Oh to live and breathe the ocean, to dance to its song barefoot on the sand under a star filled sky, to live free and carefree with nature, to embrace all the magic of life with arms outstretched, to live with an open heart full of love…
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Liz has lived in magical Manly for five years, a stone’s throw from the beach. She has had a deep connection with the sea and its inhabitants, and an intense fascination with waves since she was a young child.
She spent much of 2009 on Belongil Beach, Byron Bay where she was regularly graced by the presence of dolphins and during migrating season, whales and their calves breeching.
Her work is inspired by the magic of the sea. To her, the power and many faces of waves rising and soaring forward to shore is a feast for the imagination, telling myriad stories about nature. If you allow yourself to sit in stillness and watch, you will lose yourself in them, become one with the ocean. Liz’s love and fascination of the sea and all that it embraces influences her work.
Through her love of yoga and its philosophy, she also paints lotus flowers which are symbolic of the possibility to survive times of adversity, something very close to her heart. The lotus flower begins as a small flower at the bottom of a muddy, murky pond. It slowly grows up towards the water’s surface, continually moving towards the light. Once it comes to the surface of the water, the lotus flower begins to blossom into the pure, beautiful flower that it is.
The lotus flower is a symbol for awakening to the spiritual reality of life.
In September last year, Liz fulfilled a dream from her early teens, and went to Hawaii to see the famous Pipeline on the North Shore of Oahu.
As she walked from the road down the sandy path onto the beach she was greeted with an unseasonal swell of 10’ waves. She spent hours sitting on the beach mesmerised by the beauty and force of Nature, witnessing magnificent waves rising and crashing on shore in sets. Her heart overflowed with joy as visions of spectacular waves formed memories that will last for the remainder of her life.
Liz took over 200 photos of waves, for her love of waves and also to use as reference for her artwork. Never will she tire of watching or painting waves.
For Liz, love is the most important thing in life. That love is everything that is Nature. Every day Liz sees the magic of life. Whether in beautiful Manly where the surf is a breath away, the bush a few minutes walk, or when she is in her beloved Belongil where the ocean is an extension of her backyard, where she sits on the beach to watch the sun fill the sky with its shining beams of light and colourful palette as it rises, where to her amazement a canopy of sparkling stars hangs from the night sky, Liz feels immense gratitude for the miracle that is her life.
The sea, meditation and yoga are one for Liz, the food that sustains her soul, her essence. Every day, she sees extraordinary in the ordinary.
Earlier this year, Liz travelled to India and spent four and a half months in Rishikesh and the Himalayan Mountains meditating and studying and returned home a teacher of Vedic Meditation. Check out her website: www.vedicmeditationmanly.com