Message of The Grail Bearer: There is nothing under the Heavens that does not blaze with Love. (mixed media/Arches Paper 2024)
Jaff Seijas Archive
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Suddenly, Everything - all works goauche/oil pastel/Arches paper 2024
There was turbulence. Then a feeling that suddenly everything, visible & invisible was connected...followed by, Divine Nonchalance.
Sea Dreamer's Sea Stories
How Green (was) My Valley?.
Climber & the Ever-Changing Vista... (I still haven't found what I'm looking for)
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Ozymandias & Other Large Works on Paper
Ozymandias - A very large work on paper (approx 5x7ft.)
a size reference pic.
Friday, January 26, 2024
My Myths (not theirs)
All works on paper - click image for larger view
The Birth of Mercury
Narcissus & how he became St. Narcissus
The Birth of Venus or, She unfolded in Simultaneity
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Two works a long time evolving in development
I began this large oil painting (4x5 ft.) in 2011 and could never quite complete it. Every so often I would take it from its storage space and review it. Sometimes I would make sketches and jot down ideas, but never resume. Finally in January 2024 I resumed working on it and finished...13 years later.
Arrival at the Font of Wisdom.
I produced this large work on paper during my sabbatical in North Carolina, summer of 2022. I very much liked it in its initial stages but knew that I had yet to bring it to completion, so I set it aside. I did have an original sketch but could never bring myself to add the figure of the soul flying upward into the sky-scape. In January of 2024 I finished it.
Miracle by the Sea (mixed media on Arches paper)
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Portraits from Elsewhere 2023
all work - mixed media/Arches paper
A wave unfolds the Seer's scrolls... haoled by sea and sky.
She invites my touch...if I promise not to change her..
How she found herself.
Woodsman - (on maple veneer)
Her epiphany at Owl & Pussycat Lake
Her Outpouring at Comet Falls
Her Inpouring at the Source
Friday, December 1, 2023
2023 pieces - songs, reflections, and memories
"People ask me how I've changed. I say, "It is a singular road & the lavender has stained my skin and me strange."
(mixed media/paper/2023/inspired by Nick Cave's song "Lavender Fields").
Monday, October 30, 2023
Dispensations of Destiny 2023
Large Paper Works/ Mixed Media/ 2023
The Ceremony - What We Were & Shall Be - (3ft. 6 x 6ft. 4)
The Passionate Oracle
What he will be
What she will be
Say Goodbye to all that....
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Instances of Limitless Potential to Signify - 2023
2023 (mixed media on paper)
click image for larger view.
Empathy Bridge (Diptych)
Calling forth the δαίμων
In a moment of inner clarity she recalled the source of her strength.
This is the second work of this series in which I have used the Nike-of-Samothrace...as a symbol of hope and strength. She has an extra wing here and has stepped out of her boat....The Woman in foreground is in touch with her own feelings of power and Hope....
When the sleeping giant is 'roused..many uncanny occurrences manifest.
This piece is about primal energies welling up and bursting out of pent up recesses...like the volcano. The uncanny occurrences are caused by attempts, both distorted and clarified, as we interpret and deal with the unsettling effects of transformation on our lives. The fallen statue in ruins, the Janus-headed figure, the weird little lion and turtle, all represent unexpected manifestations.
Icarus Re-interpreted.
In
the myth Icarus was punished for his ambition by flying too close to
the sun. But are not man's ambitions, curiosity, and natural
inclinations, also the source of his more altruistic and inspired
impulses? In my re-interpretation the big white feather represents one
of Icarus' more noble aspirations and has saved him from from being
dashed to the earth...instead he lands on his own two feet, unscathed.
She surrendered her fears to the great unknown with but one hope...that her beauty was also her strength.
Ophelia remembered.
“Even truth can be deceptive, whatever its appearance.”
―
Karl Jaspers
Nature Boy and Birth of the Imagination....
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Lifting The Veil – color works & Assemblages 2023 –
Unseen but not Forgotten - assemblage - mixed media/paper
Love took them Deeper - assemblage - mixed media/paper
The Arrival - assemblage - mixed media/paper
Leda's Lost Egg - assemblage - mixed media/paper
Ritual to dispel Chaos - assemblage - mixed media/paper.
The Wordless Conversation (mixed media triptych on wood panels).
How they found themselves and each other . (mixed media triptych on wood panels).
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Lifting the Veil series - black/white and gold series - 2023
Always more than the eyes see..
mixed media/Arches paper
Tugging at the dimensional threads.
oil/canvas
Friday, July 14, 2023
Monday, May 15, 2023
2023 Fantasy Landscapes - paintings
Night, those magical woods behind Chateau Roussan (24x30 oil/canvas).