In this latest series of watercolors, I am exploring the use of large-format substrates and modern floral designs. The resulting pieces are both striking and vibrant, providing a much-needed splash of color to any space. "I wanted to create something that was both modern and timeless," says Goode of the new series. "Something that would be appreciated for years to come."  Whether used as standalone pieces or part of a larger collection, these works are sure to add an element of artistry and inspiration to any space.

Pink Lotus

Pink Gerbera

Lilys are some of my favorite flowers. I love the warm subtropical rainforest that we live in. It affords such a lush array of trees, shrubs, flowers and wildlife. 
 
In this latest series of watercolors, I am exploring the use of large-format substrates and modern floral designs. The resulting pieces are both striking and vibrant, providing a much-needed splash of color to any space. "I wanted to create something that was both modern and timeless," says Goode of the new series. "Something that would be appreciated for years to come." Whether used as standalone pieces or part of a larger collection, these works are sure to add an element of artistry and inspiration to any space.

Tiger Lily

Bird of Paradise

Iris I

Blue Tulip

Iris II

I LOVE Poppies!!! I've never met a flower I didn't love. They bring such color and fragrance into our lives. I can't see or smell a flower without grinning from ear to ear. This vibrant fuchsia Poppy is an interpretation of the real thing. At the same time, the color of my subject was much more subtle; its audaciousness, strength, and level of being just demanded to be shown in something as striking and beautiful as it could. 
 
In this latest series of watercolors, I am exploring the use of large-format substrates and modern floral designs. The resulting pieces are striking and vibrant, providing a much-needed splash of color to any space. "I wanted to create something modern and timeless," says Goode of the new series. "Something that would be appreciated for years to come." Whether used as standalone pieces or part of a larger collection, these works will add an element of artistry and inspiration to any space.

Poppy

I'm attempting to stretch and challenge what can be accomplished using watercolors, inks, and other waterborne pigments and dyes. 
 
In this latest series of watercolors, I am exploring the use of large-format substrates and modern floral designs. The resulting pieces are both striking and vibrant, providing a much-needed splash of color to any space. "I wanted to create something that was both modern and timeless," says Goode of the new series. "Something that would be appreciated for years to come." Whether used as standalone pieces or part of a larger collection, these works are sure to add an element of artistry and inspiration to any space.

Water Rose

The first of my explorations into large-format watercolor. As a rule, watercolorists are limited by the size of the substrate or watercolor medium that we work on. That, and the inherent qualities of watercolor as a painting medium. 
 
Using a specialized coating, I can now create watercolor paintings of pretty much any size. While I have overcome that restriction, the nature of the medium, which is to begin drying immediately, still offers challenges and advantages. 
 
I very much enjoy the study of color, line, and tone. This piece was uninspired by an ultra close-up photograph of a lotus.

Lilly

Untitled

As a man who is in constant dialogue with the universe, I identify most closely with the Archangel Uriel. 
 
When I met my friend Matthew, he was going by the name Michael. I knew he was the personification of the Archangel and a brother in earthly form. Matthew shares many beautiful images and this one reminded me that while all around may seem bleak. Even in the darkest moments, there is beauty and serenity to be found if we can learn to see,

Sunset for Michael

In my very humble and limited opinion, God is the greatest artist. 
 
Every moment holds the opportunity for a masterpiece if you can just see it. This moment occurred a few years ago as we flew from Atlanta to London. It was as if the sky was saying, rest now, you're heading home.

Lavender Twighlight at 20,000 Feet

Almost 20 years ago, I was going through a particularly dark and transformational period in my life. I was lost, broken, alone. Successful to an extent, but also adrift. Through a series of events, I found myself at a self help seminar/workshop. There was one part of the weekend called 'The Dolphin Meditation.' In a nutshell, all the attendees lay down on the floor in a darkened room and listened to a guided meditation. Before it began, we were to ask ourselves a question, this would be the thing that we carried with us during the process. The questions I asked was this. 'Who Am I?' During the process, we began by stretching, calming our breathing, getting comfortable and closing out eyes. The room was empty other than a the guy running the thing. The meditation started with me standing on a beach, I was alone. After a few minutes, I visualized a dolphin in the distance. I swam out to meet it...

You Have Always Been Here

A Dream of Water

Silence

Aurora

Nexus

A passionate, vibrant, and modern take on a tropical sunset... 
 
