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vonda drees art

art that plumbs the depths of love

Tag: oil paintings

September 2

Posted on September 2, 2021 by vondadrees

I remember lying in the hammock, with my journal in hand, sketching the tree in 2014. Here’s a brief 4-minute… Read more September 2

August 22

Posted on August 22, 2021 by vondadrees

Before I begin with the images from today, I want to share something that was stirred in me during a… Read more August 22

August 19

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“Spirit meets us in the commons of life.” I wrote that in 2018. This morning I pulled up the definition… Read more August 19

June 16

Posted on June 16, 2021June 12, 2021 by vondadrees

How little we know of a sunflower’s promise to love and be loved. 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2020 “Seven… Read more June 16

June 14

Posted on June 14, 2021June 12, 2021 by vondadrees

I love a good acronym. Check out the one created to remember the names of the people in LEAD’s Peru… Read more June 14

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Instagram holds many seasons of my creative contemplation. It continues to be a place I share fresh paint & ink, and I'd be delighted to meet you there!

Among the thirteen, Smitten by the blue Image 1 shows my eight most popular Instagram images of 2025. It’s no surprise that four of them are from my Tree of Life painting. ❤️ I then took my own stroll through 2025’s art images and gathered eight moments that shifted something in me. “It’s so rare to find ourselves trusting—not in the systems or -isms of this world—but standing at a place where we offer our bit of salt, leaven, and light. Even then, we have no security that we’re really right. This means that we have to stand in… a place… where we are comfortable knowing that we do not know very much at all.” -Richard Rohr “What I am suggesting is that we come out of our castles of privilege and rejoin reality. Reality is a system of give and take, not just take—that makes it possible for the life of the whole to thrive and evolve. Remembering that we are connected to a larger story, even if we don’t totally understand it, is a radical act of trust and surrender.” —Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild, p. 157 “With abundant gratitude and openness, “[F]or a great spiritual truth to be true, it needs to be seen echoing through the physical, creative world.” —Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild, p. 159 “Wild spirituality invites us to expand the context of communion to include the wider sense of sacrifice that keeps the whole cosmic community alive.” —Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild, p. 155 “Love… is a response to the gift of life that begins with and then expands beyond the particular.” —Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild, p. 141

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