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Art and the Spiritual Journey
By Susan Hubble Pitcairn and Contributors
A unique and refreshing look at the inspiration behind art and its spiritual significance for how we live. Features the artwork, statements and poetry of eight talented artists, with text by Susan Pitcairn, faculty member of the Sedona Arts Center. A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered what impels us to create beauty.
From the jacket: "The creative process by its very nature is a journey into the psyche. And at the core of what we each are is a space of stillness, beauty and freedom, beyond the confines of conditioned thinking and assumed roles. This is the journey of the artist, and this is the journey of discovery awaiting every human being."
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To Befriend Eternity:
Paintings and Poems of a Spacious Life
Susan's second volume of inspiring and evocative landscapes and the poetry they inspires features many of her most beloved paintings and poems, including 'the Tree,' ("Heaven and Earth"), the 'Clouds' ("The Vast Center") and beautiful waterscapes. It explores the fluid and ephemeral qualities of nature... and life.
It makes a wonderful gift for a loved one. I can sign it with a note acknowledging you and ship it direct.
.Collector's Limited First Edition
22 full color quality glossy pages
$30 plus $3 shipping within North America.
For more information and to order online,
Or send check to Susan at 1865 Gun Fury, Sedona, AZ 86336
THE POETRY OF PLACE
Paintings and Poems of the Southwest
By Susan Hubble Pitcairn
Revised Edition (2011) of Susan's first volume of paintings and poems (2009), featuring newer works "Journey," "Morning Crossing," and others, as well as "Surrender," "Beyond the Divide," "From the Source of All Light" and other well-loved pieces. A special gift for anyone in love with the vast beauty of the Southwest.
Softcover Edition: $30 + $3 shipping
Hardcover: $40 + $3 shipping
"Very lovely and inspiring!" — Linda L.
" Your poetry brought tears to my eyes (really). You are using art (painting and poetry) for its highest purpose – to communicate spiritual concepts and feelings. Your and my approach to the Divine is different, yet quite similar and I feel what you feel when I experience your art.
What a great invention art is – and so effective in the hands of a great artist like yourself. I say 'great' referring to your effectiveness in communication." — Dale V.
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.Collector's Limited First Edition
$30 plus $3 shipping within North America.
22 pages, full-color glossy high quality.
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Beyond the Divide
Infinite chasms
Between one and the other,
Sister, brother.
Between us and them,
Between all we want and how things are.
Terrible voids to abide
It’s an art
To live beyond the divide.
Closer, closer than any imagined distances
There is a light on the place at which we stand
Shining always, here, now.
But how we look beyond
And how we glance below
And how we miss the brilliance and the glow.
Know this:
The greatest divide is but a thought apart
From an open heart.
There is no far, there is no near
Beyond the Divide.
"Beyond the Divide" - 36x36 oil
Eternal Crossing
Ever, this moment.
Ever and ever again.
Eternally changing,
We are the Life
Poised at that
Eternal Crossing
Between past and future.
It all turns on
The point of change.
What is given can be gone
In an instant.
Strip us naked of all clinging,
That we may,
Again and again,
Come home
To a sacred Now.
Eternal Crossing- 16x20 acrylic
Morning Promise
Joy is alive
In the new day of Now,
Fresh sun fresh air fresh birds,
The first ever,
Have we seen this glory before?
I cannot remember.
And yet it is more familiar
Than these hands that write
These eyes that read
And all memories of all that ever was,
Might have been,
Will be,
Or may be,
Put aside now, all,
To allow the great
Ever-renewing,
Ever-surprising,
Ever-delighting
Gift of joy for-no-reason
Unexplainable,
Beyond ordinary rule and principle,
Beyond authority,
Beyond hope and fear,
Simply,
This now, here,
This closer than close.
Morning Joy- 9x12 pastel
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