Untamed

"John Muir's Vision" by Bettina Madini

It was a birthday wish from my beloved..... 'Will you please create a drawing for me, of John Muir?" Who could say no to that? I couldn't. ....

So, having lived for more than 10 years next to John Muir Park, there was the request and also this energy, last December, that made me take out my pencils and draw....

And while I studied Muir's face, I tapped into his spirit.... What a visionary.... a storm of running horses... I tapped into the challenge that a visionary faces.... his eyes gazing far into the future that he knew was possible... his face and hair blending into the rocks and trees that he climbed.... I sensed the glory of his nature perception, oneness with wind and rain, with each flower.... and as I continued my drawing, the mountains in the distance became the feet of long-gone giant trees, petrified stumps of today's Sierra....

The Waters of the lakes started whispering, these waters that run deep in the Earth, giant currents of consciousness.

And, all that created a tumbling current in my world, a current that connects present, past and future, a breeze of knowing that we came here to be greatness and create magical spaces with our magnificent Earth. Nuestro Planeta.

If this speaks to you, if it tingles your senses and inspires your heart, YOU are one of these visionaries. You might face challenges, currently. You might have moments where you just want to fall asleep again and go away. I know.

Just please know that you know. You came here because you have acquired EVERYTHING you need to have in your toolbox. You are beautiful, You are powerful. You can change anything and create anything. Go around the rocks that you have made your problems. Go around them. Keep walking. Move. Move. Move.

There is such beauty around you. There are whispers around you. Beings of such Light and Beauty. You are light and beauty.

Tap, for a moment, into the giant tree being in my drawing, and allow it to gift to you. They are here. We are here.

Cheers, my friends.

We launched 2 editions of "John Muir's Vision".

We are donating a percentage of the sales to the Wisconsin John Muir Chapter of the Sierra Club.

More info about the two limited edition giclee prints HERE

Size 8.25" x 11.5"

(image size 6.25" x 8.8", plus border for framing)

price: $65 (plus sales tax, shipping);

We will send you a separate invoice for sales tax (if applicable) and shipping.

Size 11.5" x 16" (original size)

(image size approx. 9" x 12.7")

price: $99 (plus sales tax, shipping)

 

We will send you a separate invoice for sales tax (if applicable) and shipping.

Being Exposed....

Vulnerability is a wild space to be in.... falling together different, changed, with each brushstroke.... with each gaze across dry grass, caressed by the approaching evening shade. Makes me wonder, what can grow from woman warrior's tears? Our tears are untamed, like Earth's rain, washing away the remaining shades of yesterday. Today is fresh. Stepping away from the canvas. Indigo shadow deepens. Oh, the Beauty I know is possible. I sense it at my fingertips. So easy to be impatient, with future growing inside. Definitions vanish, roles disappear, reference points gone. I gave them to the river. What is now becoming? Brushes set aside, I wash my grateful body. Good night, earth. And I travel into my forest. 🌳✨

What Am I Up To Today?

What am I up to, today? Do you have 4 minutes? "A new painting, 'Being Raw' and Color." I love color. I dance with color. And I know a lot about color. ✨✨✨ Good morning from my studio!

Are you curious about color? "The Language of Color - An Experiment for Living" Zoominar - Feb. 23 ✨🦋

More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2172927306062532/

Raw

'Beyond the Horizon', by Bettina Madini

I tried to win prizes. I tried to paint what I thought people would like. People like jurors, judges, gallery owners, visitors, anybody. Then I found that people will never like what they cannot receive.... 

 

So then, what is art? Is it what somebody says art is? Is it what you see in museums? Or galleries? In magazines? And, does it stop there? It doesn't. To me it is the willingness to explore what is there, what is joyful to me, the rawness of allowing the unexpected to bring forth something that has never been, to show in the language of color my reality, the reality I know is possible, the beauty I perceive around me and to invite the viewer into that space so they can find what they know, what their colors are, what sinfonie they can sing with the earth. 

 

I chose to have my own back, to validate and acknowledge me. I stopped bending myself over backwards for approval. And dug deeper.... beneath the surface of this reality. And found that I'm really happy when I follow the flow of paints, breathe my being into the joyful canvas, dance with my brushes and go beyond the edge of expectations. 

 

This is where I live. More like a jazz composition that begins somewhere and ends somewhere, and in between any universe is possible, any giggle or explosion of stars or burst of volcano, with intersecting feather rivulets, anything. 

 

 

Dreamer

'Dreamer'

Some think it's a nude. That's ok. Some think she's dead. That's ok. 

Nude means no walls, no barriers, total receiving. 

Dead means she let go of those limitations that didn't serve her any longer. 

When these aspects die, it really 'feels' like death. But walking through it is the journey. And coming out of it is .... beyond words.... She is the powerful creator goddess.... She knows the reality of her dreams and dreams them into actualization, while totally vulnerable (no barriers) which allows magical beings such as butterflies to bring her 'invisible' gifts from the stars and the earth. 

She is a potent earth being, she travels in, around and through the earth. She knows. 

She trusts her body that has wisdom and power (see the symbols in her palms, elbow and on her feet). 

In a way, she is like a tree, with deep roots from and to the earth, that feed her and that she nurtures the planet through. She is oneness....✨✨✨✨ 

I painted her in acrylic.

 https://bettinamadini.com/workszoom/707522

Conversations with Tall Tree Walking: The Light You Be.

'How can I open up to the light that is everywhere around me?', she looked up 

at the giant tree with the sense of knowing that her friend would never turn away 

from her questions. 

