Joos's journal

28-10-2024

Painting with the Cosmos

For some time now, I have felt the need to paint more organically, more freely, more fluidly.
I bought natural tincture, and color powders. Also lime paste, marble powder, but that wasn’t the end of it.
Apparently, the teacher appears when our inner self is looking for something.
This time it was Suzettte Clough. Her course “Painting with the Cosmos” will start in November.
I felt a big “ÿes”” inside, signed up and bought her book “Visual Medicine”.
The little painting on paper that I am showing here is my first attempt to work according to her method.
This makes me happy.

 

12-09-2024

Wisdom woman

This month a group of women is gathering through the internet, to paint "Wisdom Woman" under the guidance of Flora Aube.
We paint according to the "Art of Allowing", which means that we do not have a preset plan for the painting, but we follow our inner nudges instead.
A fierce woman who is aware of her femininity appeared on my canvas.
The result is always a surprise.

 

07-07-2024

Ocean girl

In the intensive painting course I am taking we are now encouraged to find our own voice.
I feel that I want to continue with watercolor for a while.
This is not offered in the course, so I will have to find my own way.
Ocean girl is the first result of this search.

 

23-06-2024

Waiting

 

Thie painting expresses a kind of zero point in my way of painting.
It is the last of my okd style and the new isn’t here yet.
I spend this Sunday outside, on my terrace.
The weather is good.
And I listen to my inside, looking for the way I want to go.
I don’t need to do anything…
On Youtube I watch instruction videos for watercolor painting.
Especially fluid, free expression fascinates me and fuels my enthouosiasm.
A bit of ’messing around‘ with paint, ink and water appeals to me.
I wait and see what will happen.

 

06-03-2024

Expressing the feminine

Since the beginning of December I have been taking an intensive painting course, online.
I had planned to carry out all the assignments and to resist as little as possible.
It was hard, but I wanted to do it.
Charcoal drawings, still lives, a street in Paris with perspective, all kinds of things.
But I missed the holy fire.
My resistance grew.
This time I allowed myself to choose my own subject for the black on black oil painting.
Suddenly my fingers knew what they wanted to do and the result resonated with my inner being.
To express the feminine, that’s what I want.

 

22-12-2023

Peace on Earth

In these days before Christmas
I need a lot of solitude
As if I am an anchor point
in hectic times

I would like to be a resting place for you
if you want to take a break
So that we can remain close to ourselves
as authentically present as possible

Know that there are many people
who want to live in light and peace
You are not alone in this.

Peace on Earth

 

03-12-2023

Wisdom

I felt a bit triggered.
All of sudden I saw what I was painting: Wisdom.
The feeling of wisdom entered my body and was the answer to my frustration.

 

10-11-2023

The feminine

Sometimes I wonder why I spend so much time on my femininity.
The softness of my body, my sensuality, my desire for more romance, the expression of the feminine in my paintings.
Allowing the feminine brings me closer to myself, beyond the mental ideas.
Beyond the shame I feel when I expose the feminine.
Below I show the original version of a painting, a painting that no longer exists, because I covered her with more paint and changed the expression.
Fortunately I still have a photo of the original, so I can have her beautifully printed on plexiglass or aluminium.
In all sizes, matte or glossy.
I now dare to admit that I think she is beautiful.
Send me an email if you want to order a print.

And it is also possible to order prints of this painting:

 

27-09-2023

Integrating

This painting has been standing in a corner for a long time, because I didn't know how to harmonize the colors of the lower half with those of the upper part.
Apparently, I needed to align my human side even more with my "higher self" before I was able to do so.
Listening to my deeper, higher self and embodying her is part of my life's mission, my destiny.
The little owl on her shoulder and the bird appeared on their own.

 

03-09-2023

Reflecting on the moon

When I make a new painting, I don't start with a plan.
I apply paint to the canvas and see what forms appear.
It feels like a cooperation between the shapes and colours and me.
Although this time I was surprised by the result, I recognized it.
It expresses my need to turn inward.
"Reflecting on the moon" is the name of the painting.