ART EVOLVES CONSCIOUSNESS®
The Consciousness Series is an expression of the unseen worlds of spiritual and emotional energy and their interplay as the individual soul evolves towards a higher state of consciousness.
The paintings sometimes move from dark to light representing the movement from unconscious to conscious awareness. They are a snapshot of mental and emotional experience time and space, the mind aware of itself in a field of universal love. The paintings are executed in a meditative trance and thus become meditative objects, contemporary mandalas.
This work references the sky and sea as metaphors for universal consciousness within which the individual soul experiences and evolves.
Special techniques I developed with oil paint and mediums create luminous surfaces that change with the light as the sky changes with the trajectory of the sun and as the mind changes with the nature of thought.
I look up and I see the sky.
It becomes part of me.
My feelings like clouds
against the clear blue vastness,
scudding across the backdrop of
infinite consciousness.
I look out and I see the ocean.
It becomes part of me.
My memories like islands
in a sea of universal mind.
-Jill Joy
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Sometimes there's a storm coming, you can feel it. The pressure builds, the winds rise. It may be calm outside but you can feel a storm brewing in your life and it's not remotely clear who you will be or what you will be after it passes. It is the very beginning of something new and the end of what currently is.
Many of us would prefer to ignore the storm until it passes. But some of us want to stand on a cliff, overlooking the ocean with the wind blowing in our faces and the rain beating down on our skin.
Painted in oil on primed canvas over 1.5" deep hand built stretchers, signed lower right.
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Grey Skies addresses continued aspiration in the face of loss and struggle. It is an acknowledgment of the difficulty and beauty one encounters when making difficult changes that bring greater authenticity and meaning to ones life. It's a painting about the process of personal evolution. Stark. Dramatic. Beautiful. Subtle.
The tower motif in my work represents the aspiration of the soul towards unity with universal consciousness.
Painted in oil on primed canvas over 2.5" deep hand built stretchers, signed lower right side.
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The tower motif in my work represents the aspiration of the soul towards unity with universal consciousness. Green Sea is about peace and calm waters in the midst of change.
Painted in oil on primed canvas over 2.5" deep hand built stretchers, signed lower right side.
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This painting is about the transformation of anger to compassion. The awareness that we each have our own point of view and even a limited one deserves a compassionate response. Compassion is a more powerful response than anger and all beings deserve it.
Painted in oil on primed canvas over 2.5" deep hand built stretchers, signed lower right side.
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Samskara -- "According to yogic philosophy, we're born with a karmic inheritance of mental and emotional patterns—known as samskaras—through which we cycle over and over again during our lives." @yogajournal lt also means a purificatory ceremony or rite marking a major event in one's life...creating this was a powerful talisman for me as the last painting I made in San Diego before launching myself in Los Angeles in an effort to put to bed self negation of my artistic talents and to embrace my calling and my passion with everything I had.
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Compassion
In my moment of pain,
deep-seated and unavoidable,
I wrap myself in the canvas of compassion.
Purple-blue vibrational waves soothe my mind.
Draped in damp, pliable, paint-stained fabric
the self-judgment lurking in my shoulders
like a sheepish enemy eases.
A white glow of intentional light encompasses my body,
freeing me to love.
(c) Jill Joy 2023
Compassion is a transcendent quality that goes beyond the limitations of our individual egos and connects us with the wider world. It involves feeling empathy for the suffering of others and a desire to alleviate that suffering. It's a quality that inspires us to act selflessly, to put the needs of others before our own, and to reach out to those who are struggling, even if they are strangers.
Compassion has the power to heal the divisions and conflicts that so often tear us apart. When we are compassionate, we see the humanity in others, regardless of their race, religion, or culture. We recognize that we are all part of the same human family, and we are all in this together. It creates a mystical connection - which is what this painting seeks and strives to communicate. They mystical connection between ourselves, nature, each other and the divine.
Compassion has the ability to break down the barriers of fear and mistrust that keep us apart and create a sense of connection and belonging that is essential to our well-being.
Moreover, compassion is important because it helps us to cultivate positive qualities like patience, kindness, and forgiveness. It can inspire us to be more mindful and present in our interactions with others, which in turn can deepen our relationships and make us more resilient in the face of adversity.
In a world that can often feel disconnected and divided, compassion is more important than ever.
