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A Celebration of Intentional Creativity

12/12/2024

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iMusea Community of Women Artists
​Self-Expression for All ~ online exhibition >link<

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Creating intentionally has an amazing ability to reveal your truth, expand your consciousness, and reveal your voice. This is our one true power: the curation of consciousness.    Shiloh Sophia, Curator

Including the work of Pegi Eyers, "A Celebration of Intentional Creativity" on December 12, 2024 marks iMusea's 9th anniversary. The exhibition spotlights intentional art made this year by the MUSEA membership, community, supporters and friends worldwide, and showcases diverse media such as painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media and drawing. As a celebration of their creative accomplishments, each participating artist shared works of self-expression created in 2024.  These are the artistic journeys of artists who use Intentional Creativity as a catalyst to create.

A Celebration of Intentional Creativity
- selected works from the exhibition -

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"The Eternal Spiral"  Pegi Eyers, cut paper

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"Stitching the Sacred Feminine"
​Pegi Eyers, embroidery on collage & painted papers

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"Midnight Weaver"  Kimberly McGuiness

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"Moonsgate"  Cheryl Gallagher

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"La Limpia"  Cindy Miro-Quesada

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"The Art of Overcoming Obstacles" 
​Sue Boardman

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"A World of Blessings, Unfolding" 
​Sandra Longmore

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"Heart Open Breath"  Michelle Lee

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"The Harmonics of Color"  Jodi Hinkle

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"The Whisper"  Ann Hemdahl-Owen 

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"Golden Realm"  Sandra Longmore

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"The Golden Peacock" 
Sandra Longmore

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"Gems: The Phoenix and the Lotus" 
​Ann Hemdahl-Owen

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"I am Divine"  Michelle Lee

Based in Sonoma, California, iMusea is dedicated to ensuring that all women artists are seen and recognized. The Intentional Creativity® Foundation stewards the museum and its membership, creating opportunities and content for artists, and serving the MUSEA community of women artists.
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Pegi Eyers is also the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores social justice, nature spirituality, the ancestral arts, and resilience in times of massive change.  www.stonecirclepress.com
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Soul Art Day 2024

6/27/2024

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Hosted by Laura Hollick, June 27 was Soul Art Day~! This was an incredibly transformative experience, and I love the concept of creating art together in community. The art-making process is always a healing journey, and I created this dyptych with conté, charcoal, pen, ink and collage to convey the passage from inner constraints and grief, to the freedom and joy of creative flow.

Tracing Hands
​by Pegi Eyers

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"Tracing Hands" by Pegi Eyers

My profile as published in
Soul Art Gallery International
>online<

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What Inspired you to do a Soul Art journey?
Soul Art Day is a wonderful opportunity to focus on entering creative mode in community! These past few years have been chaotic, and it’s a blessing to be able to immerse myself in the art that I love, to express my feelings and ideas as they emerge, and to find solace and healing. Soul Art Day creates sacred space for that emergence to happen.
How would you describe your creative process?
I have different methods of art-making. I enjoy the spontaneity of abstraction, and letting the medium (i.e. paint, mixed media) take the lead in mark-making, pattern, form and meaning. I also approach the studio with fully-formed ideas that I try to quickly materialize before I lose the vision. Other times, I select an object – i.e. a box or shrine – and play around with layering mixed media, collage materials, fabric or found objects until a theme emerges. In terms of color (and reflecting my personality no doubt LOL), my work can either be monochromatic with the richness of earth tones, or full of bright joyful hues.

What insight did you receive from your Soul Art?
The intention and bodymapping of my Soul Art piece happened rather quickly, and I was extremely happy with the result. The retrospection that followed (the Soul Art Journey) was a more slow and meditative process, that took place over the days that followed. I had many insights, some from visual prompts and others that were more intuitive. With the greyscale side and colorful side so prominent in my piece, I was reminded of the opposites in life such as hot/cold, dark/light, action/repose, grief/joy, and birth/death. My key insight was the realization that nothing is permanent, and to not define myself by difficult times, as things are always changing.

What is the most important thing you would like to share about your Soul Art experience?
The Soul Art Journey is incredibly exciting, because there are so many different possibilities and potential outcomes! The 5 steps of the Soul Art Journey are wonderful guidelines in terms of self-discovery and healing through the arts. I am looking forward to next year’s event already!

