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, $430
Loud About It, 18 x 24 oil, $430
She Lets Go, 18 x 24 oil, $430
Effortlessly Open, 24 x 36 acrylic, $860, SOLD
All That Is And All That Isn’t, 30 x 48 acrylic, $1440
What’s Already Here, 40 x 30 oil and mixed media, $1200
Quiet Radiance, 24 x 48 oil, $1,150
Everything is Given, 18 x 24 oil, $430
Home Among the Trees, 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, SOLD
Carried By Light, 18 x 24 acrylic, $430
She Found Home, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Resting Into Being, 11 x 14 oil, $150
She Is Regal, 11 x 14 acrylic, $150
What She Holds On To, 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, $110
Always We Begin Again, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Back To What Was Always Mine, 11 x 14 oil, $150
She Wants More, 11 x 14 oil, $150
There’s Enough Love, 11 x 14 oil
What Doesn’t Leave, 11 x 14 oil, $150
After Everything, 11 x 14 oil, SOLD
It’s Not What I Wished It Would Be, 11 x 14 oil (unavailable for purchase)
Still She Belongs, 11 x 14 oil, $150
At the Edge of Becoming, 11 x 14 oil, $150
This Is My Body, 9 x 12 oil, $150, SOLD
What Never Leaves, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Everything Is Within, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Everything Is Here, 11 x 14 oil, $150
What She Holds On To, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Yielding To Glory, 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, $150
Emerging, 9 x 12 acrylic, $110, SOLD
Holding Space, 11 x 14 acrylic, $150, SOLD
Expanded By Love, 18 x 24 oil, $430
I Just Know, 30 x 48 acrylic, $1440
The Moment In Between, 40 x 30 acrylic, $1200
All of It Is Always Here, 18 x 24 oil (unavailable for purchase)
Out of Nothing, 18 x 24 oil, $430
She Wells Up, 18 x 24 oil, $430
Everything Belongs, 18 x 24, $430
Unspoken Terrain, 18 x 24 oil, $430
She Remembers, 18 x 24 oil, $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, SOLD
Where Love Lives, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Bearing the Slow Untangling, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Joy Finds Her, 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
She Moves On, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Returning To Herself, 11 x 14 oil, $150
What My Soul Came To Be, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Staying With Me, 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, SOLD
A Million Mercies, 11 x 14 oil, $150
She Stands, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Witness the Beauty, 11 x 14 oil, $150
She Remains, 11 x 14 oil, $150
Love Is Everywhere, 11 x 14 oil, $150
She Delights, 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, $150
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