Spring comes to The Alchemy Garden

What an incredible spring day over here in The Alchemy Garden.

 Spent the afternoon raking the leaves of winter and clearing the earth beneath...
Cleared out the greenhouse and re potted all the plants and made some cuttings.

There was complete stillness except for a blackbird and a wood pidgeon calling from the pine trees.
So good to feel the sun on my skin again and to go barefoot on the bare earth.

The Labyrinth and fish

Bright light is breaking through deep waters...

Things that have remained hidden are now revealed into the light of day... 

The clouds are clearing revealing a secret:

The flight of the Phoenix

I have no idea what will unfold.
I am using rollers and oil pastels. The painting may change completely at any given moment. Sometimes I scratch away at the surface to reveal the white oil pastel beneath...sometimes I mask certain areas to keep the image in a certain area while I roll on a new coat of another hue.
I seem to be getting bigger...expanding. My whole body now wants to dance across the painting as I roll the pigment.
The Phoenix is taking me on a journey.

For this moment I have no past...
For this moment I have no future...
I am one with this big bird who somehow wants to take me with him through his journey into fire. 

The Phoenix

I am in the process of creating a new painting.
It is comprised of four individual paintings that go together to tell a story.
I don't know what the outcome of the story will be. 
I am only following where my intuition takes me .
The four pieces together will come to approximately five metres in length and I am working on the floor of what used to be the garage until the new studio is completed where I will have the space to crate even larger paintings.
I will photograph the painting as it evolves.
Here is a section of the new painting: The Phoenix:
Early March 2012

The old no longer exists
All that no longer is of purpose has been transformed by fire.
The phoenix is rising from the ashes