Journey from old to new, 3 , Smooth Water
Smooth Water"What are your New Year's resolutions?" "Do you really want to know?"
Well, in 1993 I made some, and that resulted into a new phase in my life. That year I managed to draw three pictures, and the following years I got stuck into painting which I had never done before. So this year's resolution is to "continue with Art". The group to which I now belong do "ART' on Tuesdays. We call ourselves the Attic Artists because we do "art" in an attic.
I continued with my journey and arrived in Napier. And lucky again I stayed with another lovely couple. Time for reminiscing and looking into the future. " Looking forward and take one day at the time", that's my motto for 2007.
On the final day I visited a friend, FR. Niko, a monk at the Southern Star monastery. I asked Niko for prayers for my terminal ill nephew, Huub. He died on 21st January, age 44, content with life, happy for what he achieved, although it could have been a bit longer. "Let the energy of love flow instead of placing it in a jar and leaving it aside", was his saying. My prayer is that he is taken up into the stream of Lasting Love.
The stream of my life retiring from rough patches enters now a valley surrounded still by dense bush, but the boulders seem to be rather smooth . The wild days of the past must have smoothed away out from the broken rocks and given way to a gentle stream.
I took once a photo from the Pelorus bridge between Blenheim and Nelson. That picture is now for me an inspiration for the next painting. "Is it a bridge over troubled water?" I will see.
Therefore I called the third and last painting of my journey," Smooth water".
Well, in 1993 I made some, and that resulted into a new phase in my life. That year I managed to draw three pictures, and the following years I got stuck into painting which I had never done before. So this year's resolution is to "continue with Art". The group to which I now belong do "ART' on Tuesdays. We call ourselves the Attic Artists because we do "art" in an attic.
I continued with my journey and arrived in Napier. And lucky again I stayed with another lovely couple. Time for reminiscing and looking into the future. " Looking forward and take one day at the time", that's my motto for 2007.
On the final day I visited a friend, FR. Niko, a monk at the Southern Star monastery. I asked Niko for prayers for my terminal ill nephew, Huub. He died on 21st January, age 44, content with life, happy for what he achieved, although it could have been a bit longer. "Let the energy of love flow instead of placing it in a jar and leaving it aside", was his saying. My prayer is that he is taken up into the stream of Lasting Love.
The stream of my life retiring from rough patches enters now a valley surrounded still by dense bush, but the boulders seem to be rather smooth . The wild days of the past must have smoothed away out from the broken rocks and given way to a gentle stream.
I took once a photo from the Pelorus bridge between Blenheim and Nelson. That picture is now for me an inspiration for the next painting. "Is it a bridge over troubled water?" I will see.
Therefore I called the third and last painting of my journey," Smooth water".
John Heijnen
posted by Johannes @ 5:47 PM
1 Comments:
I like the way you use colors. Somehow these pictures were very soothing to look at.
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