​International Soul Art Day Gallery
Be inspired by hundreds of artists who submitted
art created on International Soul Art Day 2024!
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​Pegi Eyers is also the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores social justice, nature spirituality, the ancestral arts, and resilience in times of massive change.  www.stonecirclepress.com
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FIRE

6/16/2024

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PEGI EYERS
2024 Group Exhibition

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​My abstract painting entitled Transformational Fire is currently being showcased in the online exhibition FIRE organized by Gallerium~! FIRE runs from May 29 to July 29, 2024, and you can view the full exhibit here:
www.gallerium.art/p/fire-2024.html

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Transformational Fire
Pegi Eyers
mixed media 
15 X 27"

​A journey into the recesses of the soul 
The call of inner knowledge 
Ignite the transformational fire

​This work honors the element of fire as an integral part of the natural world, and how fire also manifests deep within all beings as the spark of life. The contrast between the dark and the light are featured, and in the foreground, the text appears within a trail of smoke held by metal grommets. "Transformational Fire" was created from various forms of paper hand-cut into shapes large and small, with mixed media using thread, stitching, texture, fibers and other ephemera.  
- Pegi Eyers

Gallerium proudly presents Fire 2024, a dual exhibition and publication to express the beauty, power, and importance of Fire by focusing on various aspects of this wild classical element.

Fire, a mesmerizing and primal element, has long captivated human imagination. Its symbolism is rich and diverse, encompassing both destructive and transformative qualities. As a potent symbol throughout history, fire has held an irresistible allure for artists and creators. It has been known a force that simultaneously embodies destruction and renewal, power and vulnerability, chaos and order. 

For this exhibition, the theme of fire provides a vast array of ideas and emotions, including elemental, emotional, trans-formational, cultural, mythological, environmental, inner fire, and abstract exploration.  

Elemental: Fire is one of the 4 elements of life as it burns, consumes, and recreates. Flickering flames, blazing infernos, or glowing embers are captured in this work. 

Emotional: The intensity of human emotions such as passion, love, anger, desire and energy are explored, using fire as a metaphor. 

Transformational: Fire represents change and transformation as it symbolizes rebirth, renewal, and metamorphosis. These works reflect on the cyclical nature of life, where destruction paves the way for new beginnings. 

Cultural and Mythological: Work that delves into the rich symbolism of fire in various cultures and traditions worldwide. How does fire play a role in rituals, beliefs, or myths? Stories of fire deities, legends, and ritual are part of many cultures, from fire-breathing dragons to creatures such as fire giants or the phoenix that is born of fire. 

Environmental: The contemporary relevance of fire is addressed in the context of climate change, wildfire, and its impact on our world. This art raises awareness and inspires change.

Inner Fire: Unleash the fire within! These works showcase how inner fire creates meaning, and forms our deepest motivations to make something unexpected or extraordinary. 

Abstract Exploration: Art that embraces the abstract realm, and conveys the essence of fire through non-representational forms, colors, and textures. 

Fire
SELECT WORKS FROM THE EXHIBITION

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"31 Flowertree Drive" by Madison Higgs

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​"Burning Embers" by  Amy Lund

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"Flaming Heart Shrine" by Deborah Kovacs-Sturdevant

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"Fire" by Kelly Robinson

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"Neoconstruction 4" by Olena Holub

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"Fire at Sea" by Amy Seton

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"Code Red" by Lesley Walker-Fitzpatrick

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"Lava Flow" by Wanda Tyner

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"Ironclad Trees" by Alessandra Donovan

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"Burning Tree" by Seraphine

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​"Native Grasses - In Harmony with Fire" by Candace Pratt

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​"Match" by Jon Otterson

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​Pegi Eyers is also the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores social justice, nature spirituality, the ancestral arts, and resilience in times of massive change.  www.stonecirclepress.com
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Our Fragile Forest

6/7/2024

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The theme of the Artisans Centre Peterborough's Artistic Challenge 2024 was "Our Fragile Forest" with art submitted from across the community.  The exhibition was open in the atrium of Peterborough Square, during June's city-wide First Friday Peterborough Art Crawl. "Best of Show" was selected by the jury, and the People's Choice winner was announced at the end of the evening. The level of detail, insight and creativity in this years' submissions was truly astounding~! Thank you so much to the organizers and participating artists for a successful exhibition. 

