Seeking to Capture Beauty with Watercolor
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Trauma to Inscendence: A Memoir and More
Trauma to Inscendence: A Memoir and Reflections Mary C. Coelho, PhD, September 2024At the memorial service of a friend the family gave us a small booklet that had some photographs and stories about her life. It was a pleasure to learn more about her as I had known her...
Gate to the Garden
Click image above to view in full screenThis open gate to a garden invites us to awaken to the full spiritual identity of the person and other earth beings, the intrinsic creativity of our person and world and to the beauty and unbelievable diversity of the natural...
Belonging
Click image above to view in full screenThis painting Belonging, expresses my joy as I came to know, both by understanding and by spiritual experience, that I fully belong integral to the sacred earth. Human experience over the centuries and understandings of our...
The Great Red Oak
Click image above to view in full screenThis magnificent 500-year-old red oak stood until recently on the bank of the Hudson River across from the 200-million-year-old geological formation known as the Palisade escarpment. The tree was in the yard of the house where...
Everything Has a Within
Click image above to view in full screenScientists have discovered, most unexpectedly, what we call matter, the stuff of which we and the earth are made, is 99.99% nonvisible. Sir James Jeans, the British physicist and mathematician, suggested that we think of the...
The Unfading Light
Click image above to view in full screenThe pathway in the woods is an image that invites us to the search to know the interior Light. The interior Light is not visible in the painting nor is it ever visible to us but it is experienced internally within and around us....
The Magnificent Cosmos
Click image above to view in full screenIn the background of this painting is the Hubble deep field that became visible for the first time in a most remarkable photograph taken of outer space by the Hubble telescope. The telescope, with the lens open for an extended...