(c) Jill Joy 2023
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Rain addresses the purification of the mind and soul of old ideas and insecurities and the birth of new beginnings. Rainwater clears the atmosphere of the sky of debris as tears clear the soul of illusion. We are greater beings than we think
The rising sun icon in my work represents the emergence of the spirit or soul from the sea of ego based desires and attachments toward an illuminated state of unconditional love and forgiveness. Specifically "Rain" addresses the purifying nature of rainfall as the acceptance of change which allows us to clear our personal "atmosphere" and start fresh after experience has burnished us.
Painted in oil on primed canvas over 2.5" deep hand built stretchers, signed lower right side. Original oil painting as well as limited edition prints available.
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Growth is an expression of personal evolution, this painting reflects a period in my life when an old, self-negating paradigm burst into a new more loving and affirming one. In this instance it marks a moment in time when I sacrificed a neurotic need for perfection (to prove that yes, indeed, I am love-able) for an acceptance of loving despite imperfection, both myself and someone in my life.
Early on, I developed a strong need to be perfect as a way of compensating for a difficult childhood — as a means of proving that yes, despite the evidence around me, I was indeed worthy of love. It was effective in someways but ultimately spiritually and creatively debilitating. It was a means of existence based in a lie. During this period in my life I made a major leap forward into a healthier more accepting way of being.
This painting is part of the Consciousness Series but also part of a sub-set of this series I call Evolution.
In my experience, when we grow as people (often by recognizing a truth we have up to that point avoided or been unaware of) there is a burst of energy that occurs inside of us like the creation of a new universe and a new self. We explode outward and inward at the same time and we are no longer the same person. Our consciousness evolves. It’s a subtle process but very real.
Painted in oil on primed canvas over 2.5" deep, hand-built stretchers, signed lower right side.
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When we grow as people, often by recognizing a truth we have up to that point avoided or been unaware of, there is a burst of energy that occurs inside of us like the creation of a new universe. We explode outward and inward at the same time and we are no longer the same person. Our consciousness evolves. It’s a subtle process but very real.
Painted in oil on primed canvas over 2.5" hand built stretchers, this painting comes alive with the light and one senses the presence of movement and expansion. Signed lower right side.
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Change. We can sometimes feel it coming. Pressure builds. We may welcome it or we may avoid it but we avoid the largest changes in our lives at our peril.
I have learned, by swimming in the ocean, that the best way to survive an oncoming wave is to dive right into it rather than stand waist deep in water resisting it.
This painting was inspired by a dream I had of the vast pull back of the ocean as a huge wave built, and then the wave itself. I saw it coming from a high vantage point, coming to wipe away my known life and leave empty space for something new to begin. This dream occurred during a pivotal time in my life when I was ready to relinquish one lifestyle in its entirety and embrace another which was my destiny - to devote myself entirely to being an artist. The poem below was written in tandem with creating this work.
A wave.
has crashed through my life
and separated me
from what has tormented me
and sustained me.
I sit here in the silence
in the receding tide
Wondering.
what will become of me
© Jill Joy
Painted in oil on primed canvas over 2.5" deep hand built stretchers, signed lower right side.
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I sometimes paint to calm myself. It is an act, like meditation, that slows the thinking mind and connects me to something beyond myself. This painting itself was an act of Solace, a moment in time when I took refuge in color, rhythm, movement and beauty from a turbulent world.
Painted in oil on primed canvas over 2.5" deep hand built stretchers, signed lower right side.
In the Distance is inspired by a sense of impending fulfillment out into the future; It’s a painting about faith, premonition and growth.
Painted in oil on primed canvas over 2.5" deep hand built stretchers, signed lower right side.
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Physical and psychic energy is the major currency inJill Joy’s artistry. She generates a sense of momentum, motion, and vastness evenon a small scale. Her vistas keep the eye and body moving across light-filled,expansive picture planes. Violet, ultraviolet, indigo, and blues from dawn to dusk, choppy water and glacial ices, prayerflags to sapphire. - Huffington Post
Alaska is painted in vibrant blue and violet and brings a sense of calm and peace, as if gazing on an infinite horizon. Evocative drips and blank spaces create atmospheric associations with lightning, rain, clouds and vast, empty sky.
This painting speaks to the evolution of two souls together on a shared horizon evolving in relationship. Alaska is from my Consciousness Series which explores the evolution of the soul in a field of universal love using nature as a metaphor for this invisible, energetic development.
Painted in oil on primed canvas over 2.5" deep hand built stretchers, signed lower right.
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