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
Available in person at 403-870-0591

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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
Available in person at 403-870-0591

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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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If You Were Painting This . . .

Much love the blessings of sunlight through trees on a summer day. Feels such a guiding source while walking under branches and through shadows.

As the canvas is painted, there’s a bright cloudless day above the tree tops and a cool darkness flowing around the trunks. Sunshine splashes through in places as sunshine does.

In my heart this sunlight warms and spreads to spill out onto the canvas. Some may look at the canvas and say the light is simply interpretation. But for me, feelings brought the colours and there is a blessing in this.

If you were painting this canvas would the image be different? What would source your feelings? Perhaps the shadows?

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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Daisy Spirit

Been trying to decide if the spirit of the daisy flower is in the dramatic radiating petals or the defined yellow button at the centre. What’s your feeling?

Painting them only makes the question more compelling. Then, perhaps, it is more about wondering about spirit than questioning. Is an answer that important?

These daisies grow in a garden behind my house. They stand robust in the breeze. Sunlight and shade play with them all day. And on a clear night the moon lightly touches them.

Feeling the spirit of the daisies is what matters.

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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A Moment Last Evening

An evening walk after painting most of the day is always welcome. Cooler air and sunlight filtered by the ebbing energies of the day bring comfort. Sometimes the moon joins me, as happened this evening, and the moment touches me deeply.

As I listen I know my soul wants a painting to happen. It never tells me why.

How often do we respond to our soul this way?

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Out In The Back Pasture

Love the feelings in this painting. Cattle in a pasture take me back decades to growing up on the farm. That’s why I painted it: for the sense of having been there before and a feeling on comfort from this. Cattle do that to me as much as pasture and the trees. And that one cow looking back at me as if to say, “Oh, it’s you again. Where you been?”

Is the painting like this for you? Or do you have other feelings?