Musea Call for Entry - Many Muses

Country: United States

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Motherboard
What year was this painted? : 2021
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: In the depth of her Being, nestled in the sacred space of the Cave of Roses, she is tending the fire of her soul. Up above, she knows she is held by the forces of the Universe, archetypes of Creation, who birthed her with a kiss as she made her descent through the cosmic womb. Witnesses are watching as whispers of her rebirth travel to their ears. "What is she in the process of becoming?" they wonder. The paint brushes will tell.

Country: USA

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Anthropas
What year was this painted? : 2020
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: She is made of stars... This woman is immersed within her own amniotic fluids of Codes inside an egg/womb. Illuminated with light language coding. She is boldly breaking out of her confinement while wearing her top hat and balancing on a red thread tightrope that is on fire. She becomes connected to the fire while also wearing a veil of flames as she is self-illuminating. Within her body, her star codes reveal her essence. The patterns of her DNA, potential, soul work and life lessons are all there. And her lineage is strongly represented. Reaching her right arm up to receive the creative flow, the paintbrush in her hand is like a sacred antenna-wand she uses to direct the current, to illustrate with clarity of vision, using her artist's hands. Her body is a conduit for the flow to form frequency. In her left hand, she holds a ribbon-streaming tambourine as she is reaching down to anchor in the rhythm of her heartbeat, and the energy of the earth. She moves to the beat of her own rhythms…and the clarity of what she is here to cause and create into form. The Full Moon is beaming support while reminding her of her intentions and lighting her path. The Watcher is looking within to observe a deeper perspective. Undefined orbs of possibilities and karmic agreements are in her field, awaiting activation. The fire tightrope she is balancing on is immersed in the River of Flow, where Hydra lit the flare for her to find her way after she has rebirthed herself. And this is her Medicine! She plays tambourine while dancing in the fire. Receiving inspiration, balancing on a tightwire. She is made of stars... Oh, don't you know? Knows where she came from, see's where to go. Rhythms move through her, having traveled many roads. Observing changes occurring as she receives her codes. She is made of stars... Oh, don't you know? Knows where she came from and knows where to go. She's a top-hat lady, Viking-blood-gypsy-soul. Guided by the moonlight. Singing rock-n-roll. She is made of stars... Oh, don't you know? Knows where she came from and Knows where to go. She's the One, I dreamed of. All the best parts of me. Between worlds, we travel. Painting, singing, and poetry. She is made of stars... Oh. don't you know? Knows where she came from, knows where to go! She is made of Stars... and wouldn't ya know She loves the life she's living, and she is all aglow!

Country: USA

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Codex
What year was this painted? : 2020
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: The Clockmakers Daughter She was a piece of work, and clockworks were part of her story. Never got anywhere on time. She was in her own category. Wearing magical glasses, she saw her inventions come alive. One side Visionary perspective, the other, making ideas thrive. She’d visualize concepts and ideas, and nurture them with care, By opening her heart with her own key which she carried everywhere. Her top hat was a secret portal, that she used whenever she chose. Allowing her to receive inspiration, and frequently the occasion arose. Her Father built clocks and fine cabinets, to house the moving gears. Her Mother painted and wrote poetry, for all her dearest dears. Many say, she came by it rightly, and to that most have agreed. The Clockmakers daughter was an artist. ‘Twas was in her blood indeed. She could breathe life into visions and watch as the seeds would grow. Knowing which ones to harvest, and nurture those in embryo. The Red Thread was running through her life and throughout her community. Keeping her connected and creating art, with every opportunity. She was a piece of work, and clockworks were part of her story. Never got anywhere on time. She was in her own category.