What is Old is New Again
PEGI EYERS
hand-carved linoprint blocks
chine collé with ephemera
The text is a Homeric hymn praising Mother Earth

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From the wisdom of the ancients to the devotion of Christian prayer, we arrive at the sacred, and the timeless worship of the trees.  What is old is new again~! 

Selected Works from "Our Fragile Forest"

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"What is Old is New Again"
linocut & chine collé
​Pegi Eyers
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"Green Lungs"
​tree bark & bisque
​Brenda Lee Barron
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"More Green Please"
thrown & altered pottery, seedlings
​June Goodwin
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"Requiem for the Ash Trees"
installation & photography
June Goodwin
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"Fox in Snow"
linocut, water soluble ink on paper
​Lyn Shaw
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"Connections"
mixed media
​Kelly Albin
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​Pegi Eyers is also the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores social justice, nature spirituality, the ancestral arts, and resilience in times of massive change.  www.stonecirclepress.com
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Forms From Nature in The Work of Georgia O'Keefe

4/7/2024

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ESSAY BY PEGI EYERS

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Georgia O'Keefe "Pelvis with the Distance" 1943
When Georgia O'Keefe died in 1986 at the age of ninety-eight, she had become the most revered woman artist in America, and left behind a body of work that was inspired by the land, and forms in wild nature. In her lifetime, a multitude of modern styles in fine art had materialized, such as Impressionism, Symbolism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Realism, Hyper-Realism and Conceptualism. But O'Keefe rejected all these in favor of her own direct and simplified, yet powerful studies of mountains, stones, earth, flowers, driftwood, seashells and bones. Her unique personal vision, linked to an absolute love of the Earth, directed her creative explorations in shape, colour, composition and meaning.  My own encounter with O’Keefe’s process of interpreting the natural world in bold and unforgettable images, has been an ongoing source of inspiration and deep connection.
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Georgia O'Keefe "Nature Forms - Gaspe" 1932
​Seeing Nature’s Beauty

Georgia O’Keefe was born in Wisconsin in 1887, and spent her formative years there and in Virginia, where her family moved when she was fourteen. She had a solitary nature, and according to early biographical accounts, a very precise, unique way of looking at things in her natural environment. She later studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Art Students League of New York. In 1916, while teaching art in Canyon, a small town near Amarillo, Texas, she managed to inspire her students with a passion for beauty, opening their eyes to the natural wonders that thrived in the surrounding prairies. On one occasion she arranged to have a small pony brought into the classroom for the students to draw, much to the consternation of the town officials.

While in Texas, O’Keefe spent many happy hours exploring the wide open spaces of the countryside, wandering through canyons and watching the changing sky. She made charcoal drawings of simple natural shapes and painted experimentally in watercolour, producing a series of variations on the “evening star.”  Finished pieces that she sent back to New York were shown to the renowned photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who immediately began to promote and show her work in his influential gallery.  A series of yearly exhibitions followed, and O’Keefe’s career as a respected (yet enigmatic) artist was launched.

On a trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1917, O’Keefe marveled at the bright desert light, wide plains, mountains, flat-topped hills, golden mesas and adobe architecture, and vowed to return.  As it turned out, the desert terrain of New Mexico was to become her refuge and inspiration in the years to follow. Working in New York, by 1923 O’Keefe had her first solo show featuring paintings of fruit and flowers, and abstractions inspired by the new growth of spring.  In 1924, Stieglitz and O’Keefe were married, but Georgia did not share his attraction to the city. Her paintings of the New York skyline were beautiful, yet lacked the warmth and vibrancy of her work that was inspired by natural forms.

Details in nature and inspiration from clouds, hillsides, woods and water, or other elements of the land, continued to be the focus of her fresh and energetic works, as Georgia was able to spend long periods of time away from the city at her summer home in Lake George, New York. She preferred the solitude of being in nature and the process of creative activity to socializing, exhibiting, or selling her work. In 1924, O’Keefe completed the first painting of an ongoing series of giant flowers that filled the canvas, reducing the viewer to the size of a hummingbird. This kind of work had never been seen before - the blossoms were not realistic botanical studies, but an expression of her reverence for flowers.

