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ALWAYS LEARNING
EVER EXPANDING
ENDLESSLY EXPRESSING
Creativity is Harmony Eccles' constant companion as she seeks to hear, understand and express her surroundings. Painting is her greatest teacher. Design gets her out of bed in the morning and keeps her awake at night.
PAINTINGS
PAINTINGS
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Overview: 16x20 inches: $550 w/o frame
Focusing on the issues which weigh on us in the moment can often be our default setting. This painting invites us to see with an aerial view - an overview. Our current circumstances are only a part of our overall story. Seeing from above helps us understand the greater picture.
New Years Hope: 24x36 inches: $850 w/o frame
Balance in life is critical to healthy living. This piece is an expression of balance in color, composition, contrast, and shape to reflect giving attention to our mind, ours spirits, our emotions and our physical well-being. This artwork celebrates the calm we can experience by a visual representation of balance.
Retrospective: 15.75x15.75 inches: $325 with white frame
This past year was marked with growth, change, story and progress. There were many defining moments which opened opportunity or change. Courage accompanied each day and I can look back with gladness at what has unfolded.
Making Connections: 27.5x31.5 inches: SOLD
If I place myself in the most complex lower right of the canvas where the blue rectangle sits, it seems to represent where I’m at - In the middle of it all. I can look at the past and makes sense of how things have connected, intersected and formed together as symbolized by how the lines and spaces connect beneath and around the blue. But the future (the pink and white above) is open, waiting. There are a few lines that signify the path ahead but little is clear. The space welcomes the mystery. I cannot completely control what is to come. But I’ll do my best to build this future one step at a time as I listen to wisdom, discernment and direction. Each step will help me put the past step in perspective.
In The Deep: 18x36 inches: $650
Combining paint
An intertwining fate
Where conversation begins and friendship forms wings
Soaring together through valleys and amidst the clouds
Emerging with strengthened insight
A hope filled resound
An intertwining fate
Where conversation begins and friendship forms wings
Soaring together through valleys and amidst the clouds
Emerging with strengthened insight
A hope filled resound
Making Room: 24x36 inches: SOLD
There are moments when someone intersects your story to beckon beauty to the surface. On this canvas is a conversation between myself and a close friend represented by our combination of color and gesture. It is a story of expanding friendship and a celebration of how depth of relationship blossoms from understanding and empathetic response.
Blossoming Compassion: 18x36 inches: $650
Moving in repeating patterns
Struggling to escape the lines
Not erasing but recreating pacing
of compassionate future rhymes
This canvas holds a story of how loss can become something that surprises you with tenderness and expansion from where it once began. After time grief can open a bloom of compassionate remembrance.
Struggling to escape the lines
Not erasing but recreating pacing
of compassionate future rhymes
This canvas holds a story of how loss can become something that surprises you with tenderness and expansion from where it once began. After time grief can open a bloom of compassionate remembrance.
Be Bold: SOLD
Be bold enough to color outside the lines. Let the boxes that define you overlap and change. Have courage to let the colors of your personality shine and grow and expand. When life is hard to understand, let those who love you help connect the dots of the bigger picture.
Parameters: 16x20 inches: SOLD
Setting Parameters 1 of 3
This series is a conversation about the process of taking circumstances that are unexpected and making what we can of them. Each new layer of paint connects with something underneath providing a new shape. These shapes represent the changes and shifts in our lives. As I drew lines between color fields I began to see how I build with whatever I’m given in life. Some of life is planned. Some of life is unexpected. And there are even days that can be tragic. But together they become a life being built. Our life experiences move together to form a unique story filled with connections.
This series is a conversation about the process of taking circumstances that are unexpected and making what we can of them. Each new layer of paint connects with something underneath providing a new shape. These shapes represent the changes and shifts in our lives. As I drew lines between color fields I began to see how I build with whatever I’m given in life. Some of life is planned. Some of life is unexpected. And there are even days that can be tragic. But together they become a life being built. Our life experiences move together to form a unique story filled with connections.
Building: 16x20 inches: SOLD
Setting Parameters 3 of 3
This series is a conversation about the process of taking circumstances that are unexpected and making what we can of them. Each new layer of paint connects with something underneath providing a new shape. These shapes represent the changes and shifts in our lives. As I drew lines between color fields I began to see how I build with whatever I’m given in life. Some of life is planned. Some of life is unexpected. And there are even days that can be tragic. But together they become a life being built. Our life experiences move together to form a unique story filled with connections.
This series is a conversation about the process of taking circumstances that are unexpected and making what we can of them. Each new layer of paint connects with something underneath providing a new shape. These shapes represent the changes and shifts in our lives. As I drew lines between color fields I began to see how I build with whatever I’m given in life. Some of life is planned. Some of life is unexpected. And there are even days that can be tragic. But together they become a life being built. Our life experiences move together to form a unique story filled with connections.
Restraint: 16x20 inches: SOLD
Setting Parameters 2 of 3
This series is a conversation about the process of taking circumstances that are unexpected and making what we can of them. Each new layer of paint connects with something underneath providing a new shape. These shapes represent the changes and shifts in our lives. As I drew lines between color fields I began to see how I build with whatever I’m given in life. Some of life is planned. Some of life is unexpected. And there are even days that can be tragic. But together they become a life being built. Our life experiences move together to form a unique story filled with connections.