Country: Canada

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Legend 2021
What year was this painted? : 2021
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: My Legendary Self The mermaid represents my Legendary self and my place in between the cosmos above, the middle world and the other world below. Half woman and half fish, she represents the element of water yet she breaths the element of air and can be on the element of earth. She holds a magical paintbrush that has come alive with life, that she has breathed into awakening, so that she can paint what she knows is deep within her soul. She extends her paintbrush into the vastness of the cosmos, which continues back to her tail that holds the many brushes, which she loves so much. She holds the tree of life in her hands because it is her balance between the worlds and so much more. (Trees and nature mean a lot to her!) The salmon give her sacred direction and are part of her Celtic history, dna and story. The pearls she wears, represent the gifts of knowledge received in her life. The spiral in her centre represents her motherhood and honouring of the feminine. The arrow in the sky and the feathered amulet she wears as a necklace, represent the Red Tail Hawk, who remind her to discern with eyes wide open. Cindy Soper

Country: Brazil

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Color of Woman
What year was this painted? : 2019
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: I am who send the falcon to accompany you. My battle marks open the nose to the smells and impressions coming from the world. I send you signals through the crystals, shells and feathers. My function is to transmute the dark into light, the invisible into courage. You struggled a lot until you realized that not everything is in your hands to solve. Our ancestral task is bigger than the eyes can see or the hands can touch. I’m Jussara, the life giver.

Country: Brazil

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Color of Woman
What year was this painted? : 2019
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: I am the one who sees beyond the possibilities presented. I read the codes I glimpse before they get to you. I am the Cosmic Visionary who travels through the invisible threads of light, back and forth, under the ocean, at unimaginable speed. I am the messenger, crossing the air, I seek for information, comparing them. I write down and I deliver the signs, so that plans can be made from them, that will take you far beyond where you are. My messages are intense and may not be clear at first glance. Even so, I go on, as I am only the carrier, it is not my place to judge what I receive or deliver. I am Luzia.

Country: USA

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Radiance
What year was this painted? : 2020-2021
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: The motivation for this painting was to better understand my “body of work” and how I am to bring that into today’s world. Evolving from images I sketched two decades ago, which were collaged on the far left-hand side where I created a container for my work, my a/vocational energy was grounded, then flowed in multiple pathways to the right, radiating love to my “beloveds” – those women whom I am destined to guide, grow, learn, and work with. Throughout the painting are prayer dots, for my beloveds and for the world at large. At the center and top of the painting, my Soul’s eye sees, guides, and connects all elements.

Country: Canada

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Artifact
What year was this painted? : 2020
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: RETURN TO ORIGINAL PASSION By Joanna Lynn Artifact Sept. 2020 This painting is one of the two truest expressions of my whole self thus far - a self that is 18 years in the making (well lifetimes if we want to go there!). The embodiment of my core creative stream, or Original Self as I call it, has been an ongoing, deepening, experience, continually creating upon itself; from bringing me to my knees, to swimming in purity consciousness, and everything in between. Artifact is was what I considered to be the graduating class of my Colour of Woman training. It brought my expression together and informed the totality of my core passion in a deeply profound way. Here's what We say: I hold the potential of Original Creation that births from the meld of all parts of self - my truest act of creativity - ever The alchemy of acceptance that translates to the greatest love story ever told It means to be so vulnerable, to feel sooo deeply and to embody the true nature of compassion - fearlessly Because We Are - Fully. Here. Now. This leads to THE ORIGINAL PASSION OF CREATION - expressed It sparks from the wisdom of lineage healed, many voices as One It emerges from her, the very nature and core of creation It expresses in many flavours from the meld of Original being and Human The weaving of the new form of being and new platform of expression Each facet informing the other, in constant communication This weave creates clean consciousness - and we begin again with wisdom embodied Where the essence becomes form, within the breathing Tree of New Life, the new-coloured leaves dip into the river, creation sparks, back through the core, from her breath through the embodiment of her voice, and back again We breathe one another, creating upon creation Whole, upon whole, upon whole There is a passion, a fiery, undeniable, eternal passion, that wants only to create upon itself, create NEW

Country: USA

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Color of Woman : Soulfire
What year was this painted? : 2020
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: Aware of being born for this time, with complete trust in Spirit, she dives into co-creating healing paths with the others called and supported by the universe. Creative soul on fire with ideas arising from heart, nature, and Mystery, her hands flame bright, ready to manifest those ideas. Unique DNA informs her. Particle and wave energy await alchemization. She free falls into the Rio Abajo Rio, confident in Spirit's support and full of joy.

