Angel of Fire arose from a portrait I was doing of Samantha O'Reilly, a beautiful mentor rich in wisdom and passion. In fact, it was she who taught me how to paint with passion instead of technique.
I tried really hard to make the painting look like her but it faught me all the way. I questioned my goddess as to why I could not do this painting. Her answer was to turn the painting around one day. Lo and behold, while I was fighting to shape the image according to my own agenda, she had created, without me even knowing about it, the perfect portrait of Samantha O'Reilly.
Samantha is a spiritual guru of the highest sort - powerful, grounded, utterly devoted to her vision of god, streaming in his energy every moment of her life. Yet, created by the negative space in her, as in the negative space of the painting, is a huge, winged nightmare shape tearing at her throat. A more perfect portrait of who she is I can not think of.
You can still turn the painting around and see what I had tried to create. Her face is still there. All I added to the upside-down portrait was her arm and the details of her face. The hair, the wings, the dress, the body language and the creature were already there so I left them untouched.
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