoughts and feelings and you give them consideration when you need to do something, take an action, or make a change in your relationship. Sadly, we don’t extend this to our own bodies most of the time.'

 Jess reminded me about taking time to be with, listen to and having a good relationship with my body.

Unfinished projects, drafts, sketches

  expression of last week in watercolours. 

Awaiting

The middle of February. Edinburgh is covered with snowdrops. I can feel a slight change in the air. It is getting a bit warmer and sunnier. I cannot wait for spring. I am carrying on with painting watercolour landscapes. My mind and heart take me to the peaceful places where I can rest and patiently wait for days filled with light, warmth and sun.

Three

Where I want to be

Cold, windy and busy days and reading every day Katie Morag put me in the mood to paint watercolour landscapes. Painting landscapes from the North is a meditative process for me. It is  the way of stepping into my dreamland and also the way of putting my spirit into the mental and physical space. This is the space where I want to be. It is also great art journey to the land of serenity and colours. 

'Where I want to be'

Where you would like to be?

Scott- love and share the sound

I realised a few weeks ago that since I have started blogging I wrote posts about my family, friends and even the beeman but I was always only mentiong Scott and I have never written a post about him or dedicated to him. Scott has been one of the dearest people in my life for the last 5 years. He has been my friend, teacher and the dearest partner and companion. He has a beautiful, kind and delicate heart. He is also a very creative soul. Scott has been  passionate about music for years. Sometimes I even think that his thoughts are verbalized and expressed first through music and then words. He has recently fell in love with photography art and captured beautiful and heartwarming images. We both share our lives together and I feel very grateful and happy to step on the path of life next to him. when I am writing those words now, my love is just finishing making pineapple jam, baking sourdough bread  and playing ukelele in the meantime. ' I am just a man on a journey' this is how simply Scott describes himself on his blog which is full of beautiful music and photographs. I think, feel and know that man who is on the journey is a beautiful and wise person,  talented musician and the biggest bread baking lover who I have ever met.

I painted watercolours below very spontaneously, inspired by a moment. I wanted to capture untouchable moments of clarity, freedom, silence and peace.

Two birds (watercolour)

Silence (watercolour)

Exhibition

Hello beautiful souls. I am half way through exhibiting my art works in a public space. It has been an interesting, joyful and inspiring experience so far. I realized that exposing paintings which are really part of me is challenging and very personal. It is an act of sharing, a non verbal dialogue and connection between the painting and the viewer. It was a fantastic experience to see people stopping by to look at my art works. I try to capture and express moments of stillness, beauty, silence, memories and peace in my paintings. I really do hope that people who were looking at my art works could feel that too. It is a beautiful feeling to be able to communicate through art. I received very warm and positive feedback from people which I am very grateful for. It was also great to hear so many different views and opinions. In the result of this, I could see my art works through other people eyes. It made me aware how individual our perception is. It has been a great learning experience as well. But the most important is, it has been the best artist's date ever!
Thank you all for your big support, help and stopping by. Sending you a million thoughts of gratitude and love.

Blue

Hey beautiful souls. Welcome in January. My winter holidays are nearing their end after 3 weeks. It has been good, restful, creative and beneficial time in many ways. Originally I planned to paint as much as I could but...I focused on different activities instead. I realized that I needed to rest, clean and make space for my new dreams in the first place. I needed to make space for new inspiration and creativity to come. I have not even been completely aware of many moments when that space has started to fulfill itself naturally again. The recent walks and wanders with Scott (please have a look at his beautiful photographs, here) have inspired me to take photographs again. I have started to work on a new painting and made a portrait-sketch for it.

I played with watercolours.

I was also getting ready to my debut exhibition.

and completely fell in love with January sky...

I am glad that I trusted and listened to my inner voice to give myself a break and simply enjoy it. I am happy that it is so much easier for me now to acknowledge my needs. I am more relaxed now, my soul is joyful and nourished and creativity naturally flows in my system again.