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Woman featured in Divine Feminine Group 31-8-09 / Woman featured in THE SISTERHOOD on the 26-3-09. Woman is an Acrylic Painting She She rhymes with ‘he’ ‘tree’ and ‘me’ / She is real and she is raw / She is beauty at the core / She is courtesan, amazon, madonna and mother / She is throughout history considered ‘other’ / She hurts but her heart stays open / She is instinct – she is knowledge / She nurtures by heart / She is sensitive / She is sensual and she is smart / She is loving from the start / She is soft – she is strong / She knows but still she powers on / She comes in all shapes, sizes and colours / She is delicate, fragile and playful / She loves her inner child / She mothers her children / She is sexual and she is courageous / She is red, pink and blue / She is resiliant / She breaks and puts herself back together / She is apple pear or hour glass / She has curves and she is deep / She has lips nose eyes / She has legs, breasts and more / She likes a room of her own / She craves to connect…be valued and seen / She has a voice and likes to speak / She is layered and she is mystery / She likes to take time to know you / She is more then what you see / She is grace under pressure / She loves to sing, dance, cry and be free / She loves to love and be loved in return / She is passionate and she likes to dance / She is at her essence about romance / She moves her heart in amazing ways / She is yin, the night and silver / She is moon / She is the red rose…pink heart…the green earth / She possesses an inner glow / She is a queen, goddess and princess / She is a wise old lady / She is a girl / She is woman. By Anthea Slade Woman By John Lennon (For the other half of the sky) Woman I can hardly express / My mixed emotions at my thoughtlessness / After all I’m forever in your debt / And woman I will try to express / My inner feelings and thankfulness / For showing me the meaning of success Ooh, well, well / Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo / Ooh, well, well / Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo Woman I know you understand / The little child inside of the man / Please remember my life is in your hands / And woman hold me close to your heart / However distant don’t keep us apart / After all it is written in the stars Woman please let me explain / I never meant to cause you sorrow or pain / So let me tell you again and again and again I love you, yeah, yeah / Now and forever / I love you, yeah, yeah / Now and forever / I love you, yeah, yeah / Now and forever
Lovers featured in THE SISTERHOOD on the 6-4-09 Lovers painted in acrylic
Hidden featured in THE SISTERHOOD on the 26-3-09. Dedicated to the Beautiful Sally Omar and her poem Hidden.
Insane or Wired or Brilliant? Brilliant Plath disappeared in her Bell Jar / Intense Vincent Van Gogh was labelled insane / And when he cut off his ear they cried he had gone too far / They cut poor Frances Farmers emotion out of her brain / And made her placid benign boring and dull / Angelina was considered already dead / Vulnerable girl interrupted accused of a lull / Her hurt was cold but her blood was red. Insanity was thrown in my face at 17 / When the high school boys shouted / My favourite artist Van Gogh was insane… / ‘He is not’…I found my voice / ‘He is sensitive, passionate, intense, / misunderstood…and Don Mclean had / it right on that Starry Starry Night / He took his life as Lovers often do… / I could have told you Vincent this world / Was never meant for one as / Beautiful as you. Ah the eternal debate… / There is a fine line between / genius and insanity…they say / and how closely do we step the tight rope / With so much mental illness today / Exposed…Depression, Anxiety, / Bi-polar…Obsessive Compulsive / Disorder…A mental health professional / recently advised that 9 out of 10 have / a mental health issue. / Are so few exempt…are these figures really true? With so much stimulation in the media, mobile, data / Sensory overload with iPods linked to our brain / Texting 24/7 with our mobiles we sleep instead of our lovers / Is the cyborg fantasy becoming a reality…? / in this wired generation? / Constantly on…we must be or we miss out… / We become fed by instant gratification / and stimulated by virtual admiration. / Addiction to this constant contact means that our / heads are overloaded with stimulus but / not given as much time to reflect, to think, to feel. We are becoming overdeveloped in responding to stimulus / and underdeveloped in knowing our own heart. / Strangers and outcast to our own feelings / Dependent on the hit and the high of the new / and losing sight of the bravery of the subtle and simple. / Craving perfection and the eradication of foibles / we photoshop out our character lines and faults / so that we fit into some kind of ideal of the neo post notion of beauty. Are not faults far more defining then some sanitised notion of perfection? / Are not our faults the real indicators of our individuality? / Is not our vulnerability a sign of our sanity? / Does not our sensitivity