Painting with Ancestors

At the beginning of 2025 I participated in Suzette Clough’s online class, Painting with the Ancestors. Suzette developed Visual Medicine, a painting method of receiving images from the multiverse. She states, “giving birth to images…you are allowing the painting to come through you and to you.” In the process of allowing paint to flow onto paper one opens the connection to Ancestors of all kinds – our own kin, plants, minerals, animals, earth, water, guides, stars, sky and more. The Ancestors speak to and with us as we open to receiving and interpreting their messages. 

I am integrating Visual Medicine into my studio practices, which share a lot of the root beliefs about the sources of paintings. The images here range from 5”x7” to 7.5”x11”.