Happy new year 2021... in artwork!

​Looking back on the year 2020, I realized with gratitude how much I was inspired for my series of paintings The Secret Place: Re-centering, Dance in the Rain, Rest, Transformation I and II, Celebration and Healing on which I'm currently working.

Re-centering 
When everything stirs and shakes within us, when the uproar around us is deafening and destabilizing, a sheltered place, a secret place, an inalienable core remains deep in our soul. By refocusing on this place, re-centering on the essential of our being, where the Essential, the Supreme Being speaks to our heart, His peace can take over and invade us.

                                                       Dance in the Rain 
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain.” Seneca. Whatever the external circumstances, disasters natural or not, epidemics, economic fluctuations, and even relational difficulties and betrayals, we can dance, as protected in a bubble, not in ignorance and naivety, but a bubble of confidence in the One who loves us and will always be there for us.

Transformation
The events that are happening to us become entangled and their superposition changes their color, their content, their intensity. Each of them changes our being, our character. They transform us little by little. We are currently in an airlock, a space where life as before will no longer be possible, and where external circumstances shape and transform us to allow us to apprehend the future differently and hopefully more healthily and serenely.

                                                              Transformation II
From the original blood-red, since birth, each colored 'line' represents an event over time. Some events in our life are negative and they darken it with sadness, but if we choose to learn from them, to find gold, and allow ourselves to be transformed by each of them - positive or negative, happy or unhappy - we can gradually regain our original purity. Painting to be ‘read’ from top to bottom.

Rest
Babouches, which symbolize rest in the intimacy of our home. I dreamed of this painting at night, hence its somewhat ... incongruous appearance! Feathers, for comfort and lightness, on a Heaven blue background. We need physical rest, but also psychic, emotional rest. That rest that comes with the reassurance that we are not going through life alone. God never promised us that we would not have difficulties on this earth, but he did promise to always be by our side to face them.

                                                                         Celebration 
Life is worth celebrating, and even more so is the One who gave it to us! The profusion of confetti and multicolored streamers symbolizes the party, with music in the center, without which no party is worthy of the name! The music notes are the original sheet of the song 'Je te célèbre’ (I celebrate you) created by my friend Stéphanie Küffer (to listen to on Spotify or Deezer - album 'Je te célèbre' by the Blue Collectif - or an extract) and where I also sing. Each confetti is a matter of gratitude, joy and rejoicing! The three silver lines which come down from Heaven represent the Trinity.

Healing 
​In progress when I ‘caught’ the famous coronavirus ... Irony of life! I am indeed healed, although going through this covid-19 was not easy at all! A picture of the painting will follow when finished...
 
But of course, let each of the paintings speak to you personally! Each of us has his own interpretation...
 
These are the choices that I am making and that I wish you to make in 2021: refocus on the Essential when everything is uproar in you and around you, dance in the rain despite the threats hanging over you, let you be transformed despite the impossibility of going back and being able to visualize what will be next, stay in rest in the One who loves you and cares for you, and with thankfulness, celebrate Life and the One who gives it!

Fullness of joy in 2021!