Country: USA

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Legend
What year was this painted? : 2021
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: This Legendary woman went on a quest for her own truth assisted by Spirit Bear, Mink, and Lake Superior. When she found and claimed the flaming paintbrush of truth, she realized that was not the end of the story. An encounter with the Lake Dragon educated her to alternative perspectives (relative truth) on some history. Happily she listened to the other with compassion and both expanded their understanding of truth. They may collaborate on shifting the context of others in the future. The woman's first step is to offer to share the Paintbrush of Truth and Compassion with others who are willing to do the work. Teachings I received from this painting: To communicate meaningfully you need to know your own truth. To know your own truth, you must be awake to your context. You must claim your own truth. No one can give it to you. You will not awaken others to their context or truth by bludgeoning them with your truth. To reach another, you must listen to their story (their current truth) with compassion and humility. After the other is heard, they may be ready to assess their own truth and context, and to listen to yours. THIS is the point where building a new context which supports a better future for all can begin...working together. You don't have to do it alone. You can't do it alone.

Country: United States

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Radiance
What year was this painted? : 2020
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: This painting was significant in my exploration into my Co-Created Self. Bringing awareness that in doing my work I must include all of me.. She Who Is Healed Enough.... Healed enough to know I am relevant Healed enough to know I can catalyze others Healed Enough to know I can count myself into the collective Healed Enough to know that I need only keep showing up as I am in all my facets. Healed Enough to know I Am A Radiant Diamond!

Country: United States

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: My Own IC Practice
What year was this painted? : 2020
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: When we Women create together, we are broadcasting our energy and love into the collective. Through Intentional Creavity we become one mind, one heart, one soul, one frequency!

Country: Australia

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Colour of Woman Teacher Training
What year was this painted? : 2021
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: Emerge to Radiance is the last painting I completed for Colour of Woman 2021 and I feel her name is very appropriate. In a way she embodies the changes I've been through this last year and the learning and unlearning that has taken place in every area of myself, the glow that is coming into my life and the new ways of seeing opening up for me. She represents the shift in consciousness I've undergone as well as how I see myself as an artist and teacher. To me, she represents potential.

Country: USA

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Insight
What year was this painted? : 2021
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: What a surprise it was to encounter this deeply familiar stranger hiding in the canvas of my 2021 Insight journey… an alchemist on the mission of helping me to claim what is deeply ancient and transform it into a path for the future! She wrote me a letter: Dearest Fiercely Compassionate Grandmother, Sue, You were born for this moment and this journey. Like the roots of the Tree of Life which shelters you, the roots of your Grandmothers run so very deeply. I know you were a bit surprised that this became such a contemplative process. Your wee mystic’s hut surprised even me! I hope you’ll spend some time there, near the water, open to the inspiration of the bees, buzzing both to and from your heart. It is time like that which allowed the Grandmothers’ Manifesta to be born in the same heart that sees with the eyes of your girls. I can’t wait to see what comes from your plans ripening in the honeycomb. I know the season for gathering is coming closer and closer. You also need to know that I feel the courage in your hand raised in blessing and power and a reminder of your calling, lived along the red thread. You’ve got this. My one request is that you continue making prayer dots. As many of them as it takes to surround yourself with love on the hard days and set it loose for healing and power and hope in the world. Welcome, to your place among the Matriarchs. We’ve been waiting for you! Love, Our Lady of the Dark Mysteries

Country: United States

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Motherboard - Mystic Voyager Painting
What year was this painted? : Dec 2020 - March 2021
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: In the midst of the Pandemic, a profound shift in my perception occurred. Awareness of patterns, a desire to break free of old constructs needing liberation, was presented to me through witnessings hundreds of starlings that filled the sky one special day. In honor of natural forces, called murmurations, created by hundreds of birds I could see how to shapeshift the gem of who I am. The desire to create beauty within my community, together in co-creation, I saw how the world could change.

