Sunflowers

 Looking at sunflowers and painting.

A few studies towards the end of the summer.

Did you know there are orange sunflowers too?

Amitabha Variation

A variation on one of my most popular Buddha images 

Manjugosha on Blue Lion throne

 A recently completed exploration of Manjugosha, the gentle voiced prince of wisdom. Acrylic on board. The subtleties in the colour ranges are difficult to capture in a photograph.

Vajradakini - blue sky dancer

 First of a new series of wisdom sky dancers - Vajradakini embodying the activity of mirror like wisdom and the essence of the adamantine thunderbolt of direct understanding. She is painted on a circular canvas alongside dragons, the wise nagas, and the sun and moon. She holds a vajrabell and a vajra staff.

Akasadhateshvari variations

 Akashadhatesvari is the Queen of Vajra space in the centre of the mandala of the five wisdoms, consort of Vairocana and embodiment of the Wisdom of Truth. I am experimenting with different ways of depicting her. I feel I have further to go to grasp her elusive essence.  In the meantime here is work in progress.

She holds two lotuses on which sit the Dharmachakra wheel and a Vajra Bell. Her hands are in the teaching mudra turning the wheel of the Dharma. 

Dance in the Light of the Sun and the Moon

 

A sky dancing Chodma inspired by Machig Lapdron who founded the lineage of Chod practitioners. The sun and moon both shine in the sky symbolising that the dance is happening outside time. The Chodma is wearing bone ornaments and plays a Chod drum and a vajra bell. The Khatvangha on the left of the painting is a golden staff rich in symbolism.

Aryatara

Here is a commission - the patron wanted a sense of midnight - the time of day of Amoghasiddhi, Aryatara's consort. 

Avalokitesvara

A recently completed commission of 4 Armed Avalokitesvara.

A New Year Flower Mandala Dance

More digital drawing - planned as a dance the footprints turned into a spiral as I worked on the piece.

Nyimer Odzer

Sunbird

....continuing the theme of the Phoenix....

Amitabha (from my sketchbook)

Night Rider

The sun and the moon are shining in the sky.

The journey continues.