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Life Model Drawings
Life Model Drawings
Amazone Series
conscious healing art
I am all that has been,
is, and will be,
and no mortal
has ever unveiled me.
A Self-portrait Series
Bringing The Silver Out
A Self-portrait Series
Oil on canvas, 2022
100x150 cm
The women who is a virgin, one in herself, does what she does not for power or out of the desire to please, but because what she does is true. She is the part of us [in men and women] who is outcast, the part that comes to consciousness through going into darkness, mining our leaden darkness, until we bring her silver out.
Marion Woodman
Oil on canvas, 2022
100x150 cm
The women who is a virgin, one in herself, does what she does not for power or out of the desire to please, but because what she does is true. She is the part of us [in men and women] who is outcast, the part that comes to consciousness through going into darkness, mining our leaden darkness, until we bring her silver out.
Marion Woodman
An Awakening Woman
A Self-portrait Series
Oil on canvas, 2021
155x222 cm
To awaken is to heal. It’s not about becoming more, or changing, but about allowing to cleanse away and release outworn distortions coming from society, limiting ancestral beliefs and karmic patterning — to reveal the immaculate Light that was always there.
An Awakened Woman is a Warrior, a Queen of the Heart.
She shows you the Way of the Heart and the many facets of your own Soul that needs to be healed, for she has learned how to heal hers. She won’t yell, argue, entertain or tolerate negative, abusive energy like others might have done. She will dismiss situations like these because she has learned to love herself and is destined to find a soulful man who is more on her Cosmic Level. Only when a man has learned to listen to his Heart he can hear her calling him.
Choosing to be romantically and sexually intimate with an Awakened Woman takes Divine Masculine Courage to walk fearlessly into the Unknown. But it will reap rewards beyond your mind’s comprehension.
She will take you into Undiscovered Worlds of Mystery and Magic. She will lead you, mesmerised and half-drunk with love, into the Wild Forests of Sensual Ecstasy and Wonder. She will show you Sacred Skies so full and burning with stars that you will start to wonder if you are still living on the same planet that you were born on.
She will break and tear you open so that your Fierce Passionate Heart drives you half-mad with longing. You will want to consume and penetrate her on every level so that your Masculine Essence can consume and penetrate the World – illuminating the Universe with your Devoted Love.
She will see you like you’ve never been seen before. She will trust you. She will be honest and loyal. She will appreciate you. She will give you breathing room and time to pursue your adventures and dreams. She will learn from and with you. She will support, inspire and encourage your Authentic Self. She will speak words that your Soul understands and she will always have your back. She will be your best friend and confidant. She will acknowledge your efforts to make her happy. She will laugh and joke with you. She will value everything good that you do, and everything good that you are. She will see you as her True Hero. And she will not run from your darkness, because your darkness does not scare her. She takes darkness and turns it into Light. She takes your base metal and turns it into Gold.
She will embrace, kiss, caress and love you back to Life.
What she needs from you? Respect, bravery, strength, emotional availability, openness, tenderness and the acknowledgement that she’s your Queen. When she is tired, she needs you to give her rest so she can strenghten her magic to work beside you. When she is sad, she needs you to hold her space and keep her close. And when she is frightened, she needs you to keep her safe. That is all she asks. In return she will give you the World like you’ve never seen it before.
It is a monumental endevour to love an Awakened Woman, because there is suddenly no place left to hide. She sees everything, she sees you. Therefore she can love you with a Depth and Presence that your Heart, Body and Soul have yearned for so hard, so long, so fiercely, that you wonder whether you have actually been alive for all the time that she has been away. Loving a woman like this, is a choice you make to start living with your Soul on Fire.
Original words by Mike Harrigan, compiled and freely amplified by SofieAFDeSmet
Oil on canvas, 2021
155x222 cm
To awaken is to heal. It’s not about becoming more, or changing, but about allowing to cleanse away and release outworn distortions coming from society, limiting ancestral beliefs and karmic patterning — to reveal the immaculate Light that was always there.
An Awakened Woman is a Warrior, a Queen of the Heart.
She shows you the Way of the Heart and the many facets of your own Soul that needs to be healed, for she has learned how to heal hers. She won’t yell, argue, entertain or tolerate negative, abusive energy like others might have done. She will dismiss situations like these because she has learned to love herself and is destined to find a soulful man who is more on her Cosmic Level. Only when a man has learned to listen to his Heart he can hear her calling him.