"I know it is here, yet it seems as if there are walls around me!", 

she was not going to cry but instead melt her resistance and allow her receiving 

to expand what she had once called her broken heart. 

She softened. 

And she relaxed. 

Moving deeper into her softening, 

a swell of intense sweetness 

emerged from her 

heart. 

Her tree friend barely touched her head with his gnarly fingers. 

Oceans of joy and exquisite peace surrounded them both 

like a deep old forest. 

"You have always been that light you seek!" His voice resonated through space.

"You have always been the stars. 

You have always walked as the infinite you you be. Light that chose to breathe with the earth. Thoughts created separation. 

Your mind-head became the filter for your choices. It is such a tiny box. 

Once you live in your heart, once YOU reclaim your body over your head and leave the addiction to thought behind, you WILL have and be more and greater, 

and you WILL walk the becoming that is yours to choose." 

- Tall Trees Walking 🌳✨🦋
https://bit.ly/2F9kumm

What Giants are among us?

What can we receive from the Beings that are walking the earth, that no one is talking about?

What has been whispering in your awareness that has no name, no definition, no words?

Can we receive from them?

What questions can we start asking, questions that will open the doors and gates and portals, questions that will allow you to step through?

Join us on January 13, 2019

3pm Central (4pm Eastern)

Find your local time HERE

We will venture on a journey with the Golden Tall Ones, Tall Trees Walking.

They are here.

Registration: HERE

Contribution: 60$

Once registered, you will receive a confirmation with the payment link.

  

Do you require translation? We have German translation set up. Let us know if you require a different language, and we will make this available.

To register, and for questions, contact bettina@bettinamadini.com

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'Wie kann ich mich dem Licht eroeffnen, das ueberall um mich herum ist?, sie blickte auf zu dem Baum-Riesen mit dem Wissen, dass ihr Freund sich niemals von ihren Fragen abwenden wuerde. 'Ich weiss, es ist da, aber es scheint als wuerden Waende es von mir abwehren!' Sie war entschlossen, nicht zu weinen sondern ihre Widerstaende zu schmelzen und dem Empfangen zu erlauben, ihr Herz, das sie einst gebrochen nannte, auszudehnen.

Sie erweichte.
Und entspannte.
Mit dem Vertiefen ihres Erweichens erhob sich eine Welle intensivster Suesse,
geboren in ihrem Herzen.

Kaum beruehrte Ihr Freund ihren Kopf mit seinen knorrigen Fingern.
Und gemeinsam wurden sie eingehuellt in einen Ozean tiefer Freude und Friedens,
gleichend den tiefen alten Waeldern.

'Du warst immerzu das Licht, nach dem Du suchst.' Seine tiefe Stimme bezauberte Raum.
'Du warst immerzu die Sterne, das unbegrenzte Wesen das du bist. Licht, das waehlte, mit der Erde zu atmen.
Gedanken schafften Trennung.
Dein Verstand-Kopf bekam der Filter fuer Deine Wahlen. Es ist eine derart winzige Box...
Wenn Du beginnst, in Deinem Herzen zu leben, wenn Du Deinen Koerper ueber Deinen Kopf waehlst und die Abhaengigheit zu Gedanken hinter Dir laesst, wirst Du beginnen immer mehr und grossartiger zu sein,
und Du WIRST zu dem Bekommen, das nur Du waehlen kannst."
- Tall Trees Walking 🌳✨🦋
https://bit.ly/2F9kumm

The Secret of the Dragons - What's their Gift? What's their Magic?

 'Blue Dragon'

"Those who have walked through the fire, leave sparks of light wherever they go." Author Unknown

Some things are more magical than you can imagine....

So, what is the Secret of the Dragons and their Pearls? I started painting dragons in 2015, and, interesting to me, they all have a pearl with them.
 
'Blue Dragon' did not want to get out into the world until I added that tiny sphere in front of his/her throat. "Earth Dragon", a 72" long silk banner, has her large sphere. Speaking from pure cognitive process, I would say I don't know what that is about. But you might know already that I'm not functioning from that place of 'cognitive mind'.

What I'm receiving from these paintings and the dragons is far out there and way beyond the mind. These dragons are all intricately connected with the earth. The Earth is sort of a Blue Pearl.
 
I have been painting pearl shapes for some years now, starting with the 'Galactic Series' of 'abstract' universe galaxy paintings. I painted deep space. And aqua blue pearl shapes transposed themselves onto the canvas.

It is a birthing process. It also is our knowing that we have hidden and kept secret.
What is your Secret Pearl that you have hidden? What has been so dear to you, dear viewer, so dear that you hid it away so it couldn't be destroyed by unconsciousness and anticonsciousness?

Is now the time to bring these Pearls back into the here and now? Is now the time for all of us to wake up?

This is what the dragons are urging us to step into. Claiming and owning, cherishing and nurturing our knowing, clearing our vision and creating the future that we came here to create.
We all might have hidden these treasures of consciousness in far away places. We were so good at that, that we ourselves forgot where we put them. The dragons are here for our support, to find that which might be dearly required now. For the thrival of the planet and all those who choose consciousness and oneness.

The story has begun a long time ago, and it is not over. We are the main characters, and our choices will determine what will be here on Earth.
Devastation or Beauty.

What will we choose?
So grateful for you!

Cheers to Magical Possibilities,
Bettina 

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FINE ART PRINTS AVAILABLE (giclee prints on paper), numbered and hand-signed.

Two sizes:

1) 33"H x 23"W, image size 30" x 20", plus 1" border all around the image for framing; price: $350

               2) 16.75" H x 11.5" W, image size: 14.25"H x 9.5" W, plus 1" border; price: $99

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