Kimberley Simonson Art

It’s that heart of gold and stardust soul that make you beautiful. 8.5" x 10" wrapped canvas & mache

A wonderful piece commissioned to an incredible mom with such a big heart. This piece was a true gift to create - the words came from her and the image is of her boys in (from my perspective) the most adorable moment possible! - 20 x 24 ... Wrapped canvas, mache, acrylic paint, charcoal See more

When there's a fresh wound in your heart, keep it open until it heals. Air it out. Understand it. Dive into it. Be fierce enough to become it. If you ignore it, it won't be able to breathe. If you ignore it, it will merely deepen, spread and resurface later, wanting to release. And when later happens, it will hurt even more, because when later happens, you won't know what you're bleeding for. Remain with it until it clears, and watch the beauty pour into your openness. Remain... open to feel lightness. Remain open to feel free. - Victoria Erickson 8 x 10 sketch

Breath in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. 10 x 10 wrapped canvas & acrylic paint

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. 10 x 10 wrapped canvas, acrylic paint -... #painting #movement #blackandwhite #silhouette #art #yycart #dance #feel #trustyourbody #embraceyoursef #loveyourself #paint #acrylicpaint #body #light #dark #shadow See more

I was living to run and running to live Never worried about paying or even how much I owed Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time Breaking all of the rules that would bend I began to find myself searchin... Searchin for shelter again and again Against the wind ___________________________________________________ Latest commissioned piece 20 x 24 wrapped canvas, acrylic paint, epoxy resin

No heroes, villains, one to blame While wilted roses fill the stage And the thrill, the thrill is gone Our debut was a masterpiece But in the end for you and me... Oh, the show, it cant go on. 24 x 36

Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace. - Mata Amritanandamayi * * *... #art #painting #photorealism #blackandwhite #friendship #boys #artistsoninstagram #artist #paint #paintings #acrylic #contrast #custom #yycartist #yycart #photorealistic #canvasart #fineart See more

I love people who have been through adversity and heartache and obstacles as impossible as the sun itself. They usually make it out with hearts as warm as gold. Cores made of fire. Lives soaked with full intention. Hope like another morning. They know how to start again- how to walk through walls with palms wide open, and how to begin at the edge, and end. Those to me, are the best people. - Victoria Erickson

This world is not made of shades of grey. It is made of colours like azure and coral and emerald and marigold. But it insists on painting everything in black and white and fitting it into boxes that it understands. Do not do that to yourself. Paint your personality a million different colours. Leave them scratching their heads, unsure of how to handle the magic that you are. 12"x16"

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way;... But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the worlds broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! Trust no Future, howeer pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living Present! Heart within, and God oerhead! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing oer lifes solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. See more

Understand me. Im not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul 16" x 20"

My advise to you is to soften into the discomfort. Accept it. Know that its gifting you growth, fuel, and grit. Whatever it may be that youre claiming this year as your desire and dream. I wish you the comfort within the discomfort. The stillness within the unease. The softening within the stretch. And mostly. I wish you the match that lights and revives the fire to keep you going. Because you can. Keep going.

Dont bend; dont water it down; dont try to make it logical; dont edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. 8" x 10"

There are many different beats thatll awaken you from everyday hibernation. Find the rhythms in textures, in elements, in music, and movement. Allow yourself to be rocked by connection, by something greater than yourself, by all that propels you heart-first into the present and awaiting world, for then youll be moved even higher by doing, by being, by trusting your own heat, burning at the edge of your most primal desire. Surrender to the strongest pull youve known, and I promise, It wont lead you astray. It will bring you home. 16" x 20"

"She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasnt supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. - Bukowski 8" x 10"

Life is too short for pretend. Dont do things by halves as casual is a casualty, and time isnt renewable. Go deeper. Love with integrity and unwavering intention. Choose real. 16 x 20

Forests will always hold your secrets, for thats what forests are for. To separate and hide things. To protect, to comfort, to hold, to envelop, to demonstrate, to slow down, to hold, to teach. Go to the trees to explore your questions and dreams. Go to the trees to desire and seek. The world will listen as you walk, watch, soften and breath.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. -Shakespeare 2 x 4... See more

You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. - Charley Chaplin 24" x 32" ... See more

77 Love Sonnets - Nude Study Garrison Keillor When my body and your body Lie together under a white sheet... Your head on my arm Your leg thrown over my leg The whole long continent of you The pale ridgeline of your ribcage and hip and thigh Neighbour to me There is nothing that needs to be explained Or accomplished, the world is at rest and complete And though We drift apart in the eddies of the day We will find our way back To the slight hollows that mark the place Where we lie now, astonished, saying nothing See more

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more,... From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can neer express, yet cannot all conceal. #lordbyron #poetry #sketchbook

Although I do love oceans, deserts, and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with the sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, see more, to become more. 24" x 30" #mountains #acrylicpainting

Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gently. I want to live with primal intuitive decision, yet also wish to sit and contemplate. This is the messiness of life - that we all carry multitudes, so we must sit with the shifts. We are complicated creatures and ultimately balance comes from this understanding. Be water. Flowing, flexible and soft. Subtly powerful and open. Wild and serene. Able to accept all changes yet still led by the pull of steady tides. It is enough. 16" x 20" #victoriaerickson #mixedmediaart

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be. 18" x 24" @angelaviolini ... #artwork #commissionedart #photorealistic #mixedmedia See more

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once mor...e the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring lifes morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins lifes joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find arts nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion. This is real worship. #RobertIngersoll #thoughts #religion #sketchbook

Rather than fearfully shutting down your sensitivity, dive in deeper into all possible feeling. As you expand, keep only those who are not afraid of oceans 16" x 20" #victoriaerickson #yoga #mindfullness

Perhaps everything terrible in this world is in its deepest being something that is helpless, that wants help from us. #sketchbook #compassion

When the roots are deep, theres no reason to fear the wind. 20" x 24" #truelove #photorealistic #acrylicpainting

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.... 8" x 10" #khalilgibran #speaktousoffriendship

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people. 16" x 20" #bukowski #portrait #blackandwhite #cubana

We were together. I forget the rest. #whitman #sketchbook

If you inherently long for something, become an artist. If you want gardens, become a gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint. If you want to be valued, respect your own time. If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself. This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch. Just because you are soft, doesnt mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour of gold. #mindfulness #yoga #art

Evaporates the love lakes of my soul Clouds my thoughts and rains you into existence As I take flight on bolts of lighting Claiming chaos as my concubine and you as my me ... I of the storm you of the sea We of the moon land of the free What have I done to deserve this? am I happy? Happiness is a mediocre sin set for a middle-class existence I see through smiles and smell truth in the distance Beyond one dimensional smiles and laughter Lies are hereafter where tears echo laughter Youd have to do math to divide a smile By a tear times fear equals mere truth. I simply delve in the air and if thats the case, All I have to breath and all else will follow, Thats why drums are hollow, and I like drums drums Are good but I cant think straight I lack the attention span to meditate My attention spans galaxies here and now are immense Seconds are secular, moments are mine, Self is illusion, musics divine. Noosed by the strings of jimmys guitar I swing purple hazed pendulum Hypnotizing the part of I that never dies #untimelymeditations #saulwilliams

Shine like the whole universe is yours . #yycart #artoftheday

Release the need to control and instead surrender to your own natural rhythm. #victoriaerickson #mixedmediaart #creativity

In French, you dont say "I miss you". You say, "tu me manques", which is closer to "you are missing from me". #sketch #yycart

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to be more than all the print I have read in my life. . #whitman #arcrylicpainting #yycart