Dear friends in the blogging world, Thank you so much for all your support and encouragement this year! Your presence in my life blesses me every day. As we celebrate holidays and close out the year, I wish you....
Author: Fragments of Light
The Experience of Being An Artist
There are days I love being an artist: those mornings when I disappear into my laundry room/studio and get lost in paint. I forget to eat and lose all track of time. My soul is renewed in a place of wonder and possibility, and it splashes over into renewed strength for the trials and challenges…Read more The Experience of Being An Artist
Loving You Still (Always)
I lie flat on my back in rustling shade, gazing at the wide-eyed blue eye of forever, clear as far as I can see. Then sneaking into the outer rim of my vision, billows of twirling whirligigs, shrouding the afternoon sun. I sit up, surprised, as myriad ripple across the sky, like laughter. The…Read more Loving You Still (Always)
A Unique Christmas Boutique
Last weekend a friend and I created an "art experience" with "A Unique Christmas Boutique." We emptied a couple rooms in my house and transformed it into a one day shop, stocked with Pamba Toto products, signs and furniture re-claimed and re-imagined, and my artwork. The people were most certainly the most magical part - my dear friend…Read more A Unique Christmas Boutique
Always (Love Never Ends)
It's been about five years since my Dad left this earth. His departure shocked me and shook me to the core of my being. Of kindred spirits, he was one of the closest. The current of mutual adoration running between us was so abruptly cut off, I was left disoriented and blind, suddenly lost…Read more Always (Love Never Ends)
The Other Side
"The light that is hard won offers the greatest illumination. A gift wrestled from bleakness will often confer a sense of sureness and grounding of the self, a strengthening proportionate to the travail of its birth." Beauty by John O'Donohue, page 79.
Shop Fragments of Light Art
Dear blog friends, Your following of my meanderings and encouragement means the world to me! Should you wish to snag a "fragment of light" for yourself or to give to someone you care about, a reminder that my Etsy shop, Fragments of Light Art, is open 24/7. There, you can find: Original artwork (I joyfully donate…Read more Shop Fragments of Light Art
Art Opening in Denver
The November night is cold and icy after the first snowfall of the season. I pull my coat tight around me during the short walk to the gallery, hand-in-hand with my husband. Isolated figures smoking a cigarette on the corner or walking a dog do not say hello. Windows without curtains yawn into small, beat up…Read more Art Opening in Denver
Joy Hunt
Sr. Fidence was like a beautiful rose in my hand, but her fragrance drifted just beyond my grasp as she stood there barefoot, her white-draped physical being unable to contain an other-worldly joy. I didn't understand her at all. I wanted to, desperately. How, in the midst of despair and hardship, hunger and lack, did…Read more Joy Hunt
Surrender
I feel his anguish as I paint. The hunger, the sting of salt, the despair. When there is nothing left to say or do, just shadows of essence barely clinging to the horizon. Then, the letting go. When every last vestige of control slips irrevocably into churning depths. When everything you fear most emerges…Read more Surrender
Colleen Briggs Images & Writing 