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When I'm creating, I am never alone.
From the first brushstroke, something shifts. The invisible becomes present — helpers from realms I can't quite name, beings who like to dance with creativity and play with wet paint. We work together, though I couldn't tell you exactly where I end and they begin. The experience is pure joy. And honestly? That's why I make art.
Over the years, my paintings have become mirrors — each one holding up a reflection of who I am becoming. I want to see myself in that mirror clearly. No filters. No inhibition. No self-judgment softening the edges of what's true.
This journey has taught me how to sit well within myself. How to let Self Love be not just a concept but a color I actually mix and use. Along the way, I've gathered certain pearls — hard-won and luminous — and I share them here, in case another soul recognizes something of their own path in mine.
What am I thinking? We're all on this same journey, whether we know it or not.
It's my hope that standing before one of my paintings feels something like standing before a window you didn't know was there — and suddenly, light.
The Questions That Drive the Work
For me, painting is a soulful excavation of life's essential questions. Paul Gauguin posed them best in the towering masterpiece he painted in 1897 — Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? — and I find they are no less urgent now than they were then.
My current series lives inside those questions. It is an attempt to understand how a painting might function as what I call a vibrational healing transmitter — a canvas that doesn't just hold color, but holds frequency. Light that doesn't only illuminate, but emanates.
I am constantly asking myself: what does painting want to be in our time? Can the artist reframe the canvas entirely — from object to vessel, from decoration to transmission? Can we build a new visual language for the 21st century, one that meets this extraordinary and battered moment with something equal to it?
Lofty, yes. Daunting, sometimes. But in a world that can feel mired in the weight of daily existence, this is the work that makes me pick up the brush every morning.
Where to Go From Here
If you're drawn to the beauty and pathos woven through the human experience — the full, unvarnished range of what it is to be alive in a body — come spend time with my large figurative abstract oil paintings.
Explore My Collection of Large Figurative Abstracts
If you're seeking the raw energy of emotional life — the colors of feeling that don't have names yet — my energetic abstract oils are waiting for you.
Explore My Collections of Large Energetic Abstracts
The deeper I go, the more the work surprises me.
My art has always moved fluidly, abstractly — following the current rather than charting the course. But something shifted when I stopped navigating by the mind and began following the heart's quieter compass, the one that points toward Spirit.
What I found waiting there, in that deeper interior, was geometry.
Not the cold geometry of textbooks and straight edges — but Sacred Geometry. Living, breathing configurations that seem to exist at the precise intersection of Spirit, Earth, and all living beings. As though the universe had been quietly organizing itself into patterns all along, and my brush simply learned to see them.
These forms have become my new visual language. Each painting an attempt to map something that was always there, humming beneath the surface — a beautiful, luminous matrix that connects us all whether we know it or not.
Explore My Collection of Higher Dimensional: Sacred Geometry paintings
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I look forward to connecting with you. In the meantime, may the work speak to something in you that's been waiting to be seen.
With deepest gratitude,
Ursula O'Farrell
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Ursula O'Farrell
Santa Cruz, California
