I want my paintings to be a gateway, a living bridge where energies can cross over between Sidhe and Human. But it’s not just being a conduit, it requires blending and transforming myself in the process.

It means blending with Sidhe friends to create a seed energy that opens whatever it touches to new possibilities. The energy offers the possibility of flow where things are stuck. This is a conscious blend of Sidhe and human—to offer to Gaia.

We do this work one-to-one or in a circle of conveners. I’m working on being better able to do this blending. This is joyful work, we rise up out of the same ancient human ground and see each other growing and emerging.

This my ikigai—what I love, what ignites me.

Artwork shared by Rosemary Warden in an online class by Jeremy Berg. ~ ed.