This series is a conversation about the process of taking circumstances that are unexpected and making what we can of them. Each new layer of paint connects with something underneath providing a new shape. These shapes represent the changes and shifts in our lives. As I drew lines between color fields I began to see how I build with whatever I’m given in life. Some of life is planned. Some of life is unexpected. And there are even days that can be tragic. But together they become a life being built. Our life experiences move together to form a unique story filled with connections.
Concentration: SOLD
Concentration is an abstract depiction of how our lives can hold times of intensity. We may feel that there is a concentration of activity (color) but there are surrounding spaces that also serve a purpose. One of those spaces is meant for rest as represented by the lower left field of white and the gray of the upper half of the artwork is symbolic of a place holder for what will come next in our lives. The bustle of current circumstances, the need to rest and the vision of the future exist together.
Aerial View: SOLD
This painting reminds me of an aerial photograph of a landscape. It is a view that often goes unseen and lends broad perspective. From above we can take in cultivated fields of boldness, gardens of joy, roads untraveled and open ground waiting for preparation. At surface level we see a glimpse of what lies ahead and that is enough. There is someone who sees the greater picture and in that reality, peace can be found.
Iowa Flint: SOLD
There's a place of serene perspective among the flint rocks that line a creek in southeast Iowa. The rocks remind us that life moves and nature keeps a record with lines and color.
Surrendered: 9x12 inches: SOLD
Letting the current carry me at a surrendered peaceful pace. Breathing in purposeful persistence and exhaling external expectations. Finding strength in soothing blues and clarity in focused gold.
Unpredictable Timelines: 11x14 inches: SOLD
Finding strength in embracing the unpredictable. Celebrating colors from my favorite rock formations. Patterns in stones remind me that there are vast layers in each of our lives. And sometimes we have to step back and look at what has happened over time to understand that progress is taking place in the present.
Passing Storm: 39x51 inches: Private Collection
Working through grief sometimes feels like a constant storm. The storm blows in, passes and returns. There are moments when color shows itself to give our heart a break from loss. Days come when the sky clears and the clouds lift. We may still feel a wash of gray settle around us but slowly become aware that space is being made for the suns return.
Overlapping Emotions: 49x63 inches: $2500
Allowing myself to process loss has exposed my canvas to something unfamiliar. Undefined shapes and bold colors overlap as do the thoughts in my own mind. Jagged edges and linear scratches give a voice to the raw reaction my body has to grief. Layers of feelings interact with one another until they have been understood.
New Dawn: 28x43 inches: SOLD
A new dawn is around the corner. Light comes over the hills into a new year with a hint of vibrancy at its edges and a touch of shadow carrying over from this past year. We can accept what was and move toward what will be with hope. Let the balance of bright and dark live together harmoniously as a new chapter begins.
Underlying Hope: 31.5x47 inches: $1100
When I look at the balance, proportion, and repetition of this piece I find myself able to take a deep breath. Light gray represents the fogginess of lingering uncertainty. We have been subject to the dark gray which represents uncontrollable circumstance. I’ve been reminded that hope (the yellow) is present even if it’s stuck on the bottom some days. My endurance has been tested but there is a bright ring of truth holding each factor in place. Some days still feel like the frustrated chaotic lines but the light is making itself known.
Breaking Through: 39x51 inches: SOLD
The dark is unsettling, heavy and present. But the light demands focus. It breaks through and holds me in stillness. Here there is time to recognize loss while simultaneously anticipating change over time. As the moon breaks through storm clouds, I take a deep breath knowing the light is present even if subtle. The contrast almost makes the light seem stronger.
Expanding: 28x40 inches: $800
Lament lends perspective
Anticipation cutting through
Expanding white toward hope-filled heights
Adjusting eyes to the dark of winter
Magnifying details and subtle textures
Balancing bright draws me toward
renewed sight
Anticipation cutting through
Expanding white toward hope-filled heights
Adjusting eyes to the dark of winter
Magnifying details and subtle textures
Balancing bright draws me toward
renewed sight
Unload: 43x71 inches: $2800
Dark blue tears, saturating grief, and shapes of sorrow tell a story of lament. In the midst of layered loss, light breaks through. There is awareness of hope present even in dark times and unforeseen circumstance.
Demarcation: 40x40 inches: SOLD
Demarcation is filled with horizontal lines and vertical junctions. The linear marks represent timelines while the vertical lines are symbolic of spiritual influence at clarifying moments. The horizontals reflect the reality of how today’s decisions emerge from yesterday’s experiences. When stepping back to take in the greater picture, we see a framework built over time. The chosen white and blue colors are meant to evoke tranquility and stability which arises when we realize how things come together in retrospect. Heavy with texture and layering, the painting notes how our lives have layers of complexity and textures of transition. The touches of warm colors are a nod to the tones that peek over the horizon during a sunrise and leave us with a feeling of comforting stillness and inspiration.
Becoming: Private Collection
The Müggel See spoke of spiritual transformation to me. I unknowingly saw myself as an icy lake with dry brittle grasses at its shore, sitting next to barren branches against an overcast sky. However, God sees the sun breaking through the clouds to melt my icy heart allowing life to flourish and move within me as life moves within water. God sees the trees blooming and grasses reseeding. The divine sees what we will become.
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