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About LYN BELISLE

the Times are not normal. And I doubt they ever will be again,

because “normal” means a way of thinking of the future and
interacting with others that doesn’t exist anymore. We are more
Artist & cautious, lonelier, less secure in our routines and less secure
the about the future in general. We are scarred by the last three

years in ways that we probably don’t yet fully realize.
Work And yet, we have discovered a resilience and an optimism that

persists. There is an innate desire to create that overcomes WHITE ANGEL

despair. Perhaps that is why my work these past three months FIRED CLAY AND
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keeps returning toward the small, spiritual, sculptural figures 10X22”
that come into existence almost unconsciously, like a poem I
know by heart.

I am not a conventionally religious person, but
this work seems for me to be a form of prayer and
meditation. In Barb Kobe’s wonderful book, The

Healing Doll Way, she writes, “In fact it is now
known by neuro-physiologists that art, prayer,
and healing all come from the same source in the

body, they all are as-sociated with similar brain
wave patterns, mind body changes and they all are
deeply connected in feeling and meaning.

None of these small figurative pieces is

particularly profound or important in a commercially
artful way, but there is something about them that
makes me smile because my universe would be

THE LISTENER incomplete without them. I’m grateful for being at a THE CALLING
8X12” point in my life where I can unapologetically create the art I love THE FIRED CLAY AND MIXED
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GATHERER
FIRED CLAY AND to do.
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This is what The Enso Circle is about – finding a personal 10” X 16”
path as an artist and following it with sure steps, knowing PRIVATE
COLLECTION
that there is deep connection between one’s practice and the
support of one’s creative community.

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