Debbie Arnold paints because it is who she is. Since her earliest memories, visual art has excited her and filled her with unparalleled joy.

 

She began painting with watercolors, drawn to the organic nature of fluid colors

moving across a surface. Later she adopted acrylics to expand her visual fluidity with

layers upon layers of vibrant color. Just as she loves the sensation of water flowing

downstream, she loves creating visual and sensory swirls, flows, and eddies with paint.

After decades of painting, she has evolved into an intuitive artist, illustrating inner

landscapes that emerge through streams of consciousness. She allows each piece to

begin without plans, drawings, models, photographs, or preconceived ideas.

Instead, she creates a canvas full of colors and textures, randomly layering a paint-filled

backdrop with sponges, spattering, pallet knives, collage, imprinting, and pourings. She creates a canvas full of potential life, but empty of any “subject.” And then she steps back and takes a look.

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The process is fully intuitive, and never the same twice. Sometimes she almost

immediately sees something nestled in the color and texture; sometimes she watches the

canvas for days, awaiting its imagery to reveal itself. Eventually, she is able to grasp

what the canvas is showing her and slowly outline or highlight what appears. She 

adds transparent colors and textures that form a shimmering veil through which the

painting’s subject stirs awake, like dawning life along the bottom of a crystal clear

stream. She continues to layer more shading, contour, outline, color, and texture until

the painting itself announces that it is complete.

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Debbie has come to understand and to trust this co-creative process, one that merges her

intuition and vision with a broader, transcendent collective consciousness. When she

paints intuitively she experiences exalted joy, love, connection, and bliss. It’s nearly

indescribable, and she feels wholly alive. Debbie seems to share this experience with

channelers, deep meditators, automatic writers, and any of us who allow our

individual souls to merge with the universal divine. As she paints, observes, and paints

some more, she is transported to an extraordinary state where everything is love and

anything is possible. She feels glorious.

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Yet the response of her audiences and customers is even more gratifying: they seem

to be equally transported to this glorious place merely by viewing her work. No

matter the image or “subject,” people express feeling joy, peace, clarity, and light,

and they stand together, adoring each image sharing smiles and expanded hearts.