Country: USA

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: The Black Madonna
What year was this painted? : Original: 2017 and repainted in 2020
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: Many years ago and over a period of time, while driving to work in the downtown area of Los Angeles, I watched the Black Madonna living under a lamppost on Bixel Street. She was strong and fearless, and I was curious about her history, but I was too afraid to speak to her. Her home was a ragged silver tent with the moonlight shining through onto her ebony skin. She greeted each morning with outstretched arms and birds at her feet. She had matted dark hair wrapped in a bright yellow turban and a gossamer scarf embellished with memories of her past. She was cloaked in a gown of swirling yellow, orange and green, the soft cloth caress her velvety black skin. She leaned against the fence that locked her out and strolled the street that she called her home. She was the purveyor of a manicured universe and elegance amid littered trash and broken glass. In the evening with time to spare, she spoke to the invisible multitudes in low whispers. I wondered what guarded secrets she shared. I watched from afar as she met each day with a yawn and a smile. She dressed like a hostess awaiting her guest. She became my muse, the fixed object of my fascination. I watched the Black Madonna survive the terrors of the night, while I, on the brink of madness, closed the door to my world, while the business suit crumbled. Yearning to hear her truth, I approached her timidly one morning, and her story unfolded. She, with a proud stance and a noble face, responded: My children are dead and so are my parents. They were killed. I was an accountant But now I am the Queen of Egypt. Soon I’ll return to my country and reign over my subjects, the camels. It took me a number of years to heal my mind, but I knew I would survive because the Black Madonna had spoken, and through her eyes, I saw the possibility of myself dwelling in the same dark abyss. Finally, the day arrived when I noticed the moon rising over the mountains, and all the beauty it contained on a dark summer night, and I saw the Black Madonna known as Julia , my muse, become the Notre Dame de Bonne. I want to clarify that I did not see Julia as the Mother Mary in guise of The Black Madonna, but rather I witnessed her strength and determination to survive amid the dangers of the street. In her, I saw Mother Mary’s strength and love of nature. My painting is a reflection of Julia’s beauty, much like Our Black Madonna, Mary.

Country: USA

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Wisdom Table
What year was this painted? : 2019-20
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: When I started this painting, I had no idea where it would lead me. As soon as I painted the background color, the woman in the green dress appeared, and she is a representation of myself as a young woman. I didn't know who I was, and sadly didn't recognize my strength and potential for creativity. The embryo is symbolic of rebirthing, and the nautilus represents the stages each one of us passes through life. The lady is the red dress is Mother Mary as she has been with me since childhood, and she has been my protector as evidenced by the embrace of the young child. The lady in blue is my guardian angel who is always present in my life. She is my guide and protector. She always makes herself present with the appearance of a feather. The swan appeared in a dream, and I held on to its neck and we flew viewing the landscape of my life. The rabbit and hare also came to me in a dream, and I chose to show them playing, and the smoky blue color represents my subconscious mind. The women in the background represent my ancestors--my mother and aunts who were my teachers. I also chose to cut the lineage of ancestral superstitions and abuse. The celestial stars and the blue sky represent my spirituality. The symbology shown in the painting is about transformation, strength and guidance.

