Your life is your art
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Happy New Year 2016!
Over this past year and recently to prepare for the Goals Workshop I am co-facilitating later this month here in Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC I have been reading The Desire Map by Danille La Porte. This book is special because it's not just about setting goals, it starts to tap into the deeper drive of why we set goals: to feel a certain way. In the journey of the book and its adjoining workbook we get to know ourselves at a feeling level and start to discover why we want certain things. Most often we want certain things and desire specific goals in order to feel a certain way. Danielle gets us to the bottom of things and encourages us to determine our top four desired feelings. In realizing that we are predominantly desiring to feel these top 4 feelings... For example, these could be : Appreciation, Peace, Freedom and Creativity.
That being said, I loved this quote from the book “Your life is your art. When you make tough choices in favor of your soul, you’re making a masterpiece of your existence.” and so I placed it on an art piece I made last year.
The artwork in the background is entitled Freedom 60" x 40" x 1.5" Mixed Media on Canvas and is on display, available for purchase, and located downtown Vancouver, BC at Unit #1115 (11th Floor) 555 Burrard Street (Bentall Tower 2). You can make an appointment to see it and a number of other large original pieces by contacting Tarasch Rawjee (604) 306-4912 / tarasch@gmail.com.
I’m hunkering down for Christmas now and playing with making a few little paintings. I snapped a few shots during the process of making these paintings which I'm calling 'The Little Red & Green Christmas Paintings'. These are each the size of a big postcard, each of them painted on a hand torn piece of 300 pound water colour paper (giving them a deckled edge) with heavy body acrylic paints using a palette knife. I stared the series by choosing 3 parameters 1) colours - I decided green & red with a few other colours to punch it up 2) composition - I decided these would be a landscape composition 3) content - these pieces are about freedom, space, playfulness and experimentation. Enjoy the in process pictures! www.debchaney.com
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I am working on a wonderful creative project (currently the project is a secret to support cultivating my creative energy and momentum to see it through and deliver it to you next year!). In support of this project, I put a poll on 
I love this new painting I completed after teaching a 
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Life is constantly offering us millions of options, every minute. We have to make choices on where we are headed, and, unless we get clear for ourselves, we’ll be following the pack, or taking orders from someone else. In this one day workshop, facilitated by 
I received a beautiful email on FaceBook from a student who took one of my mixed media abstract painting workshop s several years ago. She told me that when she goes for a walk she does The SMIGLs Ritual with herself out loud, the one we did in class during that workshop, and how after all this time, it has stayed with her! We did this ritual again at the end of the workshop last weekend at the Beaumont Studios and I thought I’d share it with you in the case you haven’t heard of it yet. xo Deb
I received an email several months back from an interior designer here in Vancouver wondering where she could see my original work on display. Well, thank you! I love these kinds of emails as they make me feel so appreciated! I let her know that I have a number of displays of my original artworks up here in Vancouver, and that quite possibly she could make a day of it ; 'Deb Chaney Original Artwork Tour of Vancouver' !!!. You can too.
Here's the current list of Deb’s original artwork on display in Vancouver, BC :
