Heartful Musings: paintings

Please enjoy browsing my gallery. if you have any questions on commissioning or purchasing works or limited edition prints you can contact me at tracy_verdugo@hotmail.com
Thank you ♥

Tracy Verdugo. 2013. The Elephant and the Butterfly: A Change Whose Time has come. acrylic/mixed media on canvas. 30x30" POA

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

Tracy Verdugo. 2013. Freedom Within. acrylic/mixed media on canvas. 30x30" Sold

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”

― Martha Graham

Tracy Verdugo. 2013. I Remember You..(12"x24") acrylic on canvas. Sold.

“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.”
― Lewis Carroll

Tracy Verdugo. 2013. Bringer of Joy.60x60cm.(24"x24") acrylic on canvas. Sold.

"She owned the road
as an elephant owns the veldt
and like a big blue elephant
moved with massive grace
and dignity.”
― David Drake, Overdue Notice: Poems from the Library

Tracy Verdugo. 2013.Night Dive.acrylic and ink on canvas 36'x48'

POA

                                                                 "Let us look for secret things
                                                                     somewhere in the world
                                                                  on the blue shore of silence"
                                                                     ~Pablo Neruda

Tracy Verdugo. 2013. I have Wings to Fly. mixed media on ply. 12x12" POA

“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Tracy Verdugo. 2013.Flow release. acrylic/ink on canvas. 8x8" Sold

And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it

~Jacques Cousteau

Tracy Verdugo. 2013.Finding my Way. Mixed media on plywood. 12x12" Sold.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Tracy Verdugo. 2013. Travel Light. Mixed media on plywood. 12x12" Sold.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
~Chanakya

Tracy Verdugo. 2013.Buffalo Billy Goat Gruff. 18x13cm. POA

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius,

Tracy Verdugo. 2013. I fly in rainbows of Imperfection. Mixed media on plywood. 12x12"

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

Tracy Verdugo. 2013. El Gato Don Juan. acrylic/ink on canvas. 8x10" SOLD.

Tracy Verdugo. 2013. Pepita. acrylic/ink on canvas. 8x8"SOLD.

Tracy Verdugo. 2013. "Elefante". 9x6"SOLD.

Tracy Verdugo. 2012. I Dream of Possibility.acrylic/mixed media on canvas. 30x20"
Sold.

“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . ”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tracy Verdugo. 2012.Everything is Biographical. 91x91cm. Acrylic/mixed media on canvas. Sold.

“Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.” ― Michael Ondaatje

Tracy Verdugo. 2012.The Navigation of a Common Thread. 30x30"Acrylic/mixed media on canvas. POA

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”― Mother Teresa

Tracy Verdugo. 2012.Inherited Memories/Hidden Stories. 12x12"Acrylic/mixed media on plywood. POA

“One love, one heart, one destiny.”― Bob Marley

Tracy Verdugo. 2012. The Universal Story. 12x12" Acrylic/mixed media on plywood. POA

“Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.”― Deepak Chopra

Tracy Verdugo. 2012.How Strong the Current in this River of Wisdom. 30x30"Acrylic/mixed media on canvas. POA.

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”― Jimi Hendrix

Tracy Verdugo. 2012. Just Stop and Breathe. Acrylic/mixed media on plywood. 12x12" POA

Tracy Verdugo.2012.If I could have held it in the Breathing of a Whisper". Acrylic/mixed media on canvas.
POA

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.

― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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Tracy Verdugo. 2012. Sit Awhile by this Deep Pond of Love. Acrylic/mixed media on plywood. 30x30cm.

$280

“For a day, just for one day,

Talk about that which disturbs no one

And bring some peace into your

Beautiful eyes.” ~Hafez

Tracy Verdugo. 2011."Sacred Waters." acrylic and ink on canvas. 91x121cm. SOLD.

"I need the sea because it teaches me.
I dont know if I learn music or awareness
If it's a single wave or its vast existence"~ Pablo Neruda

Tracy Verdugo. 2011."i walk in dreams through this wide world" .2011. acrylic, ink and pencil on canvas. 30x30" SOLD

"Even after all this time
The sun never says to the Earth
"You owe me"
Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights the whole sky."~ Hafiz

Tracy Verdugo.2011. "A Small Shift in Perception." acrylic and ink on canvas. 36x36" SOLD.

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible
things before breakfast"~ Lewis Carroll

Tracy Verdugo. 2011. Days Beneath the Tropic Sun. acrylic and ink on canvas. 30x30" POA

"Keep squeezing drops of the Sun
from your prayers and work and music
And from your companions beautiful laughter"~Hafiz

Tracy Verdugo. 2011. Beneath this Calm Water. acrylic, ink and pencil on canvas. 30x30"Sold.

"and so I have to learn
to swim inside my dreams
in case the sea should come
and visit me in my sleep"~ Pablo Neruda

Tracy Verdugo. 2011. Reflected Worlds. acrylic, ink and pencil on canvas.36x18"SOLD.

"The sea, once it casts its spell
holds one in its net of wonder forever" Jacques Cousteau

Tracy Verdugo. 2011. Down by the Sea. acrylic, ink and pencil on canvas.36x48"
POA

"left my soul there, down by the sea
I lost control here, living free"~ Morcheeba

Tracy Verdugo. 2012.This Sacred Journey. Acrylic and ink on canvas. 8x16" SOLD

Tracy Verdugo. 2012. The Possibility of Pleasure. Acrylic/mixed media on plywood. 12x12". SOLD

Tracy Verdugo. 2012. The Landscape of Memory. acrylic/mixed media on plywood. 12x12" SOLD

“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.”~ Michael Ondaatje

Tracy Verdugo. 2011. Listening to the Whisper Within. acrylic/mixed media on plywood. 12x12"Sold.

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant

and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein

Tracy Verdugo. 2011.Wish.acrylic/mixed media on plywood. 12x12"SOLD

When all your desires are distilled, you will cast just two votes: to love more, and be happy.~Hafiz

Tracy Verdugo. 2011.Tread Lightly on This Earth".acrylic/mixed media on plywood. 12x12"SOLD

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.~Mother Teresa