"I know I cannot paint a flower, but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey......my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.  When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for that moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."[1]
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Georgia O'Keefe "Poppies" 1950
Abstracting Natural Forms

Georgia O’Keefe carefully observed the shapes found in nature, and translated them into very personal, instinctual abstractions.  “The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint."[2]

Instead of the traditional academic method of representational painting, O’Keefe added freely-drawn or painted space, shape, line, colour and pattern to realistic detailing.  "If one can only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?"[3]
 
She tried to emphasize a depth of emotion in her art, and worked toward rhythm and compositional balance. O'Keefe's choice of subject matter expressed her empathy with natural forms connected to the cycles of life - shells, feathers, bones, stones, trees, hills, clouds, and the sky. Arrangements of landscape, fruit, flowers, plants, leaves, still life or architectural elements were painted clearly, simply and peacefully, achieving a grandeur and powerful immediacy. These natural forms were self-contained, elementary and timeless.
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Georgia O'Keefe "White Flower" 1929
Solitude in the Desert
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By 1929, Georgia O'Keefe was in need of fresh inspiration for her work, and determined to express her independent spirit, left for Santa Fe. She yearned to paint the western scenes she had missed since moving to New York, and immediately discovered that New Mexico "woke up her soul."  She loved exploring the wild, unspoiled terrain, finding pleasure in the silver-grey sagebrush, the purple mountains, and the vast expanse of desert.

The pure, radiant sunshine and the thin, dry air enabled her to see for miles in all directions, and made everything she looked at perfectly simple and clear. In the desert, she found dry, bleached animal skulls and bones that prompted her imagination, and much to the shock of the art establishment, created a series of detailed, surreal, evocative works. The desert ecosystem entranced her, and she discovered that the visual contrast between flowers and bones was beautiful and mysterious.

"When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home. I have used these things to say what is to me, the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it. The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive."[4]

She used the bleached pelvic bone of a cow in a number of paintings, capturing it in extreme close-ups, or setting it floating above the mountains with the moon shining through. Her paintings at this time were described by a critic as "ripe with beauty, touched by grace, and buoyant with vision."
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O'Keefe eventually bought an adobe house at Ghost Ranch, in her favorite territory near Abiquiu, New Mexico. She explored, collected natural artifacts from the desert (stones, branches, bones), and tried to capture the colour and texture of the nearby hills and cliffs on canvas. For many years, and permanently after the death of Stieglitz, O'Keefe was content to be alone in the desert wilderness she loved. She seemed to need very few people, as she had her house, her mountains and her art. However far she travelled in her later years, her deep connection to the desert - a kind of spiritual compass - led her back to Abiquiu.
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Georgia O'Keefe at Ghost Ranch, John Loengard, The LIFE Picture Collection, 1968
The Georgia O'Keefe Aesthetic
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Every phase of O'Keefe's work is unique, from her early charcoal drawings and abstractions to her flower and bone series, and all are personal expressions based on a fascination with shape and natural form. She was not influenced by any other artist or style, and was the first entirely self-motivated artist in America. When O’Keefe looked deeply into the earth and sky, and translated their elements into lyrical forms, she found deep meaning in nature and in herself. O’Keefe has been called a mystic, as her work is infused with a cosmic spirit, both in the immediacy of nature, and how organic objects are held within containers and boundaries.

​She was aware of the tree as a universal symbol of immortality, and the mystical and spiritual meaning of deep-rooted beings extending their branches to heaven. Her paintings of trees express this and more, as the soft focus of the upward-curving limbs hint at an other-worldly dimension. Her powerful, radiant flowers, vibrant and alive, and bold vistas of ancient landscapes affirm all that is sacred in creation. Each painting is a meditation on nature, and the compelling aesthetic of simplicity and peace. The concept of "less is more" is an apt description, for both Georgia O’Keefe’s art and her life.
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Georgia O'Keefe "Spring Tree No II" 1945
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Georgia O'Keeffe "The Lawrence Tree" 1929