reveal that we still belong to humanity? / Taking time to celebrate and know the individual in their idiosyncrasies / Surely this is worth the effort rather then striving for some standard of / fantasy that can never be translated? I shudder when I think were we are headed / Man machine…woman machine…cyborgs half man half machine / I pray that disposable people, relationships that end with a click / of the key and people racing to rejection will never be the accepted. / And that the human mind, heart and soul will pause…think and / move the emotional muscle so that sensitivity can still survive / and link us together through heart and mind / right through to the end of time. So Vincent, Sylvia, Frances, Angelina and Girl Interrupted / Insanity does not seem to be able to define, / What really was going on in your mind, / As far as I can tell…you all could see, think and feel, / Oh that you suffered and were misunderstood / This cannot be denied but you were / real raw and achingly human in your pain / and there was no question of your humanity / Even if there was and still is a question over your sanity. To me you were brilliant, free, sensitive and intense / And by all indicators ahead of your time. / And I bow to your courage / to follow your own voice and live the / passion that was raw in your heart… / To me it is as if you just knew right from the start. by Anthea Slade 26-4-09
Would like to thank Alateia for the wonderful Shooters Gallery Event held Last Night – 27 January 2007. The models, photographers, location, the creativity and atmosphere of the event was first class. Troy – Male Dancer / Alateia – Production/Art Direction
Anthea – Photographer / Vanesse – Poet / Troy – Male Dancer / Vanessa – Female Dancer / Alateia – Production/Art Direction Joie de Vivre now works in collaboration with Vanesse from RebBubble beautiful poem “With You”. Please read her poem here and look at her other beautiful poems by searching Vanesse. With You I want to walk on a sandy beach / feeling the cool seabreeze / as it caresses my body / with the rays of the sunshine / warming me… I want to sit on a magnificent rock / at the peak of the highest mountain / underneath the tallest forest tree’s / with a cold crisp blanket of snow / covering everything around me… I want to dance / in the darkest desert night / under the light of the moon / and stars twilight; naked, / to the most beautiful / love songs written… But none of these would / fulfill me unless… / I shared them / WITH YOU!! By: Vanesse Cathleen
My painting Resistance & Surrender received a special PASSION feature in THE SISTERHOOD on the 16-3-09. Resistance & Surrender Longing and desire / So delicious, so ripe / Like a juicy blood red cherry / Ready to be eaten / The wetness and sweetness / So divine how can I resist? Desire so consuming / it places me on shifting sand. / I shiver. / Goosebumps tickle my chest and my mind / My heart is arrested / Overcome by the surge and / the magnet of attirance. / / I ache. / Body. Heart. Soul. / Pulled towards the subject of my affection / Craving and wanting to be as one. / / Should I resist? Should I surrender? But love just is. by Anthea Slade 6-9-08 /
This composition is the original version of Passionate i and uses a pic of Anthea Slade (pic used with permission). Anthea is an outstanding and an accomplished artist. Please visit Anthea’s artshop here . / / / / Passionate i / /
Shoot – Nude on Location 17-2-08 / Art Director – Alateia / Model – Mia
Creating Heart featured in Feminine Intent 16 Nov 09 My poem Creating Heart featured in Poetry and Beautiful Women 19 April 09 Creating Heart / / In that moment when our hearts break / We can choose to remain open / Feel our pain / or shut down. / / If we remain open we are raw / We scud through a plethora of emotion: / shock black, anger red / grief grey, growth green / love pink. / The odyssey of pain. / / Often the violence of our pain / makes us want to withdraw / like a deer, to lick wounds / like a hermit to fall within ourselves. / / If we choose to close down / We divert our minds / Our wounds stay open and / then become crusty and dry / And our heart shrinks, tightens, / and the creative flow…stops. / / If we stay open - / vulnerable…fragile everything hurts. / Looks shatter. / Words annihilate to red raw. / We crumble and fragment / And we bleed. / / But we survive if we live our emotions / We wear our feelings out until / our tears a continual waterfall on our / face wash the pain away. / And we begin to heal. / / Our divine inner child walks / and than dances again / Delicate fragile and raw / our heart breathes / And our creative flow continues / Vulnerable we can create and feel. / / And we grow and we reconstruct / and put our pieces back together / Raw, exposed and alone / we draw from our heart / to create beauty / Alchemists and transformers we / recreate ourselves in a new form. / / Naked, consumed in the act of creation / engaged and enraptured / we are consumed forever in / creating line by line / brushstroke by brushstroke / colour, line and form / uninhibited and free / creating beauty, creating life / ...Creating Heart. / / Written by Anthea Slade 14-9-08 Heart Series / Drawing One / 5-4-08 / Pencil and Oil Pastel
