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NO MAN IS BRAVE THAT HAS NEVER WALKED A HUNDRED MILES. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU ARE, WALK UNTIL NOT A PERSON KNOWS YOUR NAME. TRAVEL IS THE GREAT LEVELER, THE GREAT TEACHER, BITTER AS MEDICINE, CRUELER THAN MIRROR-GLASS. A LONG STRETCH OF ROAD WILL TEACH YOU MORE ABOUT YOURSELF THAN A HUNDRED YEARS OF QUIET INTROSPECTION.

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

BEAUTY IS ETERNITY GAZING ITSELF IN A MIRROR
― Kahlil Gibran

BEAUTY IS ETERNITY GAZING ITSELF IN A MIRROR
― Kahlil Gibran

A MAN SEES IN THE WORLD WHAT YHE CARRIES IN HIS HEART

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LET YOURSELF BE DRAWN BY THE STRONGER PULL OF THAT WHICH YOU TRULY LOVE ― Rumi

Memories from a trip through Sedona, AZ.
Painting available as prints or original artwork.

Colorful sunset after storm. Near Wall, Badlands in South Dakota,.
Painting available as prints or original artwork.

This new painting was inspired on a drive from Flagstaff to Winslow AZ last summer during a storm.
Painting available as prints or original artwork.

Wishing everyone lots of Creativity and Happiness for the 4th of July!

I am having a up to 50% off SALE on ALL original paintings, and prints from my "on SALE" gallery! For original paintings please send me a message and for prints please use following discount code ALKNZC.

Now is the time to purchase your favorite paintings!

Greetings,
Susi Galloway

Our recent trip to the Southwest left me inspired.The widen open spaces, the colors and other worldly landscapes this country has to offer never cease to amaze me. Working currently on a series. Painting available as prints or original artwork.

Autumn is just around the corner. This new painting was inspired by a shot taken by a friend while in Russia. How could anyone restist painting that face and expression? Available as prints or original artwork.

Atargatis is an Assyrian Godess that transformed herself into a mermaid out of shame for accidentally killing her human lover.
Living so close to two major oceans, one should at least paint one mermaid. I am not sure if she lives in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic.
Ask divers and fisherman, they should be able to tell... :-)

The Fantasy Phantastic and Surrealism - Contest completed a few days ago. With over 300 image submissions it was a very popular contest with some amazing artwork submissions.

Congratulations to the top 3 winners, very well done!

1. Place - Pedro L Gili



2. Place - Nathalie Chavieve



3. Place - - Nathalie Chavieve


Ye can see the other top contestants here.
http://fineartamerica.com/contests/fantasy-phantastic-and-surrealism.html?tab=leaderboard


If you are into fantasy Phantastic and Surrealism please consider also joining our group at
http://fineartamerica.com/groups/fantasy-phantastic-and-surrealism.html?tab=overview

A Special Card, designed by the Artist for You, to give to your Special People!



other cards available here...

My painting titled "BEYOND THE RAINBOW" is up for vote at Bao Bao Bags.com. If it wins it will be used as a design on their cool bags. To vote please visit http://artistsusig.blogspot.com Thank you. :)

New Painting:

One might call this hauntingly beautiful...but I let you be the judge... I've titled it ENIGMA

Or as one viewer beautifully put it:
"It signifies life and death working together.....one can not exist without the other.....both admiring each other in mutual respect"

Just posted a new edition of my paintings video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmvXoBJCblU

It contains several new paintings plus some of my older work. --- ENJOY!

To purchase prints please visit http://fineartamerica.com/customshop/susi-galloway.html

I will be your fire
when passions grow cold
and faces gaunt with despair
to warm your senses
like colors
of newborn Spring,
like orchids
blossoming
in air, or
whetting cries
of the heron's romance,
to dreams
oozing
from your still eyes
before dark night is dead.
~
Forbidding shadows,
lost loves appear.
How they tease the mind,
impale a fragile heart.
But I, your jinni-
as ubiquitous gods
saved ancient day
shall cloak you
in the mysteries of my might
and by my duty
keep vigil at your side
until ominous night
is safe.
~
Make me your harp!
Even
as the waters sigh.
What if my waves
are crashing
like its own.
The passion
of our tone
will wash harmonies
so sweet upon the reeds
that lost stars be seen
and forsaken winds
relinquish
their pleas.
~
The glades of gloom,
dark antipathies flee,
and love reborn
out of the dying eve.
~~