Choosing to be romantically and sexually intimate with an Awakened Woman takes Divine Masculine Courage to walk fearlessly into the Unknown. But it will reap rewards beyond your mind’s comprehension.
She will take you into Undiscovered Worlds of Mystery and Magic. She will lead you, mesmerised and half-drunk with love, into the Wild Forests of Sensual Ecstasy and Wonder. She will show you Sacred Skies so full and burning with stars that you will start to wonder if you are still living on the same planet that you were born on.
She will break and tear you open so that your Fierce Passionate Heart drives you half-mad with longing. You will want to consume and penetrate her on every level so that your Masculine Essence can consume and penetrate the World – illuminating the Universe with your Devoted Love.
She will see you like you’ve never been seen before. She will trust you. She will be honest and loyal. She will appreciate you. She will give you breathing room and time to pursue your adventures and dreams. She will learn from and with you. She will support, inspire and encourage your Authentic Self. She will speak words that your Soul understands and she will always have your back. She will be your best friend and confidant. She will acknowledge your efforts to make her happy. She will laugh and joke with you. She will value everything good that you do, and everything good that you are. She will see you as her True Hero. And she will not run from your darkness, because your darkness does not scare her. She takes darkness and turns it into Light. She takes your base metal and turns it into Gold.
She will embrace, kiss, caress and love you back to Life.
What she needs from you? Respect, bravery, strength, emotional availability, openness, tenderness and the acknowledgement that she’s your Queen. When she is tired, she needs you to give her rest so she can strenghten her magic to work beside you. When she is sad, she needs you to hold her space and keep her close. And when she is frightened, she needs you to keep her safe. That is all she asks. In return she will give you the World like you’ve never seen it before.
It is a monumental endevour to love an Awakened Woman, because there is suddenly no place left to hide. She sees everything, she sees you. Therefore she can love you with a Depth and Presence that your Heart, Body and Soul have yearned for so hard, so long, so fiercely, that you wonder whether you have actually been alive for all the time that she has been away. Loving a woman like this, is a choice you make to start living with your Soul on Fire.
Original words by Mike Harrigan, compiled and freely amplified by SofieAFDeSmet
Inner Child Healing
A Self-portrait Series
Oil on canvas, 2021
80x60 cm
As a child our relationship with our caretakers profoundly influences our adult relationships. Through them we learn how to 'be' in relationships and what to expect from partners when we grow up. Most adults have 'inner child wounds'. In its healthy state the inner child deals with innocence, creativity and playfulness. Yet, during our upbringing we often have learned to take responsibility for situations we were not supposed to be responsible for. When situations like these get triggered again in our adult life, the inner child gets scared. Fearing that when we do something wrong others will not pay attention to our care. They might become angry with us and take their love away. When the inner child is upset, you will notice unconscious self-sabotage, irrational behaviors and strong emotions coming to the fore. It is crucial to talk to your inner child to see what it needs to heal the wounds and resolve the misunderstandings.
Oil on canvas, 2021
80x60 cm
As a child our relationship with our caretakers profoundly influences our adult relationships. Through them we learn how to 'be' in relationships and what to expect from partners when we grow up. Most adults have 'inner child wounds'. In its healthy state the inner child deals with innocence, creativity and playfulness. Yet, during our upbringing we often have learned to take responsibility for situations we were not supposed to be responsible for. When situations like these get triggered again in our adult life, the inner child gets scared. Fearing that when we do something wrong others will not pay attention to our care. They might become angry with us and take their love away. When the inner child is upset, you will notice unconscious self-sabotage, irrational behaviors and strong emotions coming to the fore. It is crucial to talk to your inner child to see what it needs to heal the wounds and resolve the misunderstandings.
Liquid Light
A Self-portrait Series
Oil on canvas, 2021
80x120 cm
I am my own muse.
I am the subject I know best.
The subject I want to better.
Frida Kahlo
Oil on canvas, 2021
80x120 cm
I am my own muse.
I am the subject I know best.
The subject I want to better.
Frida Kahlo
Bringing The Silver Out
A Self-portrait Series
Ink and oil study for a painting, 2021
24x28 cm
Ink and oil study for a painting, 2021
24x28 cm
Inner Child Healing
A Self-portrait Series
SOLD - Ink and oil study for a painting, 2021
24x32 cm
SOLD - Ink and oil study for a painting, 2021
24x32 cm
My Human Nature
A Self-portrait Series
Oil on canvas, 2020
60x120 cm
Life's energetic elixir.
