When Trees Dance

Wandering. No agenda other than one foot in front of the other. Done this lots over the years. Love it.

Wandering leads to discovery. And discovery leads to feelings felt before but never experienced this way.

Turn a corner and the trees stand amidst elements of magic. The air is electric and unplugged. Deep shadows ebb and flow with sunlight defining nothing and everything. The music is so loud it is silent. And the trees, so filled with energy, are motionless. And the trees are dancing.

Is it time to move on? To explore some more?

[catagories Vis, Nat, Hear, Heal, Bless]

Jim Pescott
Landscape Artist: paintings sourced from the land – “I paint Alberta real estate. What can I paint for you?” Website http://www.jimpescott.com
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Allow Your Eyes To Hear

Those paintings you see on a wall in predictable square and rectangular shapes hold unpredictable stories for you. Watch each painting and allow your eyes to hear.

Yes, watch a painting rather than simply look at it. To only look is to notice that the painting exists. But to watch allows the being of the painting to be alive in the moment with you. Alive with stories for your eyes to hear.

George Bernard Shaw knew this. He said, “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” If we treat a painting like a mirror it provides only reflection. If we watch the painting, there is so much more to be understood about ourselves than a mirror reflection. provides.

Watch the painting and allow the stories to be heard. As Shaw would suggest, these are soul sources from shapes, patterns, and colours to touch us as deeply as we allow our eyes to hear.

[catagories Hear, Ther, Bless, Vis, Point]

Jim Pescott
Landscape Artist: paintings sourced from the land – “I paint Alberta real estate. What can I paint for you?” Website http://www.jimpescott.com
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A Drought Within Ourselves

A wonderful gray morning outside.

There’s rain falling. The last couple months have been near drought so the rain is touching very dry land.

Each drop seems absorbed instantly. The rain will nourish. The soil looks dry still but soon brown grass will find green colour to transform the landscape.

Art does this too. It will replenish our dryness when we stand within the energies of a piece. And in this, we are nourished.

If you have a piece of original art you cherish, go now to be with it and feel the blessings it shares with you.

If you don’t have original art you love, find some, and praise yourself for your wisdom in the process. Allow the energies of this art to rain nourishment on you.

We experience drought within ourselves at times. Art will bring us a rainstorm to quench the feelings in our heart.

Jim Pescott
Landscape Artist: paintings sourced from the land – “I paint Alberta real estate. What can I paint for you?” Website http://www.jimpescott.com
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Love The Feelings

Say it!

Use the word ‘love’ when you love a piece of art. Hear it. Recognise the feeling within and express yourself.

Yesterday an email arrived in response to a painting shared through a recent newsletter. The painting, ‘Summer Therapy’, is the one attached below and it was also featured in the previous blog.

The email writer, Sue B., simply allowed her feelings to happen as she wrote, “It wouldn’t matter what time of year it was to truly enjoy this burst of summer flowers.” And then, Sue referenced love in sharing, “I love the one red one. And the yellow spot below the flowers.”

Simple statements of enjoyment sourced on love. Not profound in knowledge but so wise in knowing oneself. Knowing that something one sees is something to love.

Art helps us express our feelings openly. If you don’t like it, that’s an honest feeling to be understood and acknowledged. If you love it, embrace this and allow the feeling to prosper.

So, “Summer Therapy’ bring you feelings?

Jim Pescott
Landscape Artist: paintings sourced from the land – “I paint Alberta real estate. What can I paint for you?” Website http://www.jimpescott.com
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Summer Therapy

Yes, warm breezes with stage lights bright sunshine and rainbows of colours. That’s an order off the menu any day it’s available. It’s called ‘summer therapy’ and it is priceless.

But summer soon slides away as autumn spills into our life. There’s a brilliant colour show but evenings are much cooler and there’s nothing like a frost in the morning to tell us the joy of wearing sandals is ending. Mother Nature simply does what it does.

Summer therapy is possible twelve months a year if you can move to a tropical place but this isn’t possible for everyone. Many of us spend a few thousand every year for maybe ten days in such places as winter rages at home.

An alternative summer therapy source is a painting of summer. Find one that speaks to you. Hang this image of summer where you will see it often. Allow yourself to walk through the summer details. Enjoy it for the endless summer feelings it brings your heart.

Summer therapy is what you allow it to be.

Jim Pescott
Landscape Artist: paintings sourced from the land – “I paint Alberta real estate. What can I paint for you?” Website http://www.jimpescott.com
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Morning Perspective

Mornings around here include quiet time in the LazyBoy temple with a coffee. Across the room, paintings brighten with early sunlight flowing through the windows.

