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Isle of Wight Festival Kidzone Collaborations

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For the last few years it has been wonderful to be invited to run a collaborative art event in the Kidzone at the Isle of Wight Festival. It is always one of the highlights of the year. I relish it. Two of my long standing students now help and we have a lot of FUN. My idea for the collaborations was something that had been steadily evolving for many years...... One of the most privileged things that I have experienced during my eleven years of teaching is to join with children and adults in working on THEIR art. I never started off as a teacher with this as my intention. I found my feet with students asking for what THEY needed from me, or something presenting itself very clearly. One of the very early workshops I did, a lady was very distressed with her work and as she left she crumpled it up and tossed it into the bin. Later that evening I dug it out, smoothed the creases and felt the need to continue with the pastel drawing for several hours until I considered it finished. T
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The Web of Wyrd. The Matrix of Fate.

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Much of the last 20 years has been about meeting people at The Oracle Gallery. There has been many interesting unfoldings and I've been privileged to meet  many incredible people. There has been a lot of conversation face to face but I've never really shared it with the wider world. One of my favourite days out is going to visit my friend Jenny in Freshwater. It's a fabulous drive along the coastal road from Chale to Freshwater Bay.... and then usually half an hours drive round Freshwater trying to find Jenny's house, which hasn't moved, but I  can never seem to remember where it is. The nub of our conversation as it turns out, was some throw away sentences at the end of a four hour talking rally. Roll back a few days previously. Days in the gallery take on all dynamics. It is like an energy vortex and I always forget that it seems to draw people in at lightening speed. There'll be many quiet days which involve me pootling about or being high as a kite w
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Location: Godshill, Ventnor PO38 3HH, UK
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Students art in progress at The Oracle Gallery

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It's always a fantastic experience to watch young people being creative. When you completely remove the subject and encourage them to create freely, the results are always incredible. By being completely in their joy, they become channels for such vibrant and expressive art. Without words, their art has the power to awaken many.....purely by the energy of it. Through working in this way regularly, everyone - whatever their age, develops self esteem, confidence, balanced mental health. They become happier individuals and it makes you realise how much uniqueness is stripped away from a person throughout their existence here. Without exception - 99% of the time, students arrive unable to express fully. It's as if they are broken somehow - and they are. Our system of schooling that drills everyone to be the same so that the correct box can be ticked, just isn't working. It's actually failing many. What everyone actually needs is to be connected to the ener
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Fun with colour - The Students Exhibition.

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The students exhibition is going fantastically well. People have come into the gallery from Switzerland, Texas, Slovenia, Cuba, India the Netherlands and from all over the UK. One of the beautiful comments has been - 'I've never seen spirit so openly displayed before.' People are being drawn in by the vibrant energy. It has been a real pleasure to meet everyone and conversations have been mind blowing. I love it when connection becomes one of higher-self to higher-self. Spirit to spirit. The confirmations, synchronisities, and learning are so rewarding. We've had lots of kids and adults come in and join us for group painting.  So far three canvases are being worked on and are looking great. It's so powerful when a group of people create together - the result is so much more than you could imagine. Whether it is meditating together or painting, a group energy sends a beam of light high up into the universe - like a beacon of light. This light energy th
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Universal

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I am universal. Everywhere. Interconnected. As one with all and everything I am the space. The space is my future made manifest. I am love. I am light. Divinity is my birthright. I am the I am presence that is God. God is within me. I am of God. I am Nicola but I am also nameless, no where, no thing, no body... Spirit. Breath. I am that I am
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Light of the World

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In our earthly journey we have the choice and conditions to evolve beyond ourselves from 3rd dimensional beings to 5th.  The first being within the box, the second being boundless. universal consciousness itself. Eternal. Beings of Light. Angelic.  In the no mind state, in a state of being love, we become channels of the Divine. 💜💛💚💙💗💜💛💚💙💗💜💛💚💙💗💜💛💚 When young people use to rock up in the gallery in a bewildered state - and a far behind the eyes look - I would know exactly where they were. I would also know that they had been guided in by spirit and that they need my help. There was always a beautiful soul connection that I could feel with all the students when they arrived and so often I could feel a pain from them. They experienced this because they were disconnected - as I had been - from source energy, from spirit. They had lost the language of love through countless lifetimes. I became aware that I had served other lifetimes with them and t
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The Self that is in Eye

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We are beauty, grace, and love and we are infinite. Through being love we transcend our earthly selves leaving our carcass - the case for our Ka or spirit - and journey between the worlds to higher dimensions. We are there and here at the same time. We are universal consciousness. We are ether. We are the angel looking through the key hole from another dimension. Our soul shines through our eyes as we recognise our truest nature and we see spirit in every body. To create is to heal. It is a by product of being creative, because when we are deep in creation we enter a state that is our super conscious mind, and deep seated trauma - anything that we need a further look at, will come back with our minds as we re enter our everyday world. It is clever that we function this way, and necessary. The more we create, the more healing we do on ourselves, the clearer we become until our art can deliver us messages - and we are still enough in our minds to hear them. Repetitive
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