I am in everything and everything is in me.
Oil on canvas, 2020
60x120 cm
Life's energetic elixir.
I am in everything and everything is in me.
Your Ol' Companion
A Self-portrait Series
Charcoal on paper, 2019
60x82 cm
(private collection)
I'm gonna prove myself worthy
No more just hanging on
Without a prayer of a chance
I'm gonna come without warning
When your defenses are down
and you're in a desperate need
Oh, I bet you, you then,
you'll welcome me,
Your ol' companion
Lyrics from the song 'When Your Heart Is Weak'
Charcoal on paper, 2019
60x82 cm
(private collection)
I'm gonna prove myself worthy
No more just hanging on
Without a prayer of a chance
I'm gonna come without warning
When your defenses are down
and you're in a desperate need
Oh, I bet you, you then,
you'll welcome me,
Your ol' companion
Lyrics from the song 'When Your Heart Is Weak'
I Just Ride
A Self-portrait Series
Ink and gouache on paper, 2020
30x40 cm
Ink and gouache on paper, 2020
30x40 cm
You Gave Me The Kiss Of Life
A Self-portrait Series
Pencil and acryl on paper 2020
20x31 cm
When I was led to you
I knew you were the one for me
I swear the whole world could feel my heartbeat
When I layed eyes on you
You wrapped me up in the colour of love
You gave me the kiss of life
Kiss of life
Lyrics from 'Kiss of life' from Sade
Pencil and acryl on paper 2020
20x31 cm
When I was led to you
I knew you were the one for me
I swear the whole world could feel my heartbeat
When I layed eyes on you
You wrapped me up in the colour of love
You gave me the kiss of life
Kiss of life
Lyrics from 'Kiss of life' from Sade
The Wounded Healer
Oil on canvas, 2019
70x100
I am a healer
And I am wounded
Wounded by a patriarchal construct
A disembodied dominance
A desecration of the Deep Feminine
Unable to see and revere
Her wise, feral secrets
Taming to seize control
Inside and out
Strangling the Source
Of life itself
I am looked at. Lusted over.
Reduced to pretty proportions
Not beheld and honoured
In my primal power
The grasping hand
Taking what is only numinous
When given
Can you not see that
This is holy ground?
Wounds beget wounds
And Protectors fortify gates
Preventing invasion
While trapping me in the
Small confines of my safety
Better invisible
Than violated
This I know
Too well
But the call to freedom
To an unabashed announcement
A proud proclamation
Of the winged and wild Magic
That flows in Her blood
Rings loud and moves deep
Rattling discarded old bones
It’s time to sing
Her soul
Back into Life
An inner resistance
Surges forward
To name and proclaim
Her sacred sovereignty
Calls me to reckon with
The fucked-up parameters
Of the whole godforsaken story
A call to let the
Great fires burn
Fires of rage
Flaming with discernment
Radiating light and love
Fires of power
Burning with humility
Glowing with wisdom
Ablaze with clarity of heart
Fires to consume
The construct of The Construct
Not only out there
But also, and firstly
In here
In the exiled establishments
Of my own being
Where this blade
Also lives in me
The uncomfortable truth
Of wholeness
Lest my best attempt
At healing
Sadly end up fuelling
The Shadow’s veiled intent
A collusion with the split,
The fear-full ‘Othering’
That braces us for battle
Ensuring we all remain
Armoured and afraid
May the women we now call witches
Who burned and drowned
For embodying the Knowing
Feel us turn
Turn to see, turn to stand
Feel the legacy of strength and fear
And find a way to speak
Deep bow to these, my ancestors
To yours too
May my voice be neither meek,
Nor mired in force
But a fierce, unapologetic,
Undomesticated howl
To serve the re-wilding restoration
The sacred balance
Of Life Itself
To this end,
may my life be true.
Jacqueline Sheridan
The Wounded Healer is the archetype of the Self, our wholeness, the God within, and it is at the bottom of all genuine healing procedures.
