Acrylic gold leaf & spray paint on canvas

TDF_ThePowerofThought_KirstenTodd

TDF_Clearing Ancestral Karma_KirstenTodd

Acrylic, spray paint & copper leaf on canvas

TDF_PositiveThought_KirstenTodd

TDF_Substance_KirstenTodd

Celebration of Life

ROTDF_Compassion_KirstenTodd

TheDivineFeminine_Senuality_KirstenTodd

TDF_Purity_KirstenTodd

TDF_Emergence_KirstenTodd

Original Drawing: Abundant Harvest. Food Security Meditation 
 
Size: 18x18 
 
This drawing is a creative visualization (wish) for sustainable agriculture and food security for all. My family moves around the world assisting the UN's World Food Programme with its work in lessening and trying to end world hunger, so this topic has an extra special place in my heart. 
 
The crops depicted are the world's most important staple foods worldwide. Thanks to my time in Malawi, maize (corn) is featured prominently in the center, as it is this country's most important food source and life here revolves heavily around its planting and harvest.

KristenPalana_Abundant Harvest_ Food Security Meditation_watercolor pens on Bristol vellum_18 x 18 in.

The merkaba is an ancient symbol of unity and protection and appears in spiritual traditions from many different cultures across the globe. In meditation, it can be used to connect to one's higher self and generate light and goodwill that can also be extended toward others. 
 
This drawing was made during my recent artist residency in South Africa. The blue patches on the left and right represent the Atlantic and Indian oceans. The colors were mixed with water from both. It's said that ocean water is especially unifying because of the many lands and people it comes into contact with. The patterns in this drawing represent the speakers of South Africa's 11 official languages and the landmasses depict its nature and biomes.

KristenPalana_SouthAfricanMerkaba_ HealingMeditation_watercolor pens on Bristol vellum_18 x 18 in._2023

sacred geometry. The petals are textile patterns from all corners of the world and the gaps in between are a full spectrum of human skin tones.

KristenPalana_Unity_ Earth DanceMeditation_watercolor pens on Bristol vellum_18 x 18 in._2022

This is a creative visualization of environmental sustainability. The structure is an ancient protection symbol called a triquetra. Air, sea, and land are represented as well as patterns from Asia, Africa, and Europe.

KristenPalana_The Way_ Gaia Protection Meditation_watercolor pens on Bristol vellum_18 x 18 in._2022

Kristen on Spiritual Art

American_Equilibrium- Healing Meditation

Kristen_Palana_Torus

Kristen_Palana_Mother

Vision. Sustainable Development Goals

Karen French Interview

Acrylic flow provided a dynamic background of swirling energy creating a star. The gold metallic star itself is organised matter emerging from this chaos. It's four fold nature fixes it in space and time. Gold is precious just as a wish is. The green background is neutral colour and healing. It is the colour of the spiritual heart, the place we send our heartfelt wish from. From the dark depths of space gases mix to create vibrant stars. Wish upon this golden shooting star, animated by the vibration of creative orange. Send your wish out from you heart, represented by the healing green surrounding this area of intent.

Wish - Karen L French

Within the millions of stars are symbols, much like astrological signs, that are relevant to your journey and destiny on Earth.

Within Your Stars - Karen L French

Look to the Centre of the Cross, the point of reality from where geometry unwinds. The Cross reminds us to remmebr and connect to the Centre within us, establishing our existence " I Am , Here , Now'.

Look to the Centre of the Cross - Karen L French

Sacred geometry and symbolic colours representing universal codes relevant to sacred creation and expression. Central is the trinity, the representation of different states of ‘being’ with the Heart cross where we weigh up our choices.

Sacred Creation - Karen L French

The Lyre plays the music of love. Symbolically it comprises of two Spirals, two Life Forces that connect intimately. This shape also underlies the modern heart symbol.

Lyre - Karen L FrenchPG

Get in touch with your inner child when you are creative. Enjoy it, be liberated. Playtime, fun without too much regard for precision.