Collaboration with Anthea Slade / Me at 19 – Another Assignment /
Be Careful What You Wish For featured in THE SISTERHOOD on 23-2-09 Be Careful What You Wish For Why is it often that which / we long for is just out of reach? / Our internal conversation / How much should I reveal? / How much should I conceal? / Indeed the odyssey of mystery. / / Her beautiful face is half hidden / behind her arm / Her soft eyes closed / behind her lids / to block out the light of observation. / / Her soft pink body is framed / by the silk of her corset / textured and lined to follow her curves / Gentle and feminine and still / she beacons our eyes to see, our hearts to wonder. / / She is graceful, she has a secret / Her imagination is free / But she does not reveal the feelings / Her eyes only reveal her heat. / She smoulders without definition. / / Why does she capture our imagination so? / Is it because she is difficult / or impossible to understand and define? / Mystery exposed and mystery explained. / / Her secret so delicious / So surreal / Her mind behind her skin / is an adventure unknown. / / She reveals just enough to entice / But not enough to answer all the questions / She provokes us to think / She stimulates us to feel as / She is hidden and unexplained. / / Is she shy or is she sensual? / A muse or an artist? Or is she both? / Is her internal world her sanctuary? / A place where she truly comes alive. / Is she art painted, framed and / exhibited for all to see? / ...beautiful… / / Be careful what you wish for… / / / Written by Anthea Slade 13-9-08 / /
Wish You Were Here Drawn on 9-10-08 & 12-10-08 So, so you think you can tell / Heaven from Hell, / Blue skies from pain, / Can you tell a green field / From a cold steel rail? / A smile from a veil? / Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade / Your heros for ghosts? / Hot ashes for trees? / Hot air for a cool breeze? / Cold comfort for change? / And did you exchange / A walk on part in the war / For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here / We’re just two lost souls / Swimming in a fish bowl, / Year after year, / Running over the same old ground / What have we found? / The same old fears. / Wish you were here. Words by: Waters and Gilmour from Pink Floyd.
Know Your Own Heart was drawn on Sunday 16-11-08
A Knowing that…Passion Part V was drawn on the 29-3-09 Featured in Lifeline on the 14 Nov 09 Passion Part V A knowing that cannot be spoken / A love that cannot be broken / A fascination that burns / Flames that fire the soul / with the deep sensual hunger / Tormenting the heart / longing to embrace and engage another. By Anthea Slade
Chakra Goddess featured in CORE 14-7-09 Chakra Goddess was drawn on the 13-7-09 This is the third drawing in my Goddess series. Dance Dance to sweat my prayers / Dance to shed my tears / Dance to set my heart free / Dance to let me be me. Move to shift the emotion / Move to turn black to pink / Move to stop my blood boil / Move to open my heart to think. Maps made to ecstasy / Travel this odyssey of imagination / Climb step by step closer to bliss / Reaching close and closer to your kiss. Dance and I feel your lips all over me / feel my body come alive with sensuality / Lose myself inside the magic of your embrace / Music stimulates and my heart starts to race. Chakradance unblocks all my energy centres / Red: Primal, primitive and sexual / Orange: Sacral, emotive and sensual / Yellow: Power, clarity and fire / Pink/Green: Love of you…Love of me / Blue: Voice to speak my heart / Indigo: To see with my imagination and soul / Purple: To be one with the universe in spirit My heart expands…My mind explores / I move to a state of wonder and enchantment / And create a world of dreams. Five Rhythms takes me outside my stress / Flowing I move to the yin, the moon the ebb and flow / Staccato I connect to the beat of the city street / Chaos I release the wild fire in the pain the pleasure / Lyrical I dance of the siren, the playful courtesan / Stillness I meditate to silence that contains and embraces my soul. Belly dance gets me in touch with my inner goddess / with my tummy power and intuition / It enables me to know who I am / to move from deep within my feminine core / The power and passion and / confidence not to hide. Salsa to climb inside my sexuality / to touch, taste and feel the passion / to move my body to the steps / and to mirror the rhythm / And inhale the excitement of the beat. Deeper I go inside my soul / The more I enter the dance / the more that I feel whole / Fragments of colour, hue and tone / Seem to merge and create a textured art / Expand beyond my imagination / Move my body outside the limitations of mind / and into the state of trance / I feel the joie de vivre breathe in my blood / Oh my I just love to dance!!!!!! By Anthea Slade
Tree Goddess featured on the 16-7-09 in Divine Feminine Tree Goddess drawn on the 14-7-09 This is the fourth in my Goddess Series.
