Author Archives: andreatancrati

This heart is a contented growing heart. It’s big and getting bigger and sending out Fibonacci spirals of love into the atmosphere. It represents how anyone’s heart can grow and become bigger (in the metaphorical sense that anyone can feel and show love in bigger ways). Which makes the energy around us feel more lovingContinue reading “Growing the Energy of Love”

Sea turtles don’t mate for life I found this out while doing research for a commission I did a few years ago. My surfer son had just moved his family to Oahu, so I was lucky to spend a month or so there hanging out with his adorable beach babies. There was a whole thingContinue reading “Turtle Love”

This painting is about speaking words with love. Talking through our hearts, as in putting our heart where our words come out. Gentle words inform our environment. I think even plants, flourish when spoken to kindly.

If you know the song Bridge Over Troubled Water, you might remember the third verse. It starts out : “Sail on Silver Girl…” I did a handful of paintings with the theme of a bridge over troubled water. People can be the metaphorical ‘bridge’ over the ‘troubled water’ of another’s life circumstances. There seems toContinue reading “Silver Girl”

I have to title and do a write up about each of the paintings I have on display in the gallery in LaJolla. It’s a bit of an undertaking, but I feel like doing it on my blog might make it more fun. This first painting is one of a set of two. I hadContinue reading “Birds Fly Up”

to be around? That’s easy. People who are kind. Kindness is more of an active state than a personality trait as I see it, so I guess what I mean is, I like to be around people while they are acting kindly. I’ve seen enough instances where a grumpy someone switches to being kind, oftenContinue reading “My Favorite People…”

Growing up in Canada, hockey was part of life. My earliest memory is going to a game that my dad played in. I mostly remember being freaked out by the blood and all the men with missing teeth. I learned to skate as soon as I could walk. My hockey coach grandfather bought all theContinue reading “I remember”

For joy. For reasons that are bigger than what I know. I paint. Before yoga, before meditation, before I knew about breathing, before I’d ever heard anything about a parasympathetic nervous system, I painted. I paint to drop into a feeling of flow. I paint to feel connected to a better feeling me. I paintContinue reading “For Love”

It also has a wood shop. The house is one of a few buildings. There are guest houses. My residence is not too big, but feels very spacious. It’s very minimally furnished and decorated. High ceilings, light wood floors, lots of natural light from plenty of big windows. Good sized closets, easy organization. Open, wellContinue reading “My Dream Home Has an Art Studio”

I think I’ll savor it for a little while. Then tell G casually over supper.