Christmas Joy far into the New Year…

…..is it possible?… It is so easy to be expectant in the Advent time. We are sort of programmed to be happy at Christmas.The New Year’s joy is an explosion of hilarious happiness. And thereafter the ‘grey’ days are coming……Then you have to dig deep to find the joy inside. It comes from thousands of golden stars in the sky, from the red Robin quickly coming to catch a grain of corn from the gavel….. we all have our special sources and talents… if we think carefully….
For me happiness is connected with colours. I have just finished the first strife of an new water colour painting… I haven’t caught it yet…  I am still in the searching for the soul of it…. But then…in a magical moment colours and lines are right… Oh, holy happiness! Cooperation between knowledge and powers, fantasy and talent… and not the least the unfathomable love for the work; wether it is preparing a lesson as a teacher or building a stone wall at the roadside or giving a lecture in a big assembly…. a creating a water colour painting. I want everybody to experience the joy to create and see something grow under your fingers and admire the result….. a plant you have helped to give life..

Good luck with a new creative and colourful year… grey or red, turquoise, green, blue or lilac… and not to forget yellow, the colour of the sun…..

Go
with happy colours
on wandering
searching for
new methods
and new ways
Always alertly looking for
new challenges
at the next hight
.:.

New year….

Those two words contains a universe of possibilities. Christmas is soon over.. the Christmas tree is still standing with lit candles, shining glitter and the star on top….all good words from the holy time, all good deeds and intensions have given us new energy. Good moods, good whiles and moments…alone or with family and friends… Now we are ready to give content to a whole new year….A.D. 2014. Overwhelmed and quite shaky…..standing at a sea shore in Florida…at rolling hills of Yorkshire….beneath the mighty mountauns of Norway… or simply under our shared deep blue starry sky …….thinking that every single 365 days og 2014 is waiting to be filled….

Inspiration
Where I find inspiration
for my paintings?
….
From mind
and from heart
from your openminded
watching
from children’s laughter
and their wonderful wondering
from a kind touch
of my friend’s warm hands
from tear drops and dew drops
from speaking flowers and twinkling stars

Inspiration
is just another word
for hard work
with joy

We have all of us our inspired moments and inspirational sources….
We are all part of making a chain, we are all pearls….