Revised Essay by Pegi Eyers
Nature: Art, Myth and Folklore
University of Waterloo Course with ​Sehdev Kumar, 1995

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NOTES
[1] Michael Berry, Georgia O'Keefe, Chelsea House, New York, 1988; and
      Georgia O’Keefe, Georgia O'Keefe, Viking, New York, 1976
[2] Georgia O’Keefe, Georgia O'Keefe, Viking, New York, 1976
[3] Michael Berry, Georgia O'Keefe, Chelsea House, New York, 1988
[4] Michael Berry, Georgia O'Keefe, Chelsea House, New York, 1988; and
      Georgia O’Keefe, Georgia O'Keefe, Viking, New York, 1976
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
  1. Elmo Baca and Suzanne Deats,  Santa Fe Design, Publications International Ltd., 1990
  2. Michael Berry, Georgia O'Keefe, Chelsea House, 1988
  3. Megan Bice and Sharyn Udall, The Informing Spirit: Art of the American Southwest and West Coast Canada 1925 -1945, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1994
  4. Jan Garden Castro, The Art & Life of Georgia O’Keefe, Crown Publishers, 1985
  5. Frederick Hartt, Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Harry Abrams, 1989
  6. Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keefe, Washington Square Press, 1980
  7. Georgia O’Keefe, Georgia O'Keefe, Viking, 1976
FURTHER READING
The Georgia O'Keefe Museum
Georgia O'Keefe, On the Ghost Ranch
Georgia O'Keefe, a Force of Nature
Georgia O'Keefe and Friends
Official Georgia O'Keefe Group on Facebook
Adobe, Sky and Bones at Georgia O'Keefe's Abiquiu Home
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Pegi Eyers is the author of  "Ancient Spirit Rising:
Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community"
an award-winning book that explores strategies for intercultural
competency, healing our relationships with Turtle Island First Nations, uncolonization, recovering an ecocentric worldview, rewilding, creating a sustainable future and reclaiming peaceful co-existence in Earth Community.
Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon. 
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Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess

1/31/2024

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Book Launch Salon with Contributors!

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On January 13, 2024, the contributors to the anthology Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess gathered for an online book launch salon. Presenters shared excerpts from their essays, fiction and poetry, and discussed the inspirations for their visual art contributions. This volume is published by MAGO Books, and is the second in the Celebrating the Goddess series.

Section 2: Seeing With Inner Eyers
Four Icons of Willendorf - Matrifocal Art by Pegi Eyers  

"Our contributors individually and collectively take an audacious action to voice the conviction that we all are interconnected on a cosmic level. We mean not only interspecial kinship but also unity with intercosmic entities including constellations and deities. Seeking intercosmic kinship is salvific, not only to women and men but also to ALL in the matriverse (maternally perceived universe). Our goal is not just being awakened but staying awakened to the Oneness of ALL in the matriverse. We hope our readers experience the power of speaking truth (removing illusions) embodied in the essays, poems, fictions, photographic works, artworks, and art essays of this volume." Co-Editors Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D. and Helen Benigni, Ph.D

Section One: Understanding Intercosmic Kinship
Section Two: Seeing with Inner Eyes
Section Three: As Above, So Below
Section Four: Consolidating Matriversal Kinship
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Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess
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TESTIMONIALS

"More than an anthology or a collaboration, Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess is a collective project that addresses the most pressing concerns of our time, aiming to restore the kinship between all living things—including the cosmos—by a return to consciousness of the connection between cosmic and earthy patterns as expressed by the archetype of the Goddess—the Matriverse. The contents draw not only from the academic and experiential resources of the authors, but also from their creative and spiritual souls, giving birth to a volume that is both intellectually challenging and poetically inspired–a feast for the mind, the eyes, and the spirit." Mary Ann Beavis, Professor Emerita of Religion and Culture, St. Thomas More College

"This anthology is nothing less than a jewel in the lotus, a deep-delving, soul-tingling collection of amazing art, uplifting accounts of the censored, belittled, and erased wisdom traditions that brave women are now bringing back. Thanks to the book’s varied, rigorous, artistic, creative, intellectual, and academic contributions, we may all shape-shift, thanks to the recovery of original instructions, meant to heal the world from dominator culture. I loved it!"  Dr. Kaarina Kailo, fellow, the Archeomythological Institute, Scholar of Bear and Sauna mythology, Finland

