yoga...my healing
yoga...my healing
yoga...my healing
art...my heart
Whilst yoga frees my body and mind - creating art definitely feeds my soul.
Long before I'd even heard of a downward dog, I was always drawing, painting or making things. Mostly self-taught, I like to use mixed media - paint, inks, collage, charcoal... what ever I can get my hands on really.
I have a little shed in the bottom of my garden which is where I do most of my painting, and there's a sign on the door that states, 'To you it may only be a shed, but to me it's a sanctuary'. And indeed it is. When I'm lost in a painting (in Jacq's little world!) then it's like my own meditation. I'm in the flow... hours go by and I'm blissfully unaware.
Art is also my yoga.
Painting a mural in Antigua, Guatemala, 2018
30 day Painting challenge
In January 2021, I took part in a 30 day painting challenge to raise money for prostrate cancer research (due to my dad having the disease)
I had to paint over the same painting each day, letting my intuition guide me and having courage to let go of what went before. As well as raising over £500, it look me on a journey where I learned way more about myself than I'd expected - kicking down the walls of comfort town for sure!
Since then, I've created blank, A5 greetings cards from some of the most popular paintings.
They cost £12 per pack (+ p&p), or 2 packs for £22 and £1 from each sale will go to the same charity for prostate cancer research. Please get in touch if you'd like to buy some.
Prints are also available on request.
PACK 1
PACK 2
The finished painting
"Art is unquestionably one of the purist and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and I through the mind. As the sun colours flowers,
so does art colour life."
John Lubbock (1834-1913) "The Pleasures of Life"