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