Four Icons of Willendorf
Matrifocal Art by Pegi Eyers

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Iconic Willendorf 1

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Pegi Eyers is the author of  "Ancient Spirit Rising:
Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community"
an award-winning book that explores strategies for intercultural
competency, healing our relationships with Turtle Island First Nations, uncolonization, recovering an ecocentric worldview, rewilding, creating a sustainable future and reclaiming peaceful co-existence in Earth Community.
Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon. 
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Curandera

1/10/2024

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PEGI EYERS

My new passion for Ekphrastic Writing, as applied to my own painting entitled "Curandera." Enjoy~!
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"Curandera" oil on board by Pegi Eyers

Curandera
oil on board by Pegi Eyers

She is at one with the spirit of the cactus, and like old friends they support one another. Over time the wise Saguaro has given the curandera knowledge and plant spirit medicine. The desert is immense and stretches off into infinity. The air is still as the heat-baked earth holds memories of a thousand years. The curandera is listening. In a deep trance her body is content to know the land like her own being. She is in partnership with the elements of the desert, and the spirit of the Iguana. The Iguana is opening his mouth to speak. The desert is a circular dome and magic is brewing. Like a trail or ridge, the Iguana’s tail points the way into the distance, to guideposts of myth and memory. The sky is luminous with the colours of the sea, and smoke rises from the mesa like the afterthought of an ancient volcano. Around that bright fire, far off on the horizon, women join in a healing circle. The curandera holds the key to the mysteries on a chain of clay beads around her neck. Her traditional huipil blouse and turquoise earrings are expressions of her cultural traditions. Her skirt is lovingly sewn with cotton and lace by the women of her village. She holds the stories of the sun and knows the magic of the moon. In front of her, shards are left from an egg that has hatched a primordial being. In the space of no-place and no-time, the curandera is able to divine from the shards, as she seeks good health and good fortune for her friends and family. All beings, including the animals and ancestral spirits, are her relatives. Resting at the feet of the curandera - like a mirage – is a beautiful shell, so far from the ocean. The shell holds the secrets of the universe, and the beings of the desert are patiently waiting.

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SYNCHRONICITY
I came across this passage in a matrifocal book a number of years after finishing my painting entitled "Curandura."

CACTUS GRANDMOTHER
The Tewa-speaking Pueblos of Southwestern America are an ancient culture rooted deeply in the traditions, spiritual practices, and experiences of their ancestors. They look to ritual and ceremony as means of forging unity in the family and the village, as well as in the hearts and minds of each member of the community.  Cactus Grandmother, or Gives of Herself, figures prominently in the Winter Kiva ceremonies.  She represents deep-seated wisdom. The Hopi people were a matrilineal society in which women played significant leadership roles. Circling the sacred fire, this traditional Tewa song would be accompanied by drumbeats and sung by the elder women of the collective.

We bring you the gifts you love.
Then weave for us a garment of brightness.
May the warp be the white light of morning,
May the weft be the red light of evening,
May the fringes be the falling rain,
May the border be the standing rainbow.
Thus weave for us a garment of brightness,
That we may walk fittingly where the grass is green.

"Goddess Days: 365 Meditations" by Nancy Blair
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​Pegi Eyers is also the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores social justice, nature spirituality, the ancestral arts, and resilience in times of massive change.  www.stonecirclepress.com
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Self-Portrait in Red

1/9/2024

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PEGI EYERS

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"Self-Portrait in Red"

Digital Art by Pegi Eyers

Before AI was aggressively pushed into the virtual landscape, there were other digital art programs that offered special effects.  I used a blocky red tint on my own portrait, and then recently with Photoshop, filled in the background with a pattern of roses in black and white. 

