tara

Artist's Statement

"My hope is to inspire and protect the creative spirit in all of us, fostering the courage to engage life through expression
and by creating art for evolutionary change."

~ Tara Shorey, Spring 2011

You may find me Dancing across my canvas, fasting for three days and 3 nights committing myself to a journey inside my own personal Artist Quest. Painting becomes a timeless journey. As I paint I pray and when I dance I play... Looking and listening to the dialogue that is unfolding before me asking me to be fully present.

My method of painting is soulful and a deep intuitive process. As an artist, dancer and dreamer of life I can feel and see on deep kinesthetic and visual levels. I rarely ever know what I am going to create in the beginning. To me this is the beauty and practice of being in the moment.

And such as life, just when I have a vision or a direction of where I am going next, sometimes nature comes in with it’s own rhythm changing and rearranging it’s course. What do I do with my own choreography of movement when life changes so rapidly? Do I hold onto the banks and stay at the edge of my resistance? Or do I surrender and let go only to trust in the natural flow of life. Once I allow myself to let go, there before me lies a journey where there is no time, and I will be painting for hours on end.

Trusting in the movement of my brushes and the choice of colors that are being applied, I choose to surrender and allow what wants to birth through. When I am given an opportunity and a container to create, I can look inside where I cannot hide and see the mirror’s reflection of my creative process.

This is my approach to the canvas where I can experience my own personal freedom and is a true Living Ceremony.

The colour and movement is intended to lift your spirits and take you on a textral journey. Look Closely and you may find treasures of natural beauty along the way. Keep looking and see where the paintings guide you.

There maybe a piece that speaks to you in a particular way...If so, LISTEN for they are medicine, a heARTchive of a journey taken and a dance remembered.

For a personalized piece or commission painting, you may contact the Artist.