fine art

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso

Are you a painter, do you draw, create sculptures or work in mixed media? We’d love to feast on your creations!

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Dancing Tulips at the Seaside, by Patricia Van Dyck

I am a musician and artist living in Aurora, CO. I am married and have two grown children. After a 35 year break from art work, I have taken up painting again.

“Dancing Tulips at the Seaside” is a pastel painting and is a stylized representation of potted tulips that went gangly. They seemed to be trying to escape the pot. It also represents the first step in my return to doing art work.

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painting by patricia van dyck, all rights reserved

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Dancers, by Melody Epperson

Melody Epperson is an interdisciplinary artist working in Arvada Colorado. She teaches art, music and drama at Jefferson County Open School to elementary aged children. She combines sound, visual art, video, performance art and dance to ask questions such as: What does it mean to dance alone and with others? What endures? What is a woman? Where is the journey taking me?  What is connection?  What is good and evil? View more of her thematic approach to creating at her website: web.me.com/melodyepperson/Site/Welcome.html

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Notes to Self, by Phyllis Mathis

Phyllis Mathis is a writer, a psychotherapist, and a life coach, living and working in Littleton, CO. Her novel is entitled Cold Counsel. Check out her website: Resonance: your life, in tune.

About this piece: Early in 2008, Voca Femina co-founder Jenny Herrick conducted a collage workshop in her home studio. Under her skillful direction, I managed to create this. It represented, and still represents, my dreams for the self I want to be, and the future I want to create. Note to all you timid artists: If I can do this, surely you can too.

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collage by phyllis mathis, all rights reserved

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Loved, and Paris, by Caren Gazley

Caren Gazley lives and works in Arvada, Colorado, homeshooling her brilliant children – yep, she’s Emma’s mom – and building relationships with countless individuals who are dedicated to serve the world in love. Nurturing the creative spirit in herself and others is her current passion.

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This was done one day when I was thinking about my struggles with value and worth. Universal struggles, I suspect… but for me having just gone through a very agonizing three years of self-doubt, grief and loss, I wanted to make something that reminded me of how I felt at my very core. How I felt the creator saw me. ‘Loved’ perfectly described this deep belief. I wanted the woman in the collage to hold on to this… tenderly.

I tend to be conservative and practical with a crazy, adventurous side. It really comes out when I travel. This collage was in honour of one of my favourite places: Paris. when I lived in England, I dreamed of going to France and then my husband found out we were going there for his work. It was absolutely beautiful and everything I’d hoped it would be: incredible!

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The Sowers, by Cyndi Philkill-Doty

My name is Cyndi Philkill-Doty and I live in Castle Rock, Colorado. For a living, I train volunteers in Pregnancy Resource Centers in crisis counseling with materials I have written called Equipped to Serve.  As an artist I dabble in all kinds of media but right now am especially drawn to collage and assemblage. To see more of my work, please visit my Flickr account, or my blog.

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This stone sculpture is called “The Sowers.”  I completed this sculpture when I took a stone carving class at the Denver Botanical Gardens with the visiting Chapungu Sculpture artists. The stone is opal stone from Zimbabwe. In stone carving you are taught to try and see what the stone wants to become. From the earliest contemplation of the original stone I believed I saw a bird. I did not want to see a bird. I wanted to see a woman’s face or a body part but no, the stone wanted to be a bird. I trusted this, even though I was not particularly happy about it, and am now so pleased that I listened to and trusted the process.

Though I saw the bird from the beginning, the hand came later as I worked on carving the stone.  In retrospect, as I look at this sculpture it represents, to me, the circle of dependence of faith and works.

The Sowers, by Cyndi Philkill-Doty, all rights reserved.

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Just Another Blue Funk

Our first fine art offering comes from Jennifer Herrick, one of the creatives involved with Voca Femina. Jennifer is a visual artist, designer, photographer and writer, who has a home studio in Thornton, CO. Her painting is an abstract done in acrylics.

Jennifer says, “I am always pursuing fine lines between emotions, expression, soul state and the larger picture of truth and reality. I may start with a gut thing when I begin a piece, but pretty soon philosophy and theology knock on the door. How can we live in a vacuum? It’s all part of a bigger picture.”

Title of this piece:

Just Another Blue Funk

acrylic on canvas 12" x 12''

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