Within the Dreaming Tree

Within the Dreaming Tree is a story about those spaces of remembering our path and how we arrived here. This is a space of creation and openings that fill us up and inspire our next steps. These pauses in life are where we dream our story as we look towards our future. Within this space of remembering and becoming, we explore those spaces in our world places that fill us up and bring us that sense of peaceful joy that invites us into new beginnings.
The wolf is a loyal companion who is always nearby as a protective guide and power animal. Wolf is a teacher who shows us how to navigate our world as we trust our instincts and move in the direction of our dreams.
Sunshine dances around as we know that magic is in the air in those quiet connected spaces where life opens and anything is possible.
As an intuitive artist storyteller, I love to explore images that are dream inspired and have learnt to step into spaces of trusting the story to unfold. I am drawn to The wolf as a personal dream guide and companion who has always lead me to safety and shown a clear path as I dream my world.
My art is influenced by images of connection that are inwardly focused as we shape our outer stories. I am influenced by the flowing dream images of Marc Chagall and the patterns of Gustav Klimt as well as contemporary artists such as Misty Mawn.

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Cheryle Bannon – Melbourne Artist – I love to paint calm happy art as imagined impressionistic nature stories that bring a feeling of calm happy spaces for the heart and home. Art is meaning making as a path to understanding our world and finding our way back to harmony and balance.
Available for PAINTINGS, COMMISSIONS, PRINTS of selected artworks and whimsical mixed media sculptures.
I am a mixed media painter and sculptor and have always been involved in the creative arts. I taught art in secondary schools for 30 years alongside regular group shows. I have been a fulltime artist since 2018, exhibiting in both group and solo shows.
I have artworks in private collections both nationally and internationally. I have been an artist in residence working with disengaged youth and in a primary school cluster project.

My intuitive art process is inspired by the random beauty of nature, animal wisdom and birds as a guided process that is a way of making meaning in a world out of balance. I explore colour and light through natural images that inspire emotional connection to our stories through the natural world. Colourful mixed media images begin with symbols and words that build the feeling and energy of the evolving art story. Art as visual stories evoke a sense of peace and balance connecting us to our world. I view art as a meditative process that is mindful and healing. I paint in a variety of sizes using layers of colour, texture and form, using a variety of media such as acrylic paint or watercolour. Art is built through the layers, with a variety of mark-making, collage, inks, pastels, crayons, and resin. The layers create a depth that invites us into the story imagery that comes alive within the art. We enter these visual stories as a participant connecting to the energy and feeling of the piece.
My art is a way to pause and explore the layers of colour, emotion and story that are an, honouring of the Earth and her wisdom. through exploring the depth of our personal and global connected storied worlds. Art is an exploration of inner landscapes and outer worlds as a way to connect to those breathing spaces that remind us of balance and flow.
Every beautiful moment brings inspiration and opens us to connections to our own calm happy heart stories.

www.cherylebannon.com