d. ellis phelps

blue owl This fun, funky ceramic owl sculpture will bring a sense of playful wisdom to any space it inhabits.

blue owl

three vessels in a wood 6X6" watercolor with mm on paper, (c) d. ellis phelps, 2025 Own this original painting now... Woods, vessels, florals, and figures, especially faces, hands, and feet are recurring images in my paintings. Trees become dryads, vessels become bodies, bodies become spirit guides, floral impressions become bounty, fertility, and beauty. In this painting, vessels seem to become trees in a dark wood, their canopies full of bountiful fruit, blooms, and leaves of many colors, reminding the viewer of the fertility, mystery, and abundant life. Let this painting bring beautiful mystery into your conscious awareness and remind you that you are surrounded by abundant life! 

three vessels in a wood

6X6" watercolor with mm on paper, (c) d. ellis phelps, 2025 Own this original painting now... Woods, vessels, florals, and figures, especially faces, hands, and feet are recurring images in my paintings. Trees become dryads, vessels become bodies, bodies become spirit…

three vessels in a wood Woods, vessels, florals, and figures, especially faces, hands, and feet are recurring images in my paintings. Trees become dryads, vessels become bodies, bodies become spirit guides, floral impressions become bounty, fertility, and beauty. In this painting, vessels seem to become trees in a dark wood, their canopies full of bountiful fruit, blooms, and leaves of many colors, reminding the viewer of the fertility, mystery, and abundant life. Let this painting bring its beautiful mystery into your conscious awareness and remind you that you are surrounded by abundant life!

three vessels in a wood

Woods, vessels, florals, and figures, especially faces, hands, and feet are recurring images in my paintings. Trees become dryads, vessels become bodies, bodies become spirit guides, floral impressions become bounty, fertility, and beauty. In this painting, vessels seem to…

light worker Indigo is the color or light frequency associated with the third eye or spiritual insight often known as intuition. It is associated with the energy of clairvoyance and connection with the divine, …

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new work: light worker Own this original now... I have been practicing light work or energy work for decades. I began with Reiki Level 1 in the early 1990s (yes. I'm from the 1900s). I have continued my studies and practice of energy healing since then and have found it to be the singular most important thing I have ever done. As a tool for healing on all levels, emotional, mental, spiritual, & physical, it is beyond comparison.

new work: light worker

Own this original now... I have been practicing light work or energy work for decades. I began with Reiki Level 1 in the early 1990s (yes. I'm from the 1900s). I have continued my studies and practice of energy healing since then and have found it to be the singular most…

light worker

Indigo is the color or light frequency associated with the third eye or spiritual insight often known as intuition. It is associated with the energy of clairvoyance and connection with the divine, the ability to see clearly from the highest vibrational frequency. When I paint, I often…

Writer’s Idea Box: writing horses Photo by Fabian Burghardt on Unsplash Writing warm ups can be of enormous value for developing fodder for future in-depth explorations. This month, I depart from the standard syllabus I usually offer to offer, instead, a rich writing warm-up exercise I call "writing horses." This exercise, it may surprise you, has nothing whatsoever to do with actual horses, the animal, but is instead named after an exercise athletes sometimes do.

Writer’s Idea Box: writing horses

Photo by Fabian Burghardt on Unsplash Writing warm ups can be of enormous value for developing fodder for future in-depth explorations. This month, I depart from the standard syllabus I usually offer to offer, instead, a rich writing warm-up exercise I call…

Please, delete this…

Image courtesy of Dibakar Roy via Unsplash Whatever message is inside this being in its personal fragrance that is the root cause and maybe unrecognised cause of suffering within me, I pray ‘Please delete this message.’ ~Mooji I have been “attending “ satsang almost daily with…

beauty heals. find it here. Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash a thing of beauty is a joy forever ~John Keats Beauty heals. Here Keats explains how: A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:Its loveliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness; but still will keepA bower quiet for us, and a sleepFull of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

beauty heals. find it here.

Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash a thing of beauty is a joy forever ~John Keats Beauty heals. Here Keats explains how: A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:Its loveliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness; but still will keepA bower quiet for us, and a…

Writer’s Idea Box: write about place

Photo by Sam Jotham Sutharson on Unsplash I simply adore a good box, a unique box. I have four boxes in which I keep jewelry: three are music boxes, one is antique and belonged to my great-grandmother, one is mid-century gold and was given to me by my father. I…

exuberance: two pots with flowers This playful floral abstract will bring a sense of ease to  your space in vibrant multi-colored exuberance!

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This piece is now showing at the San Antonio Ecumenical Center in the "Art Heals Hears" show, opening Sept. 11. Please contact the curator, Lejla Cenanovic if you would like to own the original: 210.616.0885https://formidablewoman.org/product/exuberance/

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Call for submissions: random beauty ii, deadline Dec. 31, 25 but submit now as work is being published upon acceptance.

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Oil painting of a Southwestern desert landscape. A stretch of open land glows under low evening light, with distant mountains and soft clouds above. Painted in an impressionist style with bold brushwork and warm, vibrant tones

"Golden Hour"
Oil on Canvas, 18x24

Based on a photo I took while driving through New Mexico. Using impressionist brushwork and a vivid palette, I aimed to capture the fleeting warmth of light on open land.

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blue forest Please note: this original watercolor is now showing at the San Antonio Ecumenical Center. Please contact art curator, Lejla Cenanovic with interest: 210.784.7653 Proceeds benefit the Ecumenical Center. This cool blue and green original watercolor seems to invite the viewer into the deep silence of the woods where, if the viewer listens closely, sounds of wild birds and breeze will soothe and delight.

blue forest

Please note: this original watercolor is now showing at the San Antonio Ecumenical Center. Please contact art curator, Lejla Cenanovic with interest: 210.784.7653 Proceeds benefit the Ecumenical Center. This cool blue and green original watercolor seems to invite the viewer into the…

gleaning the journals: a meditation circular meditation for clarity, 2012 I'm delighted to have found this journal page from 2012 on which I've practiced a form of writing meditation, this time seeking clarity. I had forgotten all about this way of working. I remember it being very helpful, so I'm happy to share it with you here, tho I do not remember who taught it to me.

gleaning the journals: a meditation

circular meditation for clarity, 2012 I'm delighted to have found this journal page from 2012 on which I've practiced a form of writing meditation, this time seeking clarity. I had forgotten all about this way of working. I remember it being very helpful, so I'm…

vessel with orbs ii This original watercolor on paper with mixed media  reads like an abstract floral full of life and color that speaks to the omnipresence of the essential being, bringing a sense of protection and well-being into the space it inhabits.

vessel with orbs ii

This original watercolor on paper with mixed media  reads like an abstract floral full of life and color that speaks to the omnipresence of the essential being, bringing a sense of protection and well-being into the space it inhabits.

what she holds, a poetic memoir

(c) d. ellis phelps 2020 what she holds is my poetic memoir. It is a transformative work of writing as the healing process and for me the work of reconciliation. Here is the first poem: uninvitedborn my breath my body( uninvited ) into this:she left youin your…

Watercolor painting: new work. Available.

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Read my heart-warming story based on events I lived about learning what it means to love while caring for an aging parent.

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Ballet of the Abyss
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Watercolor: the process

Four videos: one painting. Enjoy! One (C) d. ellis phelps Two (c) d. ellis phelps Three (c) d. ellis phelps

Writer’s idea Box: bonus prompt!

Cibolo Nature Center (c) d. ellis phelps If you have already subscribed to the Writer's Idea Box, THANK YOU! If you haven't subscribed to the Writer's Idea Box, now is the time! For a $10 annual subscription, you will receive a monthly workshop syllabus that…

Writer’s Idea Box: the epistolary form

Photo by sue hughes on Unsplash Letter writing is fast becoming a lost art-form: the handwritten lengthy missive from far away for which one waits and waits to arrive in high anticipation of news from loved-ones. Once, the only way to receive news from far…

gleaning the journals: an artist purges

collage #1 (c) d. ellis phelps 2013 I have a stack, several linear feet, of journals in which I have written, recorded life events, done dream-work, and processed emotional growth work for decades. Finally, I am ready to release them. And so, here is the…