Linda Lloyd Pitts   

WOLF MOON

 Ahh the magnificence of a Wolf Moon!  This painting came, in part, from memories of my younger days.........When I lay in the backyard in the evening and stared up at this brilliant orb in the heavens.  My fascination with the moon started very young.  Then older, in the hills and forests at night, when all is silent and the moon dominates a star flecked background.  This year the moon appeared magnified as an optical illusion occurred.  The full moon and a unique closeness to the earth (perigee) combined to create a wonderful illusion with the moon appearing 30% brighter and 14% larger.  The first full moon of 2010 was resplendent with Mars rising at the same time and emphasizing it even more.

OBIZ TREE
This Earth Tree is a reoccurring symbol in my work but never has it affected me as this one has..........This tree sprang up out of a deep, deep illness I have recently experienced

 I dreamed of a wide open land with a beautiful golden radiance.  I was able to step into this radiance!

 There was the tree standing in stately dignity....emanating an ethereal glow.

 When I stepped INTO the scene the most penetrating, all encompassing, exquisite

sense of peacefulness came over me.  It was beyond description...really.  It was the world

we all hoped for, where people, animals and all forms of life lived together in complete peace. 

 I literally stepped into peacefulness! 

And what a feeling, what a feeling!!!

VENEZUELAN WATERFALL

 I couldn't believe it.......Incredible view...as if the heavens had opened and allowed this rushing magnificent torrent of water out, only in this location, only once.

Tumbling down a Teutonic mountain.

I was transported!  In a moment I came to stand at the base of this absolutely astounding work of art from above, and in my mind’s eye I moved in the MOST tranquil setting, in which I looked up, up, up and there, in a pinpoint of a beginning as if from a cloud...a pinpoint of water, water, rushing, tumbling growing....The waterfall seemed so very imperious in its majesty and it soared and soared, if one can possibly understand something coming down as soaring.  

And I was standing there at its base.

In awe...

And in that rush of water all was obscured except those drops reaching out to me coming from the very heavens, hitting water and leap spraying out to me.... In the forest, feeling the spray, I was there.  I felt those drops from so, so far away.

 Then I stepped back slowly through the mist, not entirely wanting to leave but absolutely certain that I needed to paint this.

So I moved away and began.

SERENITY

Serenity, what an indescribable feeling.   One that escapes us when we seek it one that evades us when we need it.

Here is one serene place.  QUIET

Private.

But look!  There in the valleys of this picture...light

And again on the shore, under the trees as you step into this quiet land. Rest now.

Lie under the full moon and let the cool pieces of light fall gently on your cheek…

And rest.

AN INVITATION

In my landscapes, as in many of my paintings, I am IN the scene I am visualizing.

When I am working I am experiencing what I paint.

That is, I feel myself both part of the scene and looking at the scene.

I am standing behind that tree, in that little valley that you may see, over that hill, at the

base of a mountain, in the heart of that flower.

 I would like to invite you too, to come on in and splash around in the color and just play.

 The only requirement is that you enjoy yourself.

RAIN BLOSSOMS

Here are Rain Blossoms.

Literally.

It was rain I was standing in when this painting was born.   But not a heavy or even steady rain.

It was the light drizzle that barely kisses your cheek.

God misting the world just as I mist my plants.

I wanted to depict a very frail twig with such delicate blossoms that they would seem to fall apart if there was a strong wind.  So delicate you could barely make them out

TRANQUILITY

 It was a quiet, quiet time in the forest...

the snow drifted down as if from a giant sieve

silently

towards the puffy drifts below...The trees held out their limbs, stretching out...out...out,

into the snowy quiet scene

waiting

for their winter garments.,

A peaceful serene feeling flowed through the forest as I sat at the side of the pond, brushed away the snow on my cheek

and picked up my brush to paint....

MANDALA TREE

Mandala symbols appear everywhere

They are symbols that share a universal idea of brotherhood.  You can find a mandala in every religion, every culture-----people are drawn to them.  They are a universal symbol of a unity and a brotherhood.

They are circular and usually symmetrical, however, the ying and yang symbol are a notable exception.

Kaleidoscopes have mandalas within them.  They appear in spider webs, sun clocks, sand dollars, and religious symbols, for a few.

The commercial world abounds with them, nature abounds with them, that is one of the reasons they are so unifying............they are everywhere.

Look around and count them someday.

 This painting features an asymmetrical mandala that is a combination of symbols growing into a tree..........combined symbols growing onto a tree of brotherhood.  Look to the ground to see the symbols moving and growing into the tree mandala.

And isn't that the way the concept of 'brotherhood' spreads.