Marie-Louise Von Franz
Wounded Healers are not made. They created themselves through conquering Adversity, Trial Error and Extreme suffering. They conquer fear and find a way to learn to speak their truth even when they are afraid. In doing so they Shine Light on others who are lost and feel alone. And in return their Inner Light ignites with renewed purpose. A purpose greater than they ever could imagine.
Mike Harrigan
70x100
I am a healer
And I am wounded
Wounded by a patriarchal construct
A disembodied dominance
A desecration of the Deep Feminine
Unable to see and revere
Her wise, feral secrets
Taming to seize control
Inside and out
Strangling the Source
Of life itself
I am looked at. Lusted over.
Reduced to pretty proportions
Not beheld and honoured
In my primal power
The grasping hand
Taking what is only numinous
When given
Can you not see that
This is holy ground?
Wounds beget wounds
And Protectors fortify gates
Preventing invasion
While trapping me in the
Small confines of my safety
Better invisible
Than violated
This I know
Too well
But the call to freedom
To an unabashed announcement
A proud proclamation
Of the winged and wild Magic
That flows in Her blood
Rings loud and moves deep
Rattling discarded old bones
It’s time to sing
Her soul
Back into Life
An inner resistance
Surges forward
To name and proclaim
Her sacred sovereignty
Calls me to reckon with
The fucked-up parameters
Of the whole godforsaken story
A call to let the
Great fires burn
Fires of rage
Flaming with discernment
Radiating light and love
Fires of power
Burning with humility
Glowing with wisdom
Ablaze with clarity of heart
Fires to consume
The construct of The Construct
Not only out there
But also, and firstly
In here
In the exiled establishments
Of my own being
Where this blade
Also lives in me
The uncomfortable truth
Of wholeness
Lest my best attempt
At healing
Sadly end up fuelling
The Shadow’s veiled intent
A collusion with the split,
The fear-full ‘Othering’
That braces us for battle
Ensuring we all remain
Armoured and afraid
May the women we now call witches
Who burned and drowned
For embodying the Knowing
Feel us turn
Turn to see, turn to stand
Feel the legacy of strength and fear
And find a way to speak
Deep bow to these, my ancestors
To yours too
May my voice be neither meek,
Nor mired in force
But a fierce, unapologetic,
Undomesticated howl
To serve the re-wilding restoration
The sacred balance
Of Life Itself
To this end,
may my life be true.
Jacqueline Sheridan
The Wounded Healer is the archetype of the Self, our wholeness, the God within, and it is at the bottom of all genuine healing procedures.
Marie-Louise Von Franz
Wounded Healers are not made. They created themselves through conquering Adversity, Trial Error and Extreme suffering. They conquer fear and find a way to learn to speak their truth even when they are afraid. In doing so they Shine Light on others who are lost and feel alone. And in return their Inner Light ignites with renewed purpose. A purpose greater than they ever could imagine.
Mike Harrigan
Going Forth, Growing Wings
A Self-portrait Series
SOLD - Mixed media study for a painting, 2019
21x29 cm
(private collection)
SOLD - Mixed media study for a painting, 2019
21x29 cm
(private collection)
The Nine Wands
A Self-portrait Series
Ink on paper, 2019
42x28 cm
(private collection)
Naked before you She stands,
protected by The Nine Wands,
The Nine Cheerleaders.
Ink on paper, 2019
42x28 cm
(private collection)
Naked before you She stands,
protected by The Nine Wands,
The Nine Cheerleaders.
I sensed my loss (before I even learned to talk)
A Self-portrait Series
Oil on canvas board, 2019
40x60 cm
(private collection)
From the song 'To Forgive'
Oil on canvas board, 2019
40x60 cm
(private collection)
From the song 'To Forgive'
The Journey Of My Awakening Soul, II
A Self-portrait Series
Collage on an anonymous oil painting, 2019
(private collection)
Collage on an anonymous oil painting, 2019
(private collection)
The Journey Of My Awakening Soul, I
A Self-portrait Series
Collage on an anonymous oil painting, 2019
(private collection)
Collage on an anonymous oil painting, 2019
(private collection)
Burden
A Self-portrait Series
Acryl on paper, 2018
25x33 cm
(private collection)
When our spiritual longing or emotional extremes become burdens we are always rising in inspiration and falling back to reality.
Acryl on paper, 2018
25x33 cm
(private collection)
When our spiritual longing or emotional extremes become burdens we are always rising in inspiration and falling back to reality.
The Story Behind A Self-portrait Series
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