"Welcome to Awakening Dreams,
Contemplative Art and Poetry"
Awakening Dreams / Contemplative art and poetry
is a collection of contemplative art using oil pastels and
contemplative poetry. Most of the paintings and poetry relate to
experienced meditative and contemplative states.
I started painting in 1994 mainly as a result of the
spiritual practises I follow, which gave me an urge to do something
creative. My contemplative paintings and poetry, among other things, were the result.
My website is primarily about Personal Growth thru
spiritual practises of many kinds, but primarily thru the contemplation
of visual images. My journey has been one of finding immense grattitude
through the practise of my painting.
When I paint, I am simply trying to convey a
spiritual feeling or contemplative state. I usually do not have any idea of what the
painting will look like in shape or color prior to starting.
I simply pick a color intuitively and start
applying it to my canvas. Then when a shape appears, I build from that,
if the shape looks like a boat, then that is what it becomes.
When I feel a resonance within me of the spiritual
feeling I was trying to convey, and what I see before me on my canvas,
then I know I am finshed. This is when I feel a rush of thankfullnes or
gratitude for being able to be the vehicle for the creation of the
painting I am looking at.
The above is a summary of my contemplative painting process. It
doesn't always happen like this. However I know that my best work comes
when I follow the above process.
So why did I call my website Awakening Dreams.com?
It is the title of one of the very first paintings I ever did. So it
was an awakening of a dream of mine to be able to paint, hence the
name. Click here if you would like to view it now.
Below is a brief description of each item on the main menu above. Each item is clickable
Home Page The page you are reading right now.
Art Gallery Indexes This takes you to the 1st Art Gallery. From there you can access the other six Art Galleries.
Visual Poetry I have created 16 poems
related to some of the contemplative paintings I created. The poems were created
separetly to the paintings, but I paired them up at a later stage. View
them all here.
Contemplation This is one of the spiritual
practises I use. It is called the HU song - a sound you sing out loud
or internally to uplift yourself spiritually. There is a sample of it
you can listen to on this page.
Contact All my contact details. Address, telephone email. Nothing fancy here, just the basics.
Favourites Some of my favourite websites. Not many at the moment, more will be added over time.
Ebook An Ebook or electronic book (Windows
compatable only), of all the contemplative paintings and poetry on the site is
available for purchase for $4.95(US). Enjoy the paintings and poetry, and please send me an email with your comments or telephone me if you
feel like a chat. I wish you a good journey.
Michael Woolcock - Artist and Webmaster
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