I don't know if people see the hues of the world as intensely as I do, but nature's color palette is always perfect and so often violently vibrant. I try to capture the exact moment when God the Artists touch the brush to the sky and the world explodes with color.

Fire in the Sky

Liberty

There’s a perfection in being inspired to create this on Easter Sunday. A day that promises rebirth and life eternal... 
 
When I talk about God, I am talking about a personal relationship with the creative source of the universe. Not one specific deity as coined by any single faith, but literally the creator of all that is. UNITY is an attempt to share what it is that I experience during prayer and medication. This piece is not about what you see on the canvass, but about how you feel in its presence. 
 
When I talk about God, I am talking about a personal relationship with the creative source of the universe. Not one specific deity as coined by any single faith, but literally the creator of all that is. UNITY is an attempt to share what it is that I experience during prayer and medication. This piece is not about what you see on the canvass, but about how you feel in its presence.

Unity

The light of a single candle has the power to transform even the darkest of places. 
 
For me, SHINE represents hope. SHINE is a shield, it is the presence of the Archangel Uriel. Far from being weak, SHINE represents the warrior in all of us. True power is quiet, true power can be gentle, and often only felt in its ability to resist the forces that come to test it.

Shine

On one of my many trips to Mountain Light Sanctuary, just outside Asheville, NC. I awoke in the middle of a moonless night and looked out into the inky blackness. I had a question burning in my mind. What is an aura, and what am I seeing out there in the dark?... 
 
I often have spiritual dreams. So waking up with new questions is nothing unusual. This night was strange though. Most of the time, when people talk about 'auras', they think in terms of something emanating from an object or being. This was not the answer that came so clearly though. Instead of an aura emanating from something, perhaps an aura is what we see when quantum particles settle into a form and generate the appearance of an object. An aura is actually the universe slowing itself down enough so that we may interact with it. 
 
I often have spiritual dreams. So waking up with new questions is nothing unusual. This night was strange though. Most of the time, when people talk about 'auras', they think in terms of something

Halo

Portals are doorways. Connections between different places, states, energies. In Mother Earth Father Sky, I am exploring the relationship between the masculine and feminine. 
 
The inward energy of mother earth as she holds us all safe, and the expulsive outward energy of father sky, watching and seeing all things. Both separate yet inexorably linked parts of a unified whole.

Mother Earth Father Sky

Commissioned Work: 
Spirits Knob is a magic piece of land in the North Georgia Mountains on the Hiawassee River. 
 
Like most of Georgis, the land once belonged to the Cherokee nation. Driven from their home during the trail of tears, their suffering and torment are unimaginable. Yet something of them remains here, in the land, in the mountain. To be in this place as darkness falls is to stand at the crossroads of worlds. 
 
This piece shows the portal and the fire pit, which burns nightly. We also see the mantle of Chief White Smoke and the light of the spirit world.

Spirits Knob - SOLD

This piece is an unapologetic tribute to the PRIDE movement, and to each and every person who has fought and suffered just to move closer towards being seen as equal. 
 
In his groundbreaking and moving speech at the 2016 Tony Awards, Lin-Manuel Miranda spoke about the tragic massacre at the gay nightclub Pulse in Florida. One of his many points being that Love sees all color. Love sees all difference. True love as it happens is not blind. On the contrary, true love sees all things as they are and loves because of those differences, because of those attributes. True love is all-inclusive, it leaves no one behind. 
 
From the bottom of my heart, this piece is a tribute to all those who have been hurt, killed, suffered, felt shame, bigotry, fear, and the sting of injustice just because of some invented difference. 
 
I live by a simple divinely inspired code. "Love everyone. All the time. No matter what."

Love is Love

As an artist, passion is a driving force in my life. Passion can be hot, urgent, careless, and chaotic. 
 
Passion with discipline though can be a force of change. It can be determined, steadfast, unstoppable. 
 
In my life, I have danced with darker aspects of my nature and have often given in to those urges. Sex, substance abuse, food addictions, physical fitness, extreme sports. The list goes on. In an effort to come to terms with the level of passion that I experience, I have traveled the inner and outer worlds. I have pursued destruction in a plea to find the truth. 
 
While passion speaks to the physicality of sex, for me it is also about fortitude of mind and spirit and the determination to reach an end at any cost.

The Passion

While there is a balance to things, it looks much more like the constant balancing of forces than stable equilibrium, while at the same time there is a divine peace and order to be found in the chaos. 
 
