Living Waters

A Collection Rooted in Renewal, Presence, and the Flow of the Spirit

Living Waters was born in a deeply personal season—one full of newness, tenderness, and quiet transformation.

I painted this collection outdoors on our acreage in the Thousand Islands, during the summer after my daughter Autumn was born. She was just a few months old then, nestled nearby while I worked in the warm sunlight. The days were slow and simple, full of baby snuggles, birdsong, and the sound of paint pouring across canvas. I wasn’t trying to make a collection at first. I was just trying to breathe, to process, to return to something that felt like me again.

Each piece in Living Waters is a Dutch pour—an abstract painting created by allowing liquid acrylics to flow across the surface. The technique is unpredictable, free, and full of movement. I guided the paint but never controlled it completely, allowing the water-like forms to shape themselves. It felt like a kind of prayer—letting go of precision and letting the Spirit lead.

The colour palettes are soft and ethereal—deep ocean blues, misty greens, sandy neutrals, and gentle pinks. They move like rivers and rainfall, like the tide shifting in and out, like something breathing beneath the surface. Each canvas carries the memory of that summer: the light, the wind, the sound of my daughter’s breathing as I painted.

The name Living Waters comes from John 7:38:
"Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them."
Those words stayed with me throughout the process. They reminded me that even in seasons of exhaustion or change, life is still flowing. God's Spirit is still moving.

This collection is about that movement—about renewal, surrender, presence. It's about learning to release control, trust the process, and receive beauty in unexpected ways.

Whether hung alone or displayed as a group, each piece is an invitation to pause, to reflect, and to remember that even in the stillness, the water is always moving.