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Creating Refuge | Reflections on This Painting

March 2, 2016

The past few days have been challenging for me. I've been grieving paths I didn't take, paths I couldn't take. I've been feeling frustration at stuck systems. Yet each morning I have the peaceful mercy of painting. And all the while working away on this painting/commission has been a reprieve and refuge from my worries and regrets. I received such a beautiful prayer request with this painting; "Toremember that nothing is wrong with this present moment. That I am safe and resourced, whole and expansive, connected. That you and all beings would feel safe, whole and connected." I urge you to spend one breath, one moment, one hour, one day reflecting on 'Nothing is wrong with this present moment.' and see how your life is transformed before you. To see that the path that is unfolding before you is in fact more beautiful than you could have imagined.

"Creating Refuge" 60" x 36" (Acrylic on Canvas)

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This new peony inspired piece guided me to a place of feeling held. If you are gripped in anxiety, fear, or self loathing as I sometimes am....these extraordinary, beyond life size blossoms can help you find a new place of refuge.

They aren't perfect. Look closely and find the flaws. And yet see the whole and feel the impact and wow-factor.

This piece could catch me in any free fall of the racing mind or aching heart. I love the way I can get lost in the beauty and variety of the petals. 

In the final week with this piece in my studio, I listened to a retreat with Pema Chodron (check your library--there are tons of retreats with her available there). She spoke of the practice of being here, now without effort. Bringing a natural awareness to what is unfolding. Not grasping any idea (of yourself or another) too tightly. 

So as I rest in the beauty of this piece I find that my heart resonates with the blossoms--that we are not perfect and that it is amazing to be here, flawed and moving, changing, becoming and opening each day. 

"Rest in the Beauty"

60" x 48"

(c) Bronwen Mayer Henry
(Original acrylic on canvas)

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"Let the beauty we love be what we do." -Rumi

 

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