The Heart's Secret Knowing

(c)2005 Ruth Hunter I recently sold this painting at A.T. Hun Art Gallery this past Saturday to a very nice man who is a Chaplin in the Air Force. He had originally seen the painting in my downtown studio, Hunter/Kinkel Studios in City Market~Savannah, about 3 or 4 months ago. On return to Savannah, he decided to drop by the Studio and see if it was still there...and to his delight and surprise, it was still there...waiting for him. As we talked on the phone, he asked what inspired the image. I'm always a little nervy when trying to find words to explain where my images come from because it is often a surprise even to me upon looking at the finished work the day after it's completion.

I feel the head and the heart are connected in that much of our inner 'knowing' comes from our emotions and intuitions...not just learned experience. Without the faculty of passion, intuition, love and the vast array of emotion and feeling that go with it...the cold rationale of reason would leave us empty, or more empty...depending on how you look at it...within the realm of all the
learning that life requires of us.

The head and the heart must work to together to nurture the soul.

One without the other would drive us to our own demise.

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