Shadow patterns move slowly over the paintings. Reds are more intense in places and blues deeper. Yellows glow in response to the touch of sunlight. Greens seem to grow.

A painting now sparkles in places where it usually feels dark. And surface texture shares new intentions. Did the artist intend this to happen?

The morning sunlight moves down the wall as the sun moves higher. The paintings return to how they were.

Jim Pescott
Landscape Artist: paintings sourced from the land – “I paint Alberta real estate. What can I paint for you?” Website http://www.jimpescott.com
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Love What We Feel

Each of us is an expert. It’s true. We know our own feelings like no one else does and in this we are each an expert.

Yet, while knowing our feelings is one thing, accepting them is quite another. Some feelings touch us and we are comfortable. Other feelings disturb us somewhat. What about feelings we bury away?

Visual art provides a forum for the spectrum we feel. Depending on the artist, you’ll identify joy in a work as much as you’ll find sorrow. There’s light as much as there’s dark. Look at a landscape image for the feelings it brings rather than it being a representation of a place.

Art leads us safely to places to touch and explore while our experiences are real. The opportunity to embrace feelings we love is in a painting as much as the opportunity to open a door for feelings we suppress.

Subtle feelings often swim beneath the surface both in an artwork and within ourselves.

Jim Pescott
Landscape Artist: paintings sourced from the land – “I paint Alberta real estate. What can I paint for you?” Website http://www.jimpescott.com
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Should Size Matter?

Should size matter?

Hardly, the image is the soul of the creation. Canvas dimensions simply provide the surface.

The painting below is on a 12″x10″ canvas. Yes it could be on a 24″x20″ canvas or a 48″x40″ one and look very much the same. But the creation is painted on a 12″x10″ canvas and the image brings the viewer all the feelings and emotion they could possibly want.

The point of this twofold: space and affordability. A small canvas takes little space when hung. Also, a small canvas takes much less money to purchase. It is so perfect to own a small canvas if it speaks intimately to you.

The important thing is to respond to the rush of feelings you feel when a painting reaches out to touch you. And the small ones will do this just as powerfully as larger sizes. Simply feel blessed in the opportunity.

Visual art touches our soul powerfully and deeply. Listen to the painting and what it wants to tell you as you watch the image. In doing this the size of the image doesn’t matter: what matters is the quality of the experience between your heart and the painting.

Add the painting to your collection and hang it on a wall where you love to see it. The image will talk with you forever.

Jim Pescott
Landscape Artist: paintings sourced from the land – “I paint Alberta real estate. What can I paint for you?” Website http://www.jimpescott.com
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The Friendship Of A Painting

Should a circle of good friends should include an original painting or two?

If your experience is that good friends are there for us, well, this is how paintings behave when we love them. They are there for us when we need them.

Good friends help us. Original paintings do this as well, when we allow them too. Paintings bring us feelings to experience. And, yes, they talk with us if we listen. Wisdom flows.

Good friends expect nothing in return beyond our company. Same for any original painting we love. Provide them companionship and they ask for nothing.

And good friends bring charity of spirit. So do paintings. They give and give and give to us from themselves. Often when we are restless, and least open to their gifts, they offer all they have to support us.

What do you think? Should a circle of friends include an original painting or two?

Jim Pescott
Landscape Artist: paintings sourced from the land – “I paint Alberta real estate. What can I paint for you?” Website http://www.jimpescott.com
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A Peaceful Place

A peaceful place. Found one yet?

When we find one, we all appreciate a peaceful place. Somewhere that holds the nourishment of gentle, quiet energies in contrast to the everyday harried life around us. A sanctuary.

Sourcing a peaceful place physically, a retreat, is always possible as much as it can be expensive. Vacation destinations bring a short lived fix. Private real estate presents options but may be in short supply for the needs you seek.

A personal alternative is a much loved original painting that’s always there for you. It provides the nourishment of a peaceful place at much less cost.

Here’s how. Own a painting you love and hang it on a wall in a favourite room. After a harried day sit back in a comfy chair and watch the image. Wander through the brushstrokes and dream through the colours from a posture of relaxed meditative neutrality. Feel yourself literally ease away from tensions of the day amidst the intimacy of art you love.

No travel expense, no mortgage payments, and no property taxes. The painting you love is a quiet place.

Jim Pescott
Landscape Artist: paintings sourced from the land – “I paint Alberta real estate. What can I paint for you?” Website http://www.jimpescott.com
Available in person at 403-870-0591

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