"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).

Michael Woolcock - Artist and Webmaster

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