Childs Play - Karen L French

Major breakthroughs in our lives allow us to move through physical ‘barriers’, bringing joy and sparkle into our lives. Spiralling out pink love from our Heart Chakra (green circle)and opening our Higher Hearts. The illusion of these barriers dissipates as a result.

Break Through - Karen L French

The eternal circle of time, of cycles, comprising of vesica pisci, which is the sacred almond like shape from which geometry and life emerges. It is the area where 'male and female' blend to create their progeny on Earth. White light of comes from the centre, the light out of which life is made. It blends into pink, blue, and purple, the colours of spiritual aspects of life. The greens, yellows and orange are physicality. The circles are enclosed by a sacred square, the boundary setting out the stage on which life acts out its cycles.

Wreath - Karen L French

Part of the portraits on aging project, some people never feel like they really "belong" here - meaning here on this planet.  EC is one such a person happy at some point to leave her "2D life" behind and move into another, greater experience in the wider wonders out there in the universe.

ED@79 Draft with water

The photo for Inner Peace was taken by Alana years ago on a retreat. She rowed across the lake to the side no one visited and lived there by herself for 48 hours, creating found object art. This photo represents that quiet and solitude for her. The bubble reminds us it was just a moment in time, even though its resonance stays with her for years to come. 
 
How does Alana work with digital collage? The process involves taking and curating photos, and collaging them using digital resizing and reformatting techniques. This generally ends up in 20+ layers to manipulate, then embellished after the collage is printed on canvas. She frequently uses glitter, heavily varnished to add shine to the bubbles without shedding. Every digital collage is available personally signed, in a limited edition of ten.

Searching for Inner Peace

Following on the "Moment in Time" series with the bubbles used in images to remind the viewer that all life is just that - a moment in time and free for us to remember or work with as we choose, Alana expands to explore the deeper issues of life (peace, love, play, joy, etc) and the contrast of each as we experience our inner and outer realities. The moment in time bubble becomes an abstract representation of the life energy depicted in the work. 
 
What is digital collage? The process involves taking and curating photos, and collaging them using digital resizing and reformatting techniques. This generally ends up in 20+ layers to manipulate, then embellished after the collage is printed on canvas. Every digital collage is available personally signed, in a limited edition of ten.

Inner and Outer Realities: Searching for Peace

Alana discusses her work and spirituality

Aham Brahmasmi, our place in the universe. Something modern life frequently requires we find for ourselves. This canvas juxtaposes St Nicholas Cathedral in Valencia where thousands come to pray each Monday with the artists more solitary practice of yoga. 
 
The process Alana uses for digital collage involves taking and curating photos, and collaging them using digital resizing and reformatting techniques. This generally ends up in 20+ layers to manipulate, then embellished after the collage is printed on canvas. She frequently uses glitter, heavily varnished to add shine to the bubbles without shedding. Embellishment lifts the eye and adds depth to the finished work which may not show in these photographs. In a limited edition of ten.

Ahum Brahmasmi: Spirtuality of Choice

Alana had this image develop in her mind as she meditated on a Sanskrit mantra, the equivalent of Unlimited Possibilities. Perhaps the verdant jungle best portrays that on our earthly landscape? In this case, that moment in time is juxtaposed on an image from the Webb telescope - thus adding the potential of space to the equation. 
 
How does Alana work with digital collage? The process involves taking and curating photos and collaging them using digital resizing and reformatting techniques. This generally ends up in 20+ layers to manipulate, then embellished after the collage is printed on canvas. She frequently uses glitter, heavily varnished to add shine to the bubbles without shedding which adds a layer of texture and depth to the finished work which will not show in the digital representation of it. Every digital collage is available personally signed, in a limited edition of ten.

Unlimited Possibilites

CM@93 -

Part of the Portraits on Aging Project, these people have been inspirational to Alana since she met them 15 years ago.  Now living in a retirement village with family all over the world many of their pictures come into them on their phone through face time, forming a rainbow of love in their lives.