Country: United Kingdom

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: Legend
What year was this painted? : 2021
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: I AM She who Carries Soul Fire   The flame of truth The alchemical fire that cleanses, purifies, and transforms I am here to remind you of all that you are To reignite your awareness To illuminate your consciousness To fan your flames   I AM the light I AM the dark Order and Chaos The Spark and the Void of Creation I hold it all   I AM Infinite I AM Finite This juxtaposition of truths is necessary for the soul to experience itself With the goal of returning Home Returning to Union Reliving Wholeness   I AM the Lotus Pure Beauty And like the lotus I am able to grow and shine during time of challenge and transform limitations and trauma into fuel for growth and increased compassion and unconditional love.   I AM the Phoenix Pure Power And like the phoenix I possess the ability to transform and rise from the ashes of my former selves. It is no mistake that I have been a daughter, student, soldier, mother, wife, and more in this incarnation.   The path of the wayshowers is one of transformation and rebirth It is one of possibility and of promise It requires courage and an open heart I AM Ready   I SHINE Part of my final journaling from this painting was this message: I am not coming home. I am home. I am home with a deeper appreciation of who I am and an increased awareness of what I am called to do in my life. The message has been so consistent. It has grown louder and stronger the past few years. I am a lightbearer, a wayshower, a pathfinder, and a trailblazer. I am here to shine. I am here to seek out the experiences that illuminate my soul and allow the Holy Yes to rise up in my being. I am here to be passionate and know that my passion can ignite other to follow their passions – to find their Holy Yes and allow themselves to be moved by their on divine spark and internal compass. Knowing that by doing this, they will be able to transform their lives and live their divine purpose. It is that simple. And it is that complex.   The most fearsome creature in all the world is a woman on fire with purpose. It is time to reclaim her fire. This is the constant message that Legend has held for me. This is the constant singularity within the whole of the painting.   And this Legendary journey is not over… it only just re-beginning.   I then heard: You do not have to change everything at once. Stay on the path you are on, for it is the correct one and all will reveal itself in time. Keep showing up and doing what you are called to do. Pursue the Holy Yes and the rest will follow. You know this. You are used to seeing the entire path – it is one of your superpowers. Right now, you are at threshold where many options seem to be present, but do not fear for you are also a point where no matter which direction you move, you will be led to the truth of your destiny. This the time where all roads do lead to Rome. The choice of how you travel is up to you. There are easy ways and there are more challenging ways, but you are being brought to the people and places where your destiny lies. And yes, that does include love and partnership. Now is the time. Things have been set in motion that cannot and will not be reversed. There is too much at stake for the future of humanity and the Earth for things to not come together. The time is now. The work is being done. Union and Soul Truth will not be denied. Follow your passion in order to experience the gentler form of transformation. For those that choose to fight against it or deny it, the process will be much harder to move through this portal – to cross this threshold between what was and what will be. Things are on the verge of rapid and significant transition. Follow the Holy Yes. Anchor the Holy Yes. Shine your Light. Stand for truth. Stand for created destiny. Stand for chosen initiation and rebirth of self. The time is now.

Country: US

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: New Year Intention class
What year was this painted? : 2020
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: "Sit down," she ordered. Thrusting a leather quiver full of arrows into my hands she said, "Take these, you will need them." The arrows appeared to be made of light. "But...but what of my six New Year intentions?" I asked. "Oh," she said and touching them they grew, flowered and dried into pods within a moment. "Later," she dismissed them with a flick of her wrist. Another seed pod, not one of my six burst opened and bloomed. "Close your mouth," she said. "Know that beautiful and dangerous things will fly out of the night." Gesturing to the green Luna moths that fluttered towards me. "Have you ever seen one of these?" she asked. "Not in life." I replied. "Do you know why?" she asked. "Once there was once a green worm with a black hook on its head. That worm ate tomatoes plants. They had done so for many ages, but you," she flicked her hand at me and the watching crowd, "decided to get rid of them." "Enjoy your tomatoes," she said over her shoulder as she disappeared into the future.

Country: United States

What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?: it is from teaching a Legend class with Uma Joy called Awakening our Mythic story
What year was this painted? : 2021
Share with us the STORY of you painting to give context to the work and what it means to you! This can be a poem or a few paragraphs: ......Be the ‘WILD GYPSY SOUL and dance.. Dance with the elements, dance with the Trees, dance with animals and beings of the earth plane and allow yourself to sing with the hummingbirds, eagles and songbirds. Dance with Mato bear as she invites you into the dark cave of Knowing. She is always with you as a protector, guide and companion. Share the sweet music of your heart with all beings and feel the love coming back to you. Run with the wolves, gallop with ponies, leap like the antelope and feel your hoofs touch the earth as you are carried forward into the legendary life you have called forth...... ( a portion of Her message)