There is no light without darkness and equally no darkness without light. Our shadow is something to be integrated, not afraid of. By denying our darker more base selves, we resist the sum of all that we are. To stand in the light of disclosure, to stand in the fire of truth, and to not shrink back. I am all things that it is possible for a human to be. I am loving, yet harsh, gentle yet assertive, peaceful yet passionate. It is in the divine dance of these energies that we become whole.

The Shadow

I am a hopeless romantic. I love love. The truth of it for me is that bliss love is the state of God, of the consciousness of the universe. 
 
To be in love with another is to seek knowledge of the divine. To experience the universe manifesting itself through another lens, another form, another personality. All human relationship is ultimately a search for the divine. 
 
Yet to love a person, a thing, something transient is to walk the path to oblivion. All form fails, all things change, all life dies. Yet to be in love with the creator and the creation itself. This is blissful never-ending love. The eternal is unyielding, ever-changing yet changeless. All duality is resolved in God. All questions answered and all thirsts satisfied. This love is inclusive. This love is absolute.

Divine Feminine

What is Dharma? It derives from a Sanskrit root word meaning 'to uphold or sustain'. The concept behind Dharma is anything that upholds or sustains a positive order. For example, an individual, a family, a community, a nation, and the universe all help uphold order. 
 
In Physics, we learn that energy cannot be created or destroyed. Such a physical law is one example of Dharma. Dharma is often depicted as a wheel, representing the never-ending cycles of the universe. Entropy, is the inevitable circle of creation, existence, destruction, and rebirth. This piece depicts all of the dynamic energies and frequencies at play in keeping the wheel of Dharma turning in this endless timeless universe.

Dharma

Spring in Atlanta is heaven. Everything suddenly bursts forth with passion, abandon and fertility... 
 
Seemingly overnight we got from the cold gray days of winter into an explosion of fertility and a riot of color. The grass wakes up and turns green, the tulips, daffodils, and azaleas put on their best show. The birds return and sing with everything they are worth. I'm here they say. I'm healthy, I'm full of life and looking for a mate. 
 
WOMB depicts this explosion as both a portal between winter and summer, but also more than the others, as a nod to my love of pottery. As if God himself was the artist, and mother nature the clay with which he/she crafts the creation.

Womb

The world can be noisy, and I have the dubious joy of being incredibly sensitive. 
 
Sometimes I need to shut off my senses for a while. There are few things I love more than sitting at the bottom of a pool or in the depths of a lake or ocean and just looking up at the sun's light penetrating the depths. Water is profoundly grounding. The experience of being immersed in water is akin to immersing oneself in the consciousness of the universe. 
 
Sometimes I need to shut off my senses for a while. There are few things I love more than sitting at the bottom of a pool or in the depths of a lake or ocean and just looking up at the sun's light penetrating the depths. Water is profoundly grounding. The experience of being immersed in water is akin to immersing oneself in the consciousness of the universe.

Under the Water

Metatron, the greatest of angels in Jewish myths and legends. Metatron is not a figure of the Hebrew Bible, but his name appears briefly in several passages of the Talmud. His legends are predominantly found in mystical Kabbalistic texts. He is variously identified as the Prince (or Angel) of the Presence, as Michael the archangel, or as Enoch after his bodily ascent into heaven. He is commonly described as a celestial scribe recording the sins and merits of men, as a guardian of heavenly secrets, as God’s mediator with men, as the “lesser Yahweh,” as the archetype of man, and as one “whose name is like that of his master.” The latter appellation is based on Hebrew numerology: i.e., when the consonants that constitute the names Metatron and Shaddai (Almighty) are analyzed according to preassigned numerical values, each name totals 314. Elisha ben Abuyah (flourished c. 100 CE) is said to have apostatized after having had a vision of Metatron.

Metatron's Cube

An iteration of my original work 'Love is Love', this special edition was created specifically for the Atlanta Human Rights Campaign Gala 2022. I hope the new owner loves it and that it helps raise money and awareness for Equality. 
 
In his groundbreaking and moving speech at the 2016 Tony Awards, Lin-Manuel Miranda spoke about the tragic massacre at the gay nightclub Pulse in Florida. One of his many points being that Love sees all color. Love sees all difference. True love as it happens is not blind. On the contrary, true love sees all things as they are and loves because of those differences, because of those attributes. True love is all-inclusive, it leaves no one behind. 
 
