I can see I am brand new at this techno-blogging by posting a reply to myself, but I felt compelled to delve into this techno-adventure, even though I am an artist, a nature and animal lover, and at this time of the year really love to be outside. Spring is the awakening — to use the fashionable word of the year — of the senses — including the sixth sense (our most primal)!
I am an animal behaviorist with a special love for the cats, the big cats, the lesser wild cats, the domestic cats! I have loved animals shortly after birth. This influence came about from my being born and placed on a bear rug, and sleeping on that bear rug for naps, and finding great contentment and company in that wild fur. I also grew up looking at a painting of a leopard that my parents have in their house, and I believe that had a great influence on my love for the wild cats, for their patterns, and I just felt connected to all felid species. I have worked with tigers, leopards, clouded leopards, lions, siberian lynx, canada lynx, and other cats here in the USA and in Africa. My largest experience has been working with an education, animal ambassador named Sampson. I have worked with him from three-weeks old. He is now four! He is one of my bestest furry friends! We have quite a bond, and I am very privileged to know him. He makes me glad I am alive and has given me so many spiritual gifts. And this mutual respect and love takes no effort on either of our parts. It is instinctive!
My art is inspired from my feelings about these animals, nature, the beauty of the world, the World’s magic, what God’s grace has given us. My art consists of watercolors, oils, miniature sculptures, jewelry, and is a mixture of realistic view points with fantasy, to convey messages of my feelings, the ethereal, and what is and can be in form. Each piece I create is an adventure in itself. I get lost in the process and live in my own world. Each piece has a personality and speaks to me as it lives in my mind until it is finished and separates in form from my mind letting go. The process of finishing is the realizing of letting go of the inner world I have lived in and cherished at that time, and a mindful, objective eye to my technical validity and process.
My life-long love of animals and work with them has perpetuated my connection to the unseen as well as the seen. Nature, and all of its creation, inspires me to rise above good and evil and feel the complexity of the universe, feeling humble, peaceful, a sense of grace, arrested in the thought that everything is all right. And nature takes away the “my” and gives me the “we” in all rightness.
Pictures of these animal greats, stories, and paintings to come!
Loving Mother Earth, Laura
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