Drum-rolls, Violin Strings and Champagne!!!
What a journey this Rock Art has been (now calling it ‘Rocking Art’ so as not to confuse intuitive painting to rock music with Bushmen Cave Art).
It’s only taken me 4 YEARS TO COMPLETE! I set out to do this whole series within a year but the Universe had other plans (as usual). Read the entire process here: Rocking Art Series.
Before we get to the photographic process of this Queen painting, I’d like to make the first blog announcement that the Rocking Art Series Exhibition is going to be held on the 23rd December 2016. It will be at the funky Karoo Art Hotel in Barrydale (see details in poster to your right).
I am SO excited about this as Templeton and I are going to perform one song from each band after the meet, greet and viewing has taken place.
It’s a tall order and we’re both literally shitting ourselves as the songs aren’t easy…lol. It sure is brown-trouser time!
We’re going to hopefully have someone recording a bit of the live performance and I’ll post it here after the exhibition.
I’m both happy and sad (it’s been on my lounge wall for so long now!) to announce that the Muse painting has been reserved by a wonderful couple from South Africa. However, it will still be on display at the exhibition before it makes its way to its new home in the Cape.
If there is any piece you would like to reserve before the exhibition, please feel free to contact me (cheriedirksen@yahoo.com).
The Show Must Go On!
Without further dilly-dally, let’s look at the painting process slideshow of the last piece in this series —the Queen painting — which I have titled, ‘Exploding This Reality’:
Here it is — in all it’s glory 🙂 Specs are below:
‘Exploding this Reality’ (Queen) by Cherie Roe Dirksen
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Boxed Canvas
Don’t Stop Me Now!
And what would a Rocking Art painting be without the emotions and feelings that came up during the process?
When I paint one of these intuitive pieces, words and emotions filter up and out of me and I write down — on the side of the canvas — what’s surfacing.
Here are the keywords and phrases that came up with Queen:
- Symmetry
- Flowering Consciousness
- Interconnected
- Balance
- Healing
- Positive Discharge
- Creative Energy
- Balancing of Masculine and Feminine Energy
- Sexual Energy
- Dark Strings (?) — ‘Angels Bridging’
I Want to Break Free…And Then Some
Okay, so, the list is pretty self explanatory. But let’s look at them in more detail.
Symmetry is, I guess, why there are so many patterns and codes in this painting. It’s an expression of sacred geometry and divine symmetry.
The flowering consciousness was an interesting one and made me take a step back to really analyze the painting as I was working on it. I saw that the painting looks like it is split into 2 hemispheres (like the left and right brain). There also looks like 2 eye-ball sockets (at the bottom of the painting) with the pineal gland in between. A symbol of the third eye and the awakening consciousness.
I know, it’s VERY abstract but I see it there and this to me represented the balance and especially the balancing of the yin and yang/masculine and feminine principles (right and left brain). Read more about that here: How to Heal and Unite Your Inner Feminine and Masculine.
When you get this, yes, the painting is very interconnected. Because then you have the ‘healing’ that needs to take place in society between the male and female energies which would encompass the Sexual Energy that came up. The Universe works primarily on this Sexual, Creative Energy.
On the left-hand side of the painting — there is a web of strings and when I wrote ‘dark strings’ I was referring to those. I think it’s trying to represent the woven codes of the Matrix? I’ll leave that up to interpretation though. The ‘Angels Bridging’ seemed like the forces of good are working on that.
In the Lap of the Gods…
And, on that spectacular note, the Rocking Art Series concludes. I hope you enjoyed taking this intriguing journey with me and I thank you for all your encouraging words, shares and interest in this body of work.
Who knows, maybe there’ll be a Rocking Art Series 2 down the line!
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Cherie Roe Dirksen 
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