"Focus-Within"
Patti Heller Painting

The sets are mostly still with me as I have not displayed recent work and collections (and part collections) of previous years.

My themes range in varous subjects. The Universality of Humankind and the challenges  faced today surface.

Pictures are in varying sizes and can be framed.

From an art perspective, I enjoy looking at the beautiful structure of churches, and recognise the dedication and devotion with which they are built, and how this reflects in the terrain they grace. The steeples are Feng Shui positive and churches are a tribute to architecture.

Inside one may be met with an accumulation of discarded thought currents that have been dumped and let go of, but instead I find that the overriding atmosphere is one of peace and refuge,

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Directing energies. Aggression should be kept in reserve as a tool and used for self-protection only. How often we waste this precious resource, perhaps in defending the ego.

Courage and determination are also precious resources, which, if directed well, yields the illusive results we are ever pursuing. Life ought to be fun as well, as we are endowed with attributes from the Divine and each person is fully equipped to deal with life as it comes to us every day.

Appreciation of effort is one thing art teaches: most of all the effort involved in the mixing and applying of colour that sometimes fades the moment you look away, having to re-apply, and keep a steady stroke while catching the same glint in the colour teaches to know your medium (oil, turps, or mixer,) and to have sufficient quantity to complete the section.

This the most enjoyable aspect: It invokes a willing discipline from within that is not imposed, and from this self training co...

Philosophy of Art integrated

There comes a time when art shows the artist that there is nothing new in the world, accept variations of the same themes,  that have been continuing since the year dot.

So why don't artists stop painting? - Mainly perhaps because the concept of art and materialising of thought in a containable and controllable manner by one or more person/s continues, as long as one lives. It is an aspect of  personal...

With Reference to the Johannesburg Art Fair currently being planned for opening on 4,5th April 2009, (Weekender Newspaper, Saturday, Sunday March 28th and 29th 2009) - I take inspiration - to suggest, stemming from  a recent visit to the Claremont Botanical Park Heritage Site, - to potential Sponsors and Art Professionals and Amateurs - to showcase their works under a banner of the previous Art in the Park theme that has been run quite successfully to the best of my knowledge in Gauteng ...

The first way to alleviate poverty is in the concept. If  something is not up to the standard of pristine-clean-and-hardly-green;  it does not necessarily have to mean...

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Living well is hard to explain, it does not necessarily mean having more. It actually means integrity. Choosing that good company and companionship which will enable us to have ease of communication for the sake of our personal spirit growth in our home life means living well. Or so this is my thinking tonight.

I am wondering if any sunshine will not reach us if we do not have as many material advantages as our neighbours. Also, if we need shade, will the tree refuse ...

The sacred space in our heart