Energy Patterns

Energy Patterns

Based upon the Kabbalah, the Mystical side of the Jewish religion. I was not a religious person. My friend Penny came to me in my studio in Shelton, CT with a giant black and white coloring book, with no color on its pages. As I looked through the book, I realized the information enclosed involved all the disciplines I had studied at one time or another: Astrology, Numerology, Color Theory through Paint, Color Theory through Light and Gemstones. Kabbalah, which means to receive, seemed to help organize all these disciplines I had been interested in my whole life. They seemed responsive to each other as well.

I started my study of Kabbalah and have been happy with the journey it has taken me on. The first painting was done after I moved into an apartment and noticed that the angle of the entrance floor reminded me of Jacob's Ladder, this is a path of energy. It is a map of one's energy. That is what I connected with. As a painter, I have always painted energy in one form or another. It was the framework I felt inside the canvas. Every time I started a new image or structure. This energy directed the construction of the piece, it pulled me in directions I did not realize I was taking. Every painting became a journey to a new place I had not been to before and wanted to discover.