Poem by Francis Don Daniels
Copyright 2010 Francis Don Daniels. All Rights Reserved
Donny can be contacted at http://thetaplay.blogspot.com
~~
Print of the image can be obtained at
http://susi-galloway.artistwebsites.com/featured/mistress-of-the-glade-susi-galloway.html

I will be your fire
when passions grow cold
and faces gaunt with despair
to warm your senses
like colors
of newborn Spring,
like orchids
blossoming
in air, or
whetting cries
of the heron's romance,
to dreams
oozing
from your still eyes
before dark night is dead.
~
Forbidding shadows,
lost loves appear.
How they tease the mind,
impale a fragile heart.
But I, your jinni-
as ubiquitous gods
saved ancient day
shall cloak you
in the mysteries of my might
and by my duty
keep vigil at your side
until ominous night
is safe.
~
Make me your harp!
Even
as the waters sigh.
What if my waves
are crashing
like its own.
The passion
of our tone
will wash harmonies
so sweet upon the reeds
that lost stars be seen
and forsaken winds
relinquish
their pleas.
~
The glades of gloom,
dark antipathies flee,
and love reborn
out of the dying eve.
~~
Poem by Francis Don Daniels
Copyright 2010 Francis Don Daniels. All Rights Reserved
Donny can be contacted at http://thetaplay.blogspot.com


Print of the image can be obtained at
http://susi-galloway.artistwebsites.com/featured/mistress-of-the-glade-susi-galloway.html

This is one of my more recent paintings. Poet Francis Don Daniels was inspired by it and wrote following Ekphrasis. (An Ekphrasis or ecphrasis is the graphic, often dramatic description of a visual work of art).

A link to Donny's website can be found at the bottom of the page.

Artwork is available at http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/-amazing-ekphrasis-by-poet-francis-don-daniels-on-my-painting-sirens-lure.html




Pictures winged

in three dimensions

before my eyes,

dartling

one and then the next

a panorama of existence

soaked

with emotions

I could not explain.

~

A glimpse

first here

then there,

a familiar likeness

while others

too odd and strange.

~

Was this yet

another conjure

of the siren,

or the quandry

of modern man?

~

The pictures flashed on

as if to tell

the story

of the hourglass-

a cinematic journey

of whom and where

I'd been.

~

Places vague and unknown,

persons with foreign tongues;

Universes amongst the stars,

worlds cast somewhere beyond;

A man devoted to the Arts,

A man who's waging wars;

A man of indelible strength,

A man of pitiless flaws.

~

Before my eyes

plunged

impinging pain

of the lapses of life.

Before my eyes

poured

the meanness

I'd become.

~

And her face

the tears

gently trickling

in tiny beads

down her cheeks.

The sadness

in her crystal eyes

that now

pangs

my tortured heart.

~

No matter how hard

I tried, I

could not stop

the onslaught of pictures

revealing

in blatant color

my frailties, deceit

and lies.

Until

at last,

I reconciled

the upheavel

of my transgressions.

~

A dichotomy

as clear as

duty and omission,

as clear as

the artist

and the thief.

To realize my pain

and suffering

came not from her resentment,

but from my own demise.

~

That my wounded cries

were of my own affliction,

the hourglass

my empty sands.

~

Woman

of infinite beauty.

~~

Poem by Francis Don Daniels
http://thetaplay.blogspot.com

This new painting was inspired by many trips to Florida's Everglades and other wetlands. It is available as cards, posters and prints at http://fineartamerica.com/featured/mistress-of-the-glade-susi-galloway.html

















In Nature's pieces still I see
Some error that might mended be;
Something my wish could still remove,
Alter or add; but my fair love
Was fram'd by hands far more divine,
For she hath every beauteous line:
Yet I had been far happier,
Had Nature, that made me, made her.
Then likeness might (that love creates)
Have made her love what now she hates;
Yet I confess I cannot spare
From her just shape the smallest hair;
Nor need I beg from all the store
Of heaven for her one beauty more.
She hath too much divinity for me:
You gods, teach her some more humanity.

~ A Divine Mistress by Thomas Carew

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." ~ Abraham Lincoln

3 of these images are hanging in downtown Clearwater as street banners in Celebration of Indepence Day. They will be available as prints, posters and cards soon.

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