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​​Pegi Eyers is also the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores social justice, nature spirituality, the ancestral arts, and resilience in times of massive change.  www.stonecirclepress.com
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"To Re-convene // To Shoreline" by Kim Kitchen

7/16/2023

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To Re-convene // To Shoreline sheds the trappings of modernity, and connects us with the primal and the real, both in ourselves and the land.   Pegi Eyers

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I was honored to contribute a curatorial essay for Kim Kitchen's astounding exhibition "To Re-convene // To Shoreline."  This large-format photographic narrative encompasses paradigms of body positivity, disability justice, feminine rising, ancestral becoming, ecopsychology, women's mysteries, and creative potential. Published in 2023 the hardcover catalogue celebrates Kim Kitchen's vision, and is a treasure of fine printing, gorgeous photography, sacred words, nature installation and empowering art. "To Re-convene // To Shoreline" is a major addition to the genres of Feminism & Sacred Land and/or Matriarchal Studies.

To meet up, to arrive once again, a convergence of being and becoming. The shoreline is both refuge and passage—one emerges from or enters through. To Re-convene // To Shoreline exposes Kim’s honoring of sacred earth. It offers a reflection in depth, perspective and experience, with appreciation and joy at finding ‘self’ once again in the natural landscape. It navigates ideas of separation—through illness, disability, lack of access, and ideas of return—through creativity, (re)discovery, community. It explores how our bodies can be covered—in safety, in isolation or in hiding; and uncovered—in kinship, ecstasy and determination.

Learn more about the exhibition ~
www.kimkitcheninthestudio.com/to-re-convene-//-to-shoreline 

The catalogue can be ordered directly from the artist ~
www.kimkitcheninthestudio.com/catalogue
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​​​Pegi Eyers is also the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores social justice, nature spirituality, the ancestral arts, and resilience in times of massive change.  www.stonecirclepress.com
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Fire & Water

6/3/2023

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WINNER, SECOND PRIZE!

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PEGI EYERS

On June 2, 2023 my cut paper and mixed media work "Descent I/Fire" won 2nd place in the "Fire & Water" exhibition at The Artisans Centre Peterborough~! Thank you to my co-artists,​ curator Leslie Gifford Cook, and the other organizers and judges of this amazing exhibition, that featured mixed media, oil & acrylic painting, fibre arts, sculpture, canoe paddles and the digital arts.

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                                          Descent I/Fire
                                   Pegi Eyers
                       cut paper, mixed media

The exploration of art created entirely from cut paper, both in large and small formats, is fascinating! From this simple and humble material, surprising effects can be achieved with texture, detail and shading. Each piece is painstakingly cut with scissors, and like a mosaic, individually glued into the composition. Working with positive/negative space and colour values, the many shades of red, yellow and orange are planned ahead of time to form a colour gradient. I also enjoy working with mixed media, and incorporate elements such as fibres, metal and stitching into the work. My overall concept is to honor fire as sacred, and to depict the energetic nature of the flames. The black overlay offsets the poetry, and represents the cycles of life and regenerative power of nature’s elements. The text - A Journey into the Recesses of the Soul / The Call of Inner Knowledge / Ignite the Transformational Fire! enlivens the spiritual importance of fire to human identity, and our entire Earth Community.

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"Descent I/Fire" by Pegi Eyers - cut paper and mixed media

Other works from the exhibition-

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First Place winner - o/c by S. Buckingham, from a scene near the Peterborough Petroglyphs
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Third Place winner - "Creek Fire in Fabric" by Katherine Peterson
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​Pegi Eyers is also the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores social justice, nature spirituality, the ancestral arts, and resilience in times of massive change.  www.stonecirclepress.com
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    The Art of the Turtle
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    "How Beautiful Life is When it Gives Us its Riches" ​Learning to Paint from Frida Kahlo

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    I Love My Vulva, Do You Love Yours?
    by Sylvia de Bejar  
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    A Song of Abundance
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    ​    Goddess Feminism Source Texts
    ​Compiled by Pegi Eyers 
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    What is Goddess Spirituality?
    ​by Pegi Eyers

    The Chalice and The Blade

    Societies of Peace: Matriarchies Past, Present and Future
    ​Review by Pegi Eyers

    ​The Thirteen Most Influential People in Women’s Spirituality
    ​by Elizabeth Fisher

    ​HARMONY ~ International Women's Day Art Show 2011

    Persephone Rising

    Pauline Johnson's "Easter" Revisited

    The Old Shes

    In the Beginning ~ Foundational Art Practice


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    ​ A song of abundance    .
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