From the bottom of my heart, this piece is a tribute to all those who have been hurt, killed, suffered, felt shame, bigotry, fear, and the sting of injustice just because of some invented difference. 
 
I live by a simple divinely inspired code. "Love everyone. All the time. No matter what."

Love is Love; HRC Gala

Is there such a thing as truth, and if so, how would we define it and how would we know it? 
 
Truth and perception seem to be inexorably linked. Your experience of truth appears to be more grounded in what you believe than in the concrete actuality of a thing. In fact, lets us use concrete itself as an example. A few truths about concrete are that it is both hard and heavy. If someone drops a chunk of it on your head, then at best it is going to hurt. So that appears to be one "truth." Yet at a molecular level, the concrete which is in fact mostly space between vibrating atoms never touches your head which is also made up of similar vibrating atoms. If we were able to perceive the atomic universe with the naked eye, what we would perceive is that we are floating in an endless ocean of vibrating particles. 
 
When meditating, we understand that we are at once the observer and the observed. We are the interpretation of perception, the perception, and the ability to perceive. The very nature

Consciousness

My continuing obsession with order and geometry. This strong circular piece is an iconic statement. It depicts the unwaivering strength that it takes to deal with life and mental challenges. I am autistic and have PTSD. I have dealth with chronic anxiety for years. Sometimes it is all I can do to get through a day, others, life seems so rich, so colorful. I am deeply grateful for my unique gifts and challenges. With all of this going on, I am still blessed with the ability to create, to love, to be generous and giving and playful. The storm may be strong, but love is always stronger.

The Eye of the Storm

There's a lot going on in the world right now. Perhaps a lot to be despondent about. But here in Atlanta, spring is springing. Mother nature is waking up. We have had an abundance of rain, the leaves are lunch, the crocuses and pansies are putting on a show. Where nature blooms there is hope. Where art is created there is hope.

Verdant

The third in my planet series. My goal is to explore the relationship between ourselves and the experience of life. 
 
Life is unknown, uncontrollable, it simply is. Perhaps the only real choice we have is in how we respond to what life brings us. In the face of all its color and fury, who will we each choose to be?

The Big Bang

I have been capturing the beauty of local towns and landmarks in vibrant watercolor paintings for a few years now. After spending time traveling and living in different parts of the country, I was inspired to paint these scenes as an architectural study and to showcase the modern, vibrant feel of each place. 
 
My work has been featured in several art galleries across the country. I want my paintings to show the viewer that there is beauty everywhere, no matter where you are. I hope my paintings inspire people to explore their own backyard and see all the amazing places our country has to offer.

Reformation Brewery; Woodstock, GA

Bayou Q; Roswell, GA

Ipps; Roswell, GA

Gracious Plenty; Roswell, GA

Table and Main; Roswell, GA

Vickery Creek; Roswell, GA

Crazy Love Coffee; Roswell, GA

A collector in Houston spends her weeks in corporate America and her weekends with her 4 horses out at their farm. While life dictates the need to make a living, and she is lucky enough to work for an organization she loves, her first love will always be her amazing majestic and magical horses. Thank you for the commission Alicia.

Magic

This close up study od a dusty pink and green hydrangea was a labor of love. My collector wanted something that would remind her of her Mom, and that would also fit well with her master bedroom decor.

Dusty Hydrangea; Commissioned Work

I created this whimsical piece after a particularly trying week in corporate America. I tried to fit into that world, I did, but the truth is, I don't. Not that there is anything wrong with it, it's just that there is not a Topher-shaped hole that I fit in. 
 
We have all been there, a whole team engaged in a project, charging forwards together to accomplish something amazing, then at the last minute, the wind changes, and all of your combined efforts are for naught.

Road to Nowhere

As an adult with late diagnosed autism, I have often felt different, other, locked inside myself. I have sought distraction and protection in substances, sex and weight. 
 
To know deeply that you are not like other people but to not know why is a difficult thing. I learned to judge, assess, study and mimic the behaviours of others. I've been called sensitive even empathic. All roles I have learned to play. 
 
The cartoon nature of this piece reflects the circus clown quality of pretending to be something that you're not. The jolly fat man who is at once playful yet sinister. The exterior smiling hiding an angry and tired prisoner within.

Self Portrait

Discover Topher Goode's collection of captivating abstract watercolor flower paintings. These large-format pieces are perfect for injecting some modern art into your home décor. The vibrant colors and organic shapes will inspire you to reimagine your space.

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