I find it hard to pin myself down and give a title or identity. To name a few, I am a human, daughter, grand daughter, great grand daughter and up the braid, mother, friend, soul sister, partner, lover, explorer, student, mermaid, creator, and finally claiming the word, artist.

Hind sight, 2020 --- is when I first started entertaining the call to paint. Since, well, I could remember, there was a spark for taking photos of moments that pulled my soul strings~ of nature, and sometimes people.  We'll call it nostalgia in motion, wanting to 'capture' the feeling to return to it later. In 2009 I got my first DSLR camera and the journey begins. I followed my heart to many places, learned many a lessons. In 2013 I really started to open and hear my intuition - it said, Hawaii?!? Later that year of November I landed over the rainbow on the valley isle of Maui. There, a new soul chapter began. Here, it was a spiritual, Magical journey like none other~ to say the least. I learned who I was, and wasn't. Fast forward a whole 12 year cycle of lessons and moments of the most heavenly highs, and darkest nights of the soul - I find myself back where I started in Upstate / Western NY.   Now with a little bloom of my own, my greatest slow art created yet, a Nova Sky.  We are starting a whole new hero's journey, and excited to follow the bread crumbs and see where the Divine leads us in this next season of life.

Amongst all the crazy in this world, I have found my art and painting practice / process to be the Stoke of my inner flame. It helps me process internally all the changes, the darkness, and integrate and alchemize it into light and beauty. I find myself out in Nature being nurtured by her whenever it gets LOUD, which seems often. It softly brings me back to balance. Especially with all the tech that will continue to evolve. I find it a core value to stay close to this Earth and connected to the most high as we navigate these changing tides. 

My art practice really anchored in 2023, after I birthed my daughter in 2021. Being pregnant, physically going through birth, & rebirthing myself simultaneously in a time when the world was crumbling during the P word - ROCKED me. I had to go within to protect our sanity. Watercolor whispered, I said 'shut it' - no way. I have no idea what I am doing. YouTube university crept in. I gave it a whirl. Excruciating. so hard. Perfection activated. Analysis paralysis. Also, surrender. From here is where it all began. The battle of darks and lights within. Then - left in its wake, an artifact of beauty. A timeless moment of what I once felt in real life, taken as a photograph, and now experienced through the medium of water and color - coming to find the subjects were asking me to embody them. The medicine, the experience gave me. I started calling them medicinal moments in my mind. After I finished each one, I felt such a rush of NRG activated through all my cells! My first series is called 'uncharted' because it is literally what it felt like. Like I was going into the open and wild seas, trusting my heart, intuition, stars, God, and following its lead. One day, I wish to really learn to Sail. I look forward to visiting the islands with fresh eyes, just as I would visit NY with a shifted lens for those 12 years. 

As I keep learning it is safe to trust this muscle, this instinct, the more curious I get of where I am being led. AND,  I continue the practice of surrender, enjoying the ripe present moment of not knowing and just keep on the path of being and unfolding.  The battle of the ego mind, and the heart, and the whole journey is bringing them into balance, at least for me. From here, we flow. Eventually maybe it'll get easier one, could hope! and they won't have to battle. We can acknowledge each others existence, and purpose, that is for a greater whole when we work together in coherence. 

I feel this new Wave of Love here and rising, flowing through, clearing all the debris.  The noise is loud.   
Its a process, & its the work, & I'm here for it.
We are here for it.

It gives me great joy, pleasure, and peace when *time* *energy* and *inspiration* all align and I am able to paint, or create anything. After all, we are create -ures.  I have understood the opposite of expression is depression, hence I am an huge advocate of MOVING THAT NRG! we flow, we grow. In a world where DO DO DO has been the conditioned norm, I find it my personal little revolution - my rebellion - every time I am able to sit at my seat, meditate, receive, and create. 

The thing that really gives me the juice - is connecting with YOU. Like minded community. Soul level is not just a business, or brand, and it has always felt like a name bigger than me to 'claim'. I am just an advocate. A space holder. It is a frequency. It is an invitation. It is within us all. The home within to attune to. To be lived from. I hope this will be a big community one day, of humans, healers, artists, creators alike. 

Its is truly one of the greatest of honors, and privilege to serve in this way.

Thank you for being here, and thank you for receiving me. 
If you are looking for a soul sis, I'm here. Stay connected.
If any of my heart speaks to you, maybe it was created for you, too. 

infinite Love. 
the kinda Love that cuts through all the bullsh*t <3 

         
                            auren F. Stirpe