You Are the Beauty in the Story.
I grew up watching Bob Ross paint his “happy little clouds” and insist there were no mistakes when it came to painting. He said anyone could be a painter, even me. I was mesmerized. It was many years later, when my son started first grade, that I started to paint. It was a place of experimenting -- and discovering what might happen next. A place where surprises might surface, on the canvas, and inside of me.
I like to paint silhouettes of colorful women, the divine feminine. Women who are lost and who are found. Women who are hidden and who are seen. Women who don’t belong and belong more than ever. They can not be defined. They can not be diminished. They are no one. They are everyone.
With all of painting there is waiting. There is nothingness. And yet, something emerges. Eventually. Mercifully. Only to disappear again. Into the darkness. Until the next moment. And the next.
Art reveals that there is no arrival. Only being found over and over again.
There She Is, 18 x 24 oil (unavailable for purchase)
Loud About It, 18 x 24 oil, $430
There Is Enough, 18 x 24 oil, $430
Effortlessly Open, 24 x 36 acrylic, $860
All That Is And All That Isn’t, 30 x 48 acrylic, $1440
What’s Already Here, 30 x 40 oil, $1,200
Quiet Radiance, 24 x 48 oil, $1,150
Everything is Given, 18 x 24 oil, $430
How Pure Love Is, 18 x 24 oil, $430
All Is Given, 18 x 24 oil, $430
Falling Into Love, 24 x 30 oil, $720
Carried By Light, 18 x 24 acrylic, $430
Resting Into Being, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Regal, 11 x 14 acrylic (unavailable for purchase)
It All Counts, 11 x 14 oil, $150
It’s Time, 12 x 24 oil, $280
There Will Be A Woman Pouring Out Something Precious, 9 x 12 oil (unavailable for purchase)
There’s Enough Love, 11 x 14 oil, $150
What Doesn’t Leave, 11 x 14 oil, $150
After Everything, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Crossing The Threshold, 11 x 14 oil, $150, SOLD
It’s Not What I Wished It Would Be, 11 x 14 oil (unavailable for purchase)
At the Edge of Becoming, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Leaving the Light On, 9 x 12 oil, $150
What Comes Forward, 11 x 14 oil, $150
I’ve Got It, 11 x 14 acrylic, $150
The Long Moment, 11 x 14 acrylic, $150, SOLD
Embracing the Me I’m Discovering, 11 x 14 acrylic, $150, SOLD
Still With Me, acrylic and mixed media, $150
Standing in the Quiet, 11 x 14 acrylic, $95, SOLD
Standing Anyway, 12 x 12 acrylic and mixed media (unavailable for purchase)
Emerging, 9 x 12 acrylic, $110
Holding Space, 11 x 14 acrylic, $150, SOLD
Expanded By Love, 18 x 24 oil (unavailable for purchase)
I Just Know, 30 x 48 acrylic, $1440
The Moment In Between, 30 x 40 acrylic, $1200
All of It Is Always Here, 18 x 24 oil (unavailable for purchase)
Out of Nothing, 18 x 24 oil, $430
Everything is Grace, 18 x 24 oil, $430
Unspoken Terrain, 18 x 24 oil, $430
Everything Belongs, 18 x 24, $430
Everything is Love, 18 x 24 oil, $430
Wagering Everything, 18 x 24 oil, $430
You Never Know, 18 x 24 oil, $430
In Full Glory, 18 x 24 oil, $430
Bearing Light, 11 x 14 oil, $150
It’s the Rhythm, 11 x 14 oil (unavailable for purchase)
Still She Stands, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Things Just Kind of Happened, 11 x 14 oil, $150
There’s No Arrival, 11 x 14 oil, SOLD
Not Yet, 11 x 14 oil (unavailable for purchase)
Let There Be, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Love Is All Around, 11 x 14 oil (unavailable for purchase)
Loving the Me I’m Becoming, 11 x 14 oil, $150
It’s All Right, 11 x 14 oil, $150
She Remains, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Celebrate Good Times, 11 x 14 acrylic and mixed media (unavailable for purchase)
Weathered Gold, 12 x 12 acrylic and mixed media (unavailable for purchase)
Window Into the Divine, 11 x 14 acrylic (unavailable for purchase)
Field of Becoming, 11 x 14 acrylic and mixed media, $150
Pieced Together, 8 x 10 acrylic and mixed media, $110
Bowing Before Mystery, 12 x 36 acrylic and mixed media, $430
We must bear the grief that there is no arrival. Only being found. Over and over again.
—Shelly Tiemeyer