10.5' high; 9.5' wide.
Spirit of Life, created in 2003 to celebrate five years of Life after Breast Cancer, reflects the artist’s personal spiritual journey and affirmation of Life and faith. It depicts the energy of the Creator cradling, nourishing and cherishing the various life forms around us. This Life Force pours in and flows around us, harmonizing chaos into order and gathering at last in a central core of Being, the perfect balance, the Yin Yang. The piece illustrates and was inspired by William Wordsworth’s poem of 1798, Lines composed above Tintern Abbey, a lifelong favourite and credo of the artist.
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought
And rolls through all things.