GF&OF@97&95

MOC's life started hard with the loss of her mother at an early age - throughout a series of trials, she stayed strong, learning and teaching others.  Even earning her Master's degree, she not only turned her life around but leaves a great legacy for the next generations.

MOC@69 Never Stop!

Earthquake 1

Emergent Exit Observered oil on canvas 20 x 24 in _ Ozlem Yikici

Earthquake 4 Oil on Canvas 2000  Ozlem Yikici.

Earthquake 3

Earthquake 6

Spring, by the side of a waterfall. The energy of new beginnings and rejuvenations. Flowing 
ambitions and excitement as a dawn of a new day begins. Everything is an impression, and 
of what might be. Possibilities. Excitements. 
This painting was created intuitively, with no prior formed composition or final subject. 
Inspired through a very clear vision, which came to me. I was inspired to create landscapes 
depicting different seasons in watercolour paint, whilst using the same technique. To draw 
the trees, I intuitively used the back of the paintbrush to etch in the tree’s trunk and 
branches once I was happy with the colours I had blended on the page. This is part of the 
Four Seasons Collection. It is also available in print and in larger sizes.

Waterfalls in the Spring 2022 _ Ozlem Yikici

Winter Twilight is wrapped in humble beginnings. That quiet, still of the day where the 
silence reaches deep into your soul. Opening you to gratitude and appreciation of what we 
have, what we are capable of. Knowing that all-encompassing answer, that we are part of 
something bigger and far greater. In our solitude, we find bigger answers and renewed faith 
in the vast unknown, be it barren or fruitful. 
This painting was created intuitively, with no prior formed composition or final subject. 
Inspired through a very clear vision, which came to me. I was inspired to create landscapes 
depicting different seasons in watercolour paint, whilst using the same technique. To draw 
the trees, I intuitively used the back of the paintbrush to etch in the tree’s trunk and 
branches once I was happy with the colours I had blended on the page. This is part of the 
Four Seasons Collection. It is also available in print and in larger sizes.

Winter Twilight 2022  Ozlem Yikici

Summer in full bloom. The energy of endless possibilities. Where the days are extended and 
full of vibrant energy. Where we watch countless sunrises at dawn. Of humble beginnings 
and what ifs. Everything in this painting was created intuitively, with no prior formed 
composition or final subject. 
Inspired through a very clear vision, which came to me. I was inspired to create landscapes 
depicting different seasons in watercolour paint, whilst using the same technique. To draw 
the trees, I intuitively used the back of the paintbrush to etch in the tree’s trunk and 
branches once I was happy with the colours I had blended on the page. This is part of the 
Four Seasons Collection. It is also available in print and in larger sizes.

Summers Lush Green Bloom 2022 _ Ozlem Yikici

Sunrise in Autumn, a most magical experience. As harvest time approaches, the warmth of 
the summer cuddles us up in a warming blanket to reinvest the flowing energy to which we 
danced with at the height of summer. Autumn Sunrise is a moment where we reflect and 
rejoice in all we have accomplished, and we renew our vow to keep being part of the flow. 
Everything in this painting was created intuitively, with no prior formed composition or final 
subject. 
Inspired through a very clear vision, which came to me. I was inspired to create landscapes 
depicting different seasons in watercolour paint, whilst using the same technique. To draw 
the trees, I intuitively used the back of the paintbrush to etch in the tree’s trunk and 
branches once I was happy with the colours I had blended on the page. This is part of the 
Four Seasons Collection. It is also available in print and in larger sizes.

Autumn Sunrise watercolour on a6 2022 _ Ozlem Yikici

Ozlem Yikici

Whatever we call it, these artists explore the human experience and our ability to grow quiet, listen inward, express empathy, build connections, and live with compassion.

Global Collective of Spiritual Artists - Celebration of Life!