Mountain Goddess was drawn on the 15 July 2009 Mountain Goddess is my fifth drawing in my Goddess series.
Moon Goddess featured in the Divine Feminine 22-7-09 Moon Goddess drawn on the 16-7-09 This is the is my sixth Goddess Drawing in my Goddess Series.
Joie de Vivre Goddess featured in CORE 2-8-09 / Joie de Vivre Goddess featured in Divine Feminine 29-7-09 / Joie de Vivre Goddess was drawn 25-7-09 Joie de Vivre Goddess is the 12th drawing in My Goddess Series.
Passion A Collaboration between Reynaldo and Anthea Slade / This is the 11th Artwork of the16 Painting/16 Drawing Collaboration with the brilliant and gifted artist/painter Reynaldo. She Dances For Her King is a masterpiece by the wonderful artist Reynaldo. It is a great pleasure and honour to collaborate with such a highly talented artist and beautIful person. She Dances For Her King She dances for her King / She surrenders her heart to his heart / His admiration and love / opens her soul, a wild flower / she blossoms with red fire / that pulses in her blood / as she burns in love with his honour, / his trust, his strength and beauty / Heart to heart / Soul to soul / Mind to mind / Their dance begins… / / Oh Yes She dances in red for her King. By Anthea Slade Please enjoy. Painting: Reynaldo / Painting: Anthea Slade / Poem: Anthea Slade Specifications of Reynaldo’s painting are: 2009 Acrylic on 140 lb. watercolour paper 36×24‘
Passion Series A Collaboration between Reynaldo and Anthea Slade / This is the 13th Artwork of the16 Painting/16 Drawing Collaboration with the brilliant and gifted artist/painter Reynaldo. It is a great pleasure and honour to collaborate with such a highly talented artist and wonderful person. Garden of Love I had a dream sublime / that danced across my mind / I saw giant flowers in a garden tower / above two lovers dancing, There was sun flower / yellow and gold / Filled with joy amplified / full of stories still untold. There was a pink rosebud / innocent and pure / Waiting for her time to blossom / under the sensuality of his touch. Another was a crimson daisy / with petals outreaching / Longing to connect / and nurture through her teaching. And there was also big purple heart / that opened and radiated life / Speaking of spiritual connection to start / then followed the mind, body & heart Then there was a beautiful red rose opening / to full bloom under the rain of passion, / the breeze of trust, the sun of love and / the moon of romantic seduction And the lovers danced through the flowers / eye to eye, / heart to heart, / soul to soul, / They saw each other and they knew… They had found that elusive thing / a lover who knew the real in them and / could dance to the same heartbeat / until the end of time. And they glowed and shone and they loved / and all who dared to look / felt warm because they knew, / finally, this dream was real. By Anthea Slade Painting: Reynaldo / Drawing: Anthea Slade / Poem: Anthea Slade Specifications of Reynaldo’s Painting 24×36’’ on 140 lb on watercolour paper
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