“This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don’t want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don’t want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.”
J.R.R. Tolkien

My affinity with dragons I don’t understand.
Appearing in so many of my watercolors,
it is magical.

Watercolor alchemy is outside control ~
the dance of water and paint ~ blending, moving, flowing, clashing.
The more color is living, the livelier the dance.
Being “IN” the dance is livelier still.

This painting was painted with desire’s energy focused inward.
The pain of emotion unwanted but present. Staying present within it and moving forward despite it.

The desire to be free.
Freedom’s dance.

Allowing the dance of subconscious, it guides my brush. And it is a practice. The desire ~ To create him brilliantly aflame in color.
And for me, he is my most powerful dragon, holding deep secrets never spoken but seared in the heart.

Who knows if a dragon can be?

My house is built on the back of the dragon according to Feng Shui, a practice as ancient as time.
The back of the dragon is the power position, the ridge line, the knoll facing west.
A perfect east west, north south axis regardless the sun shines into the house during summer afternoons.
The oaks protect with their spreading shade.

Perhaps it is strange to say one believes in dragons but somehow I feel better knowing where I sit.

{watercolor, arches cold-pressed £140, 22″x30″}

 

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The ridge of
The sleeping dragon.

{apologies i had to